Jennifer Porter Appointed as GBB Sustainability Officer

She will oversee internal sustainability efforts and lead sustainability planning assignments for clients. Using the triple-bottom line perspective – people, planet, profit – she will expand initiatives that positively impact the company through its operations. She will also continue to spearhead activities that increase diversity, inclusion, equity, and justice within GBB and for clients.

GBB Adds Four New Staff to its Multi-Disciplinary Team

GBB announces the addition of four members to its dynamic and entrepreneurial team of solid waste management professionals (from left to right):

• Eugenia Manwelyan – Senior Consultant
• Theresa Evans – Senior Consultant
• Danielle Moyer – Consultant I
• Allyson Del Rosario – Business Manager

GBB Promotes Corinne Rico to Senior Project Manager and Ricky Phillips to Consultant II

Valuable and key members of GBB’s multi-disciplinary team with a diverse background and experience get well-deserved promotions.

Innovative Sustainable Business Leaders Submit Proposals to Help Achieve Landfill Diversion Goals

Kent County, MI receives nine responses to Request for Proposals for anchor tenant at Sustainable Business Park.

Kent County, MI Seeks Innovative Waste Conversion Project for Its Sustainable Business Park

RFP issued internationally to help identify an anchor tenant at its Sustainable Business Park in West Michigan and to help the region meet its landfill diversion goals.

Two GBB Consultants Achieve Zero Waste Certifications

As part of GBB’s commitment to environmental sustainability, responsible solid waste management and ongoing professional development for team members, Jennifer Porter (GBB Vice President) and Corinne Rico (GBB Project Manager) have been certified, respectively, as Practitioner in Zero Waste Principles and Practices and TRUE (Total Resource Use and Efficiency) Advisor.

SWANA Recognizes Harvey Gershman with 2019 Lawrence Lecture Award

On October 23, 2019, the Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) issued a press release announcing that Harvey Gershman, GBB Founder Owner Associate and Co-Founder, had been presented with the 2019 Lawrence Lecture Award. See the SWANA press release

Harvey Gershman with David Biderman, SWANA’s Executive Director and CEO.

GBB Promotes Sustainability Leader Jennifer F. Porter to Vice President

A GBB Senior Project Manager since 2017, she has 17+ years of experience on sustainability initiatives with extensive expertise in solid waste management, recycling, and composting program evaluation and development.

Two Young Professionals Join GBB: Eric Garvey as Project Engineer I and Ricky Phillips as an Intern

An important part of GBB’s corporate culture is to offer opportunities to the next generation of individuals with a passion for sustainable development & the environment.

Partial End of GBB’s Guam Solid Waste Management Receivership

GBB’s 11-year federal receivership over Guam’s solid waste and disposal services has partially ended per a court order issued by the U.S. District Court of Guam. Having achieved a complete 180-degree turnaround of the island’s solid waste system, GBB will continue its technical work to complete the post-closure plan for the Ordot Dump.