Van Dyk Recycling Solutions adds to sales team

After seven years as a project manager for Van Dyk Recycling Solutions, Norwalk, Connecticut, Chris Sansevieri is taking a position on the company’s sales team. He will cover Southern California, Nevada, Utah and Hawaii in his new role.

Sansevieri, who is based out of Los Angeles and can be reached at 203-561-6209 and csansevieri@vdrs.com, brings a unique perspective to the team, having managed some of Van Dyk’s biggest plant builds in recent years, the company says. He has overseen construction of new builds, complicated retrofits and projects with aggressive timelines. Most recently, Sansevieri supervised the installation of Van Dyk’s largest project to date, a 110-ton-per-hour municipal solid waste (MSW) sorting system, requiring intricate phasing and extensive coordination with the client and building contractors.

With in-depth knowledge of installation challenges, Sansevieri has a detailed understanding of client concerns.

“It’s one thing to have a solution to a client’s problem,” he says, “but to know how to smartly execute it so that results are delivered efficiently is a separate skill that is learned through experience. In the end, it is always a great feeling seeing a project through all the milestones, looking back on the challenges we overcame and seeing our clients get the end-product they trusted us with providing. I am here to help them succeed.”

Sansevieri says he thinks the recycling industry is at an inflection point. “We are starting to see AI [artificial intelligence] meaningfully enter our industry, and while it is the latest buzzword, I think we’re going to find its real value is improving the profitability of existing facilities to help pay the bills of relatively costly capture of EPR [extended producer responsibility] single use plastics that drive the next phase in the capture of those materials. It will complement our advancements in automation, our development of lower maintenance and more robust screens, and it will fine-tune our already dependable optical sorters. Ultimately, the goal is increased capture rates, reduced cost per ton and maximum uptime for our clients, and I’m excited to be a part of it all.”