[SPN-Discussion] Greentech Investors Forum--Dec. 11--EcoHub Recyles 95% of MSW from One Bin, One Truck & One Route
Gelvin Stevenson
gelvin.stevenson at gmail.com
Tue Dec 1 15:14:42 PST 2015
*EcoHub LLC and the End of Garbage: EcoHub™ Uses One Bin, One Truck and One
Route and the Multi-Patented “MaxDiverter™” System To Process 95% of
Municipal Solid Waste*
Municipalities across the U.S. are implementing regulations that require
substantial increases in waste recycling/diversion rates to be achieved in
the near future. This provides an opportunity to derive substantial value
from that waste—but for one thing. The main barrier to realizing the full
economic and environmental value of recovering material from the municipal
waste stream is our current inability to properly separate the wide variety
of materials that are thrown away. EcoHub LLC’s patented separation
technology solves this problem and will allow municipalities to meet their
diversion requirements without requiring residents or businesses to
separate waste. Moreover, the entire operation will generate tax revenues
and create up to 800 jobs for every 2,000 tons per day (tpd) of Municipal
Solid Waste (MSW) processed.
EcoHub is in an advanced stage of negotiations for a 20-year solid waste
management contracts with three major US Cities.
Date: Friday, December 11, 2015
Time: 8:00am – 10:00am
Organizer: Gelvin Stevenson, PhD
Sponsor and Host: Crowell & Moring. LLC
Location: 590 Madison Ave. at 57th Street, southwest corner, 22nd floor
EcoHub LLC is an eco-industrial park development company that specializes
in mining the municipal solid waste stream to create value added products
and economic development, while minimizing landfill disposal. The heart of
the EcoHub system is the MaxDiverter™ technology. MaxDiverter separates
Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) into 30+ clean and consistent material
feedstock streams (guaranteed by the manufacturers, system integrator and a
major EPC contractor) that are then converted into:
Ø Food contact approved paper products, including cups, clamshells, tissue
and paper towels
Ø Lightweight wall panels, furniture and substrates from cardboard
Ø Outdoor construction materials from off-spec plastics
Ø Conventional recyclables (metals, glass, #1 & #2 plastics)
Ø Synthetic fuels, e.g., crude oil & syngas, from rubber, leather &
synthetic textiles
Ø Renewable biogas and biofuel, including “drop-in” liquid fuels (diesel
and ethanol); from yard & food wastes, and
Ø Soil amendments from left over organic materials
EcoHub’s technology enables immense environmental and energy-related
benefits:
Ø Guaranteed to separate and divert 75% or more of municipal solid waste
from landfills;
Ø Reduces greenhouse gas emissions by simplifying MSW collection and
diverting the organic portion of MSW from landfills;
Ø Eliminates the attraction of vermin and other disease vectors by
separating the wet organic fraction from MSW and converting it into biogas,
liquid fuels, fertilizer and soil amendments;
Ø Reduces costs incurred by—and in some cases provides net funds
to—municipalities and other governmental authorities;
Ø Extends the life of landfills, which are very difficult to permit;
Ø Greatly simplifies the MSW collection process, allowing single can or
container collection for residential and commercial MSW; and
Ø May be used to extract value from MSW already buried in landfills
EcoHub has established strong partnerships with a number of manufacturing
and waste-to-fuels companies including:
Ø Green Box for conversion of fiber to food contact packaging and plastics
to diesel;
Ø JET Recycling America, which converts off-spec plastics into outdoor
construction products
Ø ECOR for converting corrugated cardboard & textiles into wallboard,
substrates and furniture
Ø Meridian Bioenergy for anaerobic digestion of wet organics
Ø Solena or comparable green waste to bio-fuel conversion technology
Ø EWS for bioreactor composting of organics and
Ø Green EnviroTech or Green Box or other conversion technology for
plastics-to-oil
The Company also has a number of other key allies including:
Ø ACS Industrial Services for engineering, procurement and construction;
Ø Bluescope Buildings for building systems
Ø IBM for its Smarter Cities initiative and deep analytics;
Ø Vecoplan for the integration of the MaxDiverter™ system;
Ø CellMark for recyclable commodities brokerage; and
Ø Raymond James and Morgan Stanley for project finance.
Most of these companies have entered into off-take contracts with EcoHub
and will co-locate their facilities with EcoHub’s MaxDiverter™ system. All
of the equipment and construction partners have entered into bonded
agreements warranting that they or their equipment can separate materials
to 95% purity and maintain 97% uptime.
EcoHub’s has a MaxDiverter v1 reference facility operating in Roseville,
CA, owned by the Western Placer County Waste Management Authority. This
2,400 tpd mixed waste processing and recovery reference facility was
designed and built by EcoHub Founder and CEO, Mr. Gitschel in 2005-2006,
when he served as CEO of Rose Waste Systems. At the time, it was the most
advanced and unique Mixed Waste Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) in the
United States. The net result was a doubling of the recovery and diversion
at the facility, while eliminating a second processing shift. However,
without the MaxDiverter, which Mr. Gitschel has developed over the past
several decades, 55% of the inbound waste continues to the landfill. Using
MaxDiverter, separation and diversion is guaranteed to be at least 75% and
could approach 95%.
Current prospects are strong. EcoHub has been in discussions with a number
of municipalities and States to implement its integrated separation and
waste-to-fuels solution.
Register here, at GIF's Eventbrite Site
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/greentech-investors-forum-dec-11-the-end-of-garbage-ecohub-recycles-95-of-msw-with-one-truck-one-tickets-19789426708>
Or contact Gelvin at gelvin.stevenson at gmail.com.
GIF thanks Investors Circle for its generous support, Geoff Miles and Chino
Maduagwu for developing and operating GIF’s video, social media and design
capabilities, Tonia Popke for her financial expertise, and Jesse Goldstein,
PhD, for his continued assistance.
And global opportunities are huge. While the opportunity is ripe to address
MSW diversion in the U.S. and other developed countries, a greater
opportunity exists in third world countries, where waste accumulation is a
tremendous problem and a breeding ground for disease. EcoHub’s initiatives
have the potential to make a substantial dent in worldwide waste over time,
thereby improving the quality of life for much of the world’s population.
EcoHub has a strong executive team. George Gitschel, Founder and CEO, has
over 34 years of executive experience in the solid waste industry. Mr.
Craig Harris, Director of Business Development, has 35 years in the solid
waste industry in diverse positions. Mr. Rob Watson is Chief Strategy
Officer and is the founder of the LEED Green Building Rating System.
Disclaimer: The Greentech Investors Forum (GIF) is not soliciting funds for
the presenting companies, nor is it encouraging parties to invest in them.
We try to find good companies—not necessarily good investments. They have
been advised on what is acceptable in terms of predicted results, but GIF
takes no responsibility for what they actually do, say, or how they perform
in the future. Also, for full disclosure, Jeff Smith is Counsel for EcoHub
and Gelvin Stevenson is working with them.
*Security:* If there is a problem at the Security Desk, please
contact Ellen Reilly at (212) 223-4000 <%28212%29%20895-4265> (first
choice) or Gelvin Stevenson at 917-599-6089.
*Fees:* $50, payable ahead of time or at the door. Cash or
checks and credit cards accepted.
$25 for Members of E2 or other Affiliated
Organizations
$25 for call-in. Registered call-ins will be
emailed the call-in numbers and, if available, the slides to be presented.
$20 for students and faculty.
*Agenda:* 8:00 to 8:30 - Networking
8:30 to 8:40 - Introductions
8:40 to 9:10 - Rob Watson, Chief Strategy
Officer, EcoHub
9:10 to 9:30 - George Gitschel, from Houston,
Founder and CEO, EcoHub
9:30 to 10:00 - Discussion
To register, visit this Eventbrite site Greentech Investors Forum
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or send your contact information to Gelvin Stevenson at
gelvin.stevenson at gmail.com or 917-599-6089. And contact Gelvin If you have
questions or need more information.
Bios
Mr. George Gitschel is the Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer
of EcoHub Corporation. With over 30 years in the waste management,
recycling, and conversion technology industries, George is the inventor of
the MaxDiverter™ separation process. George currently has six issued or
allowed patents covering over 120 claims and 20 additional patents pending
on the MaxDiverter™ and related technologies. Additionally, George has
Patent Cooperation Treaty nationalization filed in China, India, Japan,
Brazil, Canada, Mexico and the European Union. George has invested 20+
years developing EcoHub's system and vision. George is the driving force
behind EcoHub, an innovative collaboration of premier organizations working
together to reclaim discarded resources to achieve a waste free society.
Utilizing the MaxDiverter™ and other proven technologies, EcoHub allows for
every piece of the waste stream to be accurately diverted and re-purposed
into its highest and best use through clean and green technologies. Once
sorted, these resources streams are available to be re-purposed into new
products that will go directly to the local community--a true closed loop
system for the world's growing waste disposal problem. Prior to founding
EcoHub, George was the CEO of Rose Waste Systems, a leading municipal solid
waste equipment, design, systems integration and supply company. Under
George's leadership, the company designed and/or installed the systems for
over 60 waste and recycling plants around the globe. George holds a B.S.
in Commerce from the University of Santa Clara.
Craig F. Harris, Director of Business Development. Originally from
Wichita, Kansas, Craig F. Harris has actively pursued his commitment to the
environment for more than 35 years. An entrepreneur, Harris has applied
effective solutions and innovative concepts to recycling and waste
challenges while founding and providing leadership to six successful
companies: Compaction Limited, Waste Reduction Systems, Direct Compactor
Systems, Summit Waste, City Waste and Coastal Compaction. These companies
provided landfill operations, commercial waste collection, residential
waste collection, commercial and industrial equipment sales and rentals,
and recycling facilities in Houston, Kansas City, and Phoenix. Harris’
extensive business development, management, and finance experience, led him
to join EcoHub as Vice President-Business Development in October, 2014, to
provide strategic guidance in promoting and creating business growth by
developing and expanding collaborations both nationally and
internationally. Harris attended Wichita State University and continues to
serve his community through ongoing philanthropic endeavors.
Rob Watson is Chief Strategy Officer of EcoHub LLC. An international leader
in market transformation and green buildings, Watson is known as the
“Founding Father of LEED.” Under Rob’s direction, LEED became the largest
and fastest-growing international standard by which green buildings are
measured. Author Thomas Friedman calls Rob "one of the best environmental
minds in America."
Watson is also at the forefront of technical innovation in green buildings
and energy efficiency, serving as Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer for
PrimaFilm LLC, which has created the only thermally insulating window film
that will reduce energy losses through windows by over 50%. Prior to his
work with EcoHub, Rob launched ECON Group and EcoTech International to
implement cutting edge LEED projects in the US and China. Watson was a
Senior Scientist with the NRDC for 21 years directing the International
Energy and Green Building programs. Among numerous international awards for
his work, he is the 2013 recipient of the International Conservation Award
from the Botanical Research Institute of Texas. In 2011, he was a
semi-finalist in the international Zayed Energy Future Award for Lifetime
Achievement and was profiled on CNN International. Watson is the only
foreigner honored for Green Building Innovation by the Chinese Ministry of
Construction and received the first lifetime achievement award from the
U.S. Green Building Council in 2002.
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