About ReSource St. Louis

Board Members

In the Spring of 2003, a ceiling tile recycling presentation by Armstrong World Industries inspired David Bertorelli and John Prater of ERAC (Enterprise Rent-A-Car) to consider partnering with other corporations, business owners and organizations to achieve the minimum standards to recover ceiling tiles.  Shortly after the presentation they invited a small group of facility managers, engineers and architects to gather at Enterprise Rent-A-Car to discuss how to enhance recycling efforts and materials reuse in the St. Louis Region.  From that initial meeting, and through strong support from the local IFMA (International Facilities Management Association) chapter, a group was formed with the intent of reducing the amount of construction and demolition "waste" ending up in local landfills.  With the large number of major corporate headquarters located in the bi-state St. Louis region, each challenged with being good corporate citizens and improving their surrounding communities, leverage was built which allowed each to work with partnered manufacturers to consolidate, recycle, and often share construction materials.  Most of the efforts of the group to reuse and recycle materials were through a cumbersome e-mail list-serv.  Additionally, at times it became necessary to have participants in the program store items off-site at the expense of other participants.  Finally it was decided that a website would be the most efficient and effective mechanism for getting materials reused or recycled.
 
Through a generous grant from the St. Louis-Jefferson County Solid Waste District, this group, now incorporated as St. Louis Sustainable Buildings, created this website to provide, not only an online materials exchange, but also resource for the region about sustainable practices for the built environment that includes information on energy, clean air and water and other sustainable building practices. 

During the process of creating the website and branding the organization, the Executive Board unanimously agreed to change the name of the group to ReSource St. Louis.  Further decisions were made to establish that the organization would become largely web based and provide most of the primary services to its internal and external customers through that medium.
 
ReSource St. Louis members have grown to be a very committed and resourceful organization that spans private and public, profit and non-profit, and large and small company sectors.  Many complementary organizations look to the SLSBC for reuse and recycling information.  While providing a true example of the positive things that can happen when the private and public sector work in concert, we hope you find the site to be a useful and valuable resource.

The Executive Board of ReSource St. Louis wants all of the organization’s actions and information to be as true and accurate as possible.  The Board is committed to assuring the integrity of the materials posted and that participants are honest and fair.  Unless the integrity of the organization and the site is well established and maintained as positive, it will not be successful. Serious repercussions will occur in the event that anyone jeopardizes the integrity of the website or ReSource St. Louis’ programs and information.