ABOUT US

About Us

EcoHub is the only sustainable product manufacturer that provides economic development, environmental sustainability, and lower costs to cities, companies, and communities.


Unlike the world’s current approach to garbage handling, EcoHub repurposes up to 100% of the waste stream into value added products. Here is how EcoHub puts every material within the waste stream to its highest and best use for both local economies and the environment.

Our Team

George Gitschel
Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer


Mr. George Gitschel is the Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of EcoHub. With over 40 years in the waste management, recycling, sustainable products manufacturing, and conversion technology industries, Mr. Gitschel is the inventor of the MaxDiverter™ and EcoHub™ material separation, recovery and manufacturing processes. Mr. Gitschel currently has 30 issued or allowed patents (U.S., China, Hong Kong, Macau, Mexico, Japan, India, Canada, Brazil, and the European Union) covering over 600 claims. Mr. Gitschel has 2 additional US patents pending on the related system technologies and more to follow. Additionally, Mr. Gitschel has 4 Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) nationalization patent applications filed in India, Brazil, and Canada currently in Office Action. Mr. Gitschel has invested 25+ years developing EcoHub’s material sorting/recovery system and the EcoHub closed loop circular economy manufacturing and conversation technology concept, systems, and methods. Mr. Gitschel was also the Founder (2009 to 2015) and CEO of Organic Energy Corporation. OEC was an organic waste to renewable energy company. Prior to founding EcoHub, Mr. Gitschel was the Founder and CEO of Rose Waste Systems, Inc., a leading municipal solid waste and recycling equipment, design, systems integration and supply company. Under Mr. Gitschel’s leadership, the company designed and installed integrated systems for over 60 waste and recycling plants around the world. Mr. Gitschel holds a B.S. in Commerce from the University of Santa Clara.

Lee Reisinger
CTO of the EcoTowel™️, EcoTissue™️ and EcoBoard™ Divisions of EcoHub


Mr. Reisinger has over 50 years of leadership experience in the consumer, forest products and alternative energy industries, domestically and internationally, for ReiTech, Industra, and the Procter & Gamble Company, where he was Director of Engineering. His background includes a consistent record of achievement in process development, project management, international management, business strategic planning, organizational consulting, venture development and acquisitions. Mr. Reisinger’s current focus is on the design and implementation of through-air-drying (TAD) tissue and towel technologies and machines. He has led the design and construction of several TAD machines. He is on the Advisory Board for Tissue Analytica, an NC State spin-off company that focuses on the physical attributes and price for current tissue and towel products in the marketplace.

Jeff Smith

Stragetic Advisor


Mr. Smith was the founder and the partner in charge of the environmental practice at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, where he worked on financings, underwritings and mergers and acquisitions nationally and internationally in all industries, and provided day-to-day counsel on environmental management and corporate governance issues, environmental issues of interest to the SEC, shareholder relations involving environmental matters and environmental litigation. He is now leading an initiative at Fordham Law School on sustainability studies and is also Senior Counsel at Sidley Austin LLP. Mr. Smith frequently speaks on environmental issues, including guest lectures at Fordham, Harvard, Columbia, Penn, Georgetown, NYU and Pace law schools. He was the first Chairman of the ABA’s Special Committee on Environmental Disclosure. Mr. Smith received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Tom Darcy

EVP of Government Affairs


After 10-years with Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), Tom joined IBM, where he spent 25 years. Among the initial offerings developed under his leadership, were a number of technology-based innovations which led to industry transformations in banking, financial services, education, government and publishing. Employing advanced technologies Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Machine Learning and Virtual/Augmented Realities (VR/AR), his teams designed a variety of product offerings which today represent a multi-billion-dollar business for IBM internationally. His project teams have driven measurable improvements in areas such as advanced analytics, big data, and a variety of centers of excellence generating a host of new living-wage jobs across the country. A firm believer in giving back, Tom is a 5-time recipient of Presidential citations for community service and volunteering. In addition to leading multiple Smarter Cities programs, Tom is the principal architect behind IBM’s Centers-of-Excellence business model and authored IBM’s “Smarter Waste Management” publication.

SVP of Business Development


Our SVP of Business Development is a 30-year waste industry veteran covering a wide range of activities, including environmental compliance and infrastructure development, as well as market and business development for both traditional waste management activities and emerging digital efficiency platforms. He is a subject matter expert on franchises and has extensive experience in addressing sustainability objectives through public-private partnering, MRF design and operations, permitting, and regulatory development. Our VP holds a B.S. in Environmental Sciences and a MBA.

Bob Ehlers

EVP of Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS)


Since the early 1980s, Mr. Ehlers has been an innovator at the leading edge of Environmental Management Systems evolution. As founder and CEO of Cody Ehlers Group, Mr. Ehlers performed hundreds of comprehensive EHS compliance audits and benchmarking of corporate EHS management systems for some of the largest energy infrastructure construction projects undertaken in the last decade. Mr. Ehlers has coordinated multi-media environmental permitting of multiple new, complex industrial facilities throughout the United States, and has successfully completed hundreds of site investigation and remediation projects through state and federal industrial and hazardous waste site programs such as Superfund, Brownfields, etc. Mr. Ehlers’s environmental remediation expertise allows EcoHub to redevelop inactive, impaired Brownfields sites into productive centers of environmental excellence and economic growth. Mr. Ehlers has a BS Biology Fairfield University and a Masters Degree in Environmental Engineering from SUNY – Stony Brook.

Our Values

EcoHub was created out of a desire to change the world by transforming how it discards, disposes, repurposes and consumes garbage. We take pride in our ability to simplify lifestyles, educate communities, raise living standards, and develop regional economies. By positively impacting the way the world deals with garbage, we hope to one day cure nations and regions of challenging, systemic issues like poverty, mass-pollution, and disease.

CREATION


EcoHub is a value creator for citizens, communities, corporations and the whole waste management industry. We go beyond “zero waste” by finding ways to repurpose up to 100% of the waste stream, putting everything that comes through our facilities to its highest and best use. This commitment extends to how we impact the world around us. From the way we form partnerships to how we invest in communities, EcoHub creates lasting value and impact in everything that we do.

PIONEERING


EcoHub is founded on a meticulous, never-ending desire to push the boundaries of what is possible. We strive to create systemic change in the way the world produces, disposes of, and interacts with waste. EcoHub is the beginning of a movement – an Environmental Revolution that goes beyond preserving our ecological resources. We will change the world, and in the process create new opportunities, change communities and provide economic development for millions around the globe.

INTEGRITY


We conduct our business with highest amount of personal and professional integrity. We believe in transparency and education, and continuously work with our partners, customers and community members to ensure that our services exceed their expectations. In everything that we do, EcoHub will pursue a commitment to high moral, ethical, and environmental standards.

COMMUNITY & EMPOWERMENT


EcoHub believes in “Paying it Forward” to the communities we serve, and to the world at large. We treat our employees as partners, knowing that their empowerment is key to their success, and the success of our business and the community. At EcoHub, empowerment starts and stops with education, fair treatment, accountability, and opportunity for all.

Waste Recycling FAQs

  • Can you tell me more about EcoHub?

    EcoHub is the only sustainable product manufacturer that provides economic development, environmental sustainability, and lower costs to cities, companies, and communities.


    Unlike the world’s current approach to garbage handling, EcoHub views 100% of the waste stream as a resource. That is why we collect every piece of trash in one single bin – no longer do you have to separate plastics or cardboard from food waste, we can do all of that for you. Our sustainable product manufacturing process repurposes nearly 100% of the waste stream into value-added products. By placing the focus on putting every piece of garbage to its highest and best use, EcoHub delivers benefits to both the economy and the environment. This is the beginning of a movement – an Environmental Revolution that changes the way the world consumes and reuses resources. Our goal is to create a waste free world.

  • What is EcoHub's Closed Loop System?

    EcoHub’s closed-loop system provides ultimate sustainability™ and the most environmentally healthy collection path ever conceived.


    It’s all made possible by EcoHub’s model of circular integration™, which takes in 100% of the waste stream as a resource and manufactures it into new sustainable products that can be resold back into the local community. This entire process occurs in one location, providing the greatest environmental benefit, while creating new opportunity for local communities.

  • What are the benefits of EcoHub?

    EcoHub will Reduce Landfilling and/or Recycling Costs by 50% to 75% or more. EcoHub fully monetizes the discarded materials stream through an onsite closed-loop backend manufacturing and conversion technology suite, delivering to existing waste recycling companies and government agencies additional new free cash flow per ton processed.


    EcoHub is Reliable. At the heart of the EcoHub is the MaxDiverter™; the first true automated mixed waste separation system. EcoHub’s MaxDiverter is guaranteed and bonded to mechanically separate and recover all elements of the waste stream at 95%+ performance efficiency to 95%+ purity with 97% operational reliability. Value-added manufacturing processes, which are co-located with the MaxDiverter on our eco-industrial campuses, utilize proven, well-established manufacturing and conversion technologies and NASA-originated technologies repurposed for civilian application.


    Environmental Solution. Each 2,000 ton/day EcoHub will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 2.5 million tons of CO2e. Coupled with emissions reductions from processing recovered vs. virgin materials, these reductions are equivalent of taking up to 800K cars off the road. Eliminating extra collection routes and minimizing the transport of recycled products further reduces emissions and energy use, as well as reduces wear and tear on residential streets.


    Experienced Team. EcoHub’s principals have almost 280 years combined experience in solid waste management, manufacturing, conversion technologies, advanced technology development and deployment, and environmental market transformation. They possess excellent contacts throughout the industry, as well as with municipal and national governments across the world.

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