ZeroLandfill™ Co-founder, Jeff Krejci, began in 2004 to pick up expired carpet specification books and recycle during sales calls. The books would get broken down into the separate recycling streams. The carpet samples were shipped to InterfaceFLOR for recycling and the cardboard books were recycled locally. Mike Dungan, Amanda Dempsey and Krejci met to come up with a better way.
In 2006, ZeroLandfill™ began in the back parking lot of a furniture dealership in Cleveland, OH. What initially began as a recycling effort, quickly turned into a community reuse project. Christy Gray observed that artists and educators would love the materials.
Discovering the value of the materials to the creative community, the ZeroLandfill™ project team invited artists and arts educators to harvest materials for their own projects and educational materials. Over 300,000 lbs. later, ZeroLandfill™ program fills the gaps for educators material needs and creates behavior change for architects and interior designers as what was formally considered waste is redirected into the community.
next project site... Pittsburgh is meeting today to launch our program & Marco will help
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