Scott Gordon - Rosby Resource Recovery

Nominated by: Jim LaRue - HouseMender, Inc /Cleveland Green Building Coalition

If you decide to embark on a new career focusing on sustainability, choosing to take on the entrenched practices of the building industry is hard. One of the largest contributors to landfills is construction materials, both demolition and new construction waste. Scott chose to join Rosby`s and help them develop a new way to address this waste issue. His goal is to recycle as much of the construction waste that comes to their site as possible. He is working at this on two fronts: sorting and recycling what comes to their site and teaching builders and contractors how to reduce their waste and effectively gather any waste they generate. The dumpsters he provides symbolize a sustainable solution, not a sustainable problem.
Scott is our champion, not because he has fully succeeded in his mission, but because he continues to struggle through all the issues that must be addressed if handling of waste is to be sustainable financially as well as practically. Though builders in this ecoregion don`t know it yet, Scott is becoming their champion as well.