How to Turn Industrial Waste Into Revenue (Without Buying New Equipment)

What if waste isn't an expense — but the most underpriced revenue stream on your balance sheet? In this episode, Tom Popomaronis sits back down with Dan Kelly, Founder and CEO of ADAR Technologies, to break down why industrial operators have been leaving billions on the table for the last century — and how poultry processors, in particular, can flip a $90/ton disposal expense into a $5,000–$25,000/ton revenue stream. For decades, waste has been treated as a fixed cost — a line item nobody gets promoted for rethinking. Procurement owns the contract, Operations owns the throughput, Finance owns the capex budget, and no one owns the full waste-to-value equation. Meanwhile, the real cost of disposal is typically 3–5x what operators think they're spending once you factor in compliance, liability, hauling, labor, downtime, and lost opportunity value. ADAR Technologies is collapsing that math. By deploying its acoustic dehydration platform as Infrastructure-as-a-Service — no capex, no graveyard of depreciating hardware, just a monthly fee or per-ton usage charge — ADAR is turning poultry waste, manure, and other wet byproducts into feedstock for pet food, nutraceuticals, biofuels, and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) without destroying nutrient value through heat. In this video, you'll learn: The Hidden Cost of "Waste as Usual": Why most operators are spending 3–5x more on disposal than they realize. The Semantic Shift That Changes Everything: Why calling it "feedstock" instead of "waste" triggers an entirely different set of organizational questions. The Three-Vertical Problem: How procurement, operations, and finance silos have quietly kept the waste-to-value conversation dead inside large corporations for 100 years. Infrastructure-as-a-Service in Practice: Why ADAR brings the equipment, the customer brings the waste stream, and capex never enters the conversation. From $3B Expense to $180B Opportunity: How the poultry chicken-waste example reframes the entire industrial byproduct economy. Why the Tailwinds Are Real: Regulatory pressure in the EU, Delta committing 10% SAF by 2030, and why doing nothing is now the riskier choice. "Waste is just a resource that you have not figured out how to sell yet." — Dan Kelly, Founder & CEO, ADAR Technologies Connect with ADAR Technologies: Website: https://www.adartech.com/ LinkedIn:   / dankelly1   #poultryprocessing #wastetorevenue #circulareconomy #ADAR #DanKelly #acousticdehydration #foodandbeverage #sustainableaviationfuel #infrastructureasaservice #industrialinnovation