Episode 13 - The Truth Behind Sustainable Food Packaging with Dan Kurzrock

In this episode, we chat with Dan Kurzrock, the CEO of Regrained, a company that is working hard to find sustainable solutions for food waste and packaging waste. If you’ve been frustrated with the non-recyclable and non-compostable food packaging winding up in your garbage, this is the episode for you.

Dan Kurzrock is the co-founder and Chief Grain Officer of ReGrained. Dan founded ReGrained out of his hobby for homebrewing beer, where he first discovered that “spent” grain could be given a delicious second life. He is now obsessed with the impact edible upcycling and closing nutrient loops can have on our food system. As Chief Grain Officer, Dan is “Mr. Outside” for ReGrained, handling all elements of growing the business. Dan holds an Economics degree from UCLA and an MBA in Sustainable Management from Presidio Graduate School.

In this episode we discuss:

• Why finding a sustainable food packaging solution is so complex
• How compostable food packaging works
• The issues we may not realize with compostable food packaging
• What innovative solutions are being worked on right now
• How consumers can get more involved in the fight for sustainable food packaging

Show Notes:

• Regrained
• OSC2 Packaging Collaborative
• Elk Packaging