“Over 11 million tons of recyclable clothing, shoes, and textiles end up in landfills every year. There is a great supply chain out there to help prevent that from happening.”

Ben was born and raised in Clinton, Iowa, a small town on the Mississippi. He graduated from Iowa State University with a bachelor’s of science degree in Business & Marketing. He then spent 18 great years working for CH Robinson, a global third-party logistics company specializing in new office openings, business development, and team development. Throughout that time, he lived and worked all over the place: Chicago, Austin, Monterey, Sacramento, Pasadena, and Reno NV in the U.S.; but also in France, Belgium, and the Netherlands. It was while living in Antwerp that he completed his executive MBA. He and his wife then decided to settle in Colorado 4+ years ago and live in southwest Littleton. They have a six-year-old daughter (Elizabeth) and a 10-year-old son (Noah). He officially opened The Junkluggers of Colorado in January of 2021 and has spent the ensuing 1 ½ years learning anything and everything possible about recycling and reuse of unwanted items in the Greater Denver Metro area.

SHOW HIGHLIGHTS & TAKEAWAYS:

  • Junkluggers provides a much-needed service that recycles many of the items that most thrift stores can’t accept.
  • How Junkluggers sorts, donates, and recycles the items they retrieve.
  • How the “downstream” process of donating certain items works.
  • eWaste events.
  • How Junkluggers partners with arc and other local recycling companies, nonprofits, HOAs, and more!
  • Furniture is one number one least recycled items, accounting for 10 million tons of household waste.
  • How to use organizations such as GreenSheen to recycle paint.