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Multimatic Motorsports recently welcomed Bayshore Recycling as a new sponsoring partner for the 2010 Boss 302R Continental Tire Sport Car Challenge campaign. Valerie Montecalvo, the President of Bayshore Recycling, tells us about the company and its growing relationship with Multimatic Motorsports.
Q: Can you tell us a little about Bayshore Recycling’s history and operations?
VM: Bayshore Recycling is a full-service recycling center located on the waterfront in central New Jersey. It was born out of our early work as municipal road and site contractors in the 1980s. Our initial plan was to create aggregate and stone products for the heavy highway industry. Over the years, Bayshore Recycling has expanded the recycling operations to include construction and demolition debris, scrap-metal, and thermal treatment of petroleum contaminated soils. As our vision continues to grow, the next challenge will be organic waste. We want to take renewable materials from the waste stream and create bio fuels from them. In this technology, lays our interest in the motorsport industry. We aspire to promote innovations that will help make racing greener.
Q: So Bayshore Recycling is not your typical paper, can and bottle recycling facility?
VM: No it isn’t. Obviously bottles and cans are what most people think of when they hear the term “recycling,” but really there is so much more to it. It’s really all about reclaiming natural resources through products that have already been made. For instance, in a highway or a bridge you already have asphalt and concrete, all 100% are recyclable. In the demolition process, whether you’re taking down a bridge or redoing a highway, all those materials can be excavated and taken back to our recycling center. Here we process them for reuse. By sending the material through a crushing and grinding operation, it is converted back into usable material for the same application. So it goes back into the highways where it came from. It’s pretty amazing! It is really a very easy operation and almost impractical to think that these materials, which are 100% reclaimable, were once sent to landfills.
Q: How did you get involved with Multimatic?
VM: We have been looking at Multimatic’s engineering activities to compliment some of the technologies that Bayshore Recycling is involved in. We felt there was a synergy between the two companies and some of the technology and bio-fuel opportunities that will be developed at our facility. By partnering with Multimatic Motorsports, we get an ideal platform for us get our name out there; but more importantly, to promote how easy it is to increase or add recycling to their daily routines. Whether it’s racing or building a highway, everyone is responsible for protecting our fragile environment. We are very excited at Bayshore to be partners with and a sponsor of Multimatic Motorsports. This gives us the opportunity to develop a more intimate relationship with the team, and we get to see their genius at work. We are delighted to be a part of it.
Q: How do you see the relationship between Bayshore Recycling with Multimatic growing in the future?
VM: We are looking to Multimatic to partner with us on some revolutionary engineering projects. As a rather large recycling center, we are huge energy consumers. Our operations require a large amount of natural gas to remediate the contaminated soils. We also use significant amounts of electricity to run the crushing and grinding operation and the sorting and separating operation. We are looking to Multimatic’s engineering team to help us evaluate some of the new wind. Water technologies are coming to the forefront of alternative energy production. Since a lot of these projects are in the prototype stage, we’re hoping that at some point Multimatic and Bayshore will work together to build some prototypes. We will need to evaluate these energy production alternatives and see how they will work to help increase our recycling through the use of renewable resources.
There is also a second phase to the making of green energy. There is so much talk in our industry about biomass (organic material) and wood waste being turned into either liquid fuel or a gas. These alternative fuels could be a synthetic equivalent to the natural gas that we now use to heat our homes. Bayshore Recycling is looking at technologies that in the future will be able to create the synthetic gas from products that come into our facility through the waste stream. It is our hope that Multimatic and their engineering expertise may be able to help with the development of these projects.
Q: The company is currently based in New Jersey but are there plans to expand across the US?
VM: Bayshore Recycling is based in the Tri-state area, very close to Manhattan. Our facility has a unique location. We are on the waterfront, with active rail and located close to all major roadways. I am proud to say that we are a model recycling facility, and happily we have been enjoying some notable popularity lately. There are been numerous requests from other states asking us to come and recreate a facility like we have here in New Jersey. They too want to build a multidimensional facility where all different types of products can be recycled. Lisa Jackson, former Commissioner of the Department of Environmental Protection in New Jersey, affectionately coined Bayshore Recycling as the “the mega mall of recycling.” Now with Ms. Jackson as the Administrator of the USEPA, it is our hope that her visionary guidance will allow for many similar facilities to be built across the United States. Bayshore’s vision will become a global recycling example to the world.
To learn more about Bayshore Recycling, please visit the company website at www.bayshorerecycling.com Bayshore Recycling is committed to helping make the world more sustainable through recycling. |
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