ERI Adds Rhonda Grady to Staff

Electronic Recyclers International (ERI), Fresno, Calif., has named Rhonda Grady as its director of environmental protection, health and safety.

In that position, Grady will oversee regulatory and environmental audits of ERI’s downstream vendors with the goal of ensuring compliance with environmental regulations and operating practices that meet ERI’s standards.

Grady has more than 27 years of experience in the hazardous waste, solid waste and recycling industries providing environmental and regulatory compliance support to field operations. She has previously been employed in the environmental departments at Waste Management for more than nine years and at Browning Ferris Industries (BFI) for 17 years. 

Most recently, Grady held the position of director of environmental protection for Waste Management’s Eastern Group, consisting of 13 states in the Northeastern United States. She managed a staff of 26 people who supported and coordinated environmental program implementation, provided regulatory support and guidance, evaluated applicability of new regulations, and audited, assessed and measured environmental performance at more than 200 operating facilities.

“Rhonda is one of the premier environmental protection specialists in our country today,” says John S. Shegerian, chairman and CEO of ERI.  “She has a tremendous track record of success managing voluntary environmental audits of downstream vendors to ensure the highest possible level of quality and green behavior is being observed every step of the way.  We are extremely proud to have her on our team.”

Says Grady, “With ERI I feel I’ve found an organization that is in synch with my career-long efforts to ensure safe and planet friendly environmental operations and policies. It’s very rewarding to be made part of a team that is so in touch with its ‘green DNA’ and wants to take its environmental responsibility to the next level by ensuring that all the organizations it works with are similarly conscientious.”  

Fresno-based ERI de-manufactures and recycles televisions, computer monitors, computers and other types of electronic equipment, processing more than 140 million pounds annually at its six locations in California, Washington, Colorado, Indianapolis, Massachusetts and Texas, according to the company.