About · Zero Global Waste

The company

Built to answer a simple question.

Zero Global Waste licenses a patented technology that takes municipal waste and turns it into solid fuel, recovered materials, and water, with no landfill and no incineration.

Through our affiliated companies in the United States, we also bring a separate capability to governments and industry: the safe, verified destruction of medical waste and PFAS.

President and CEO

Jeffory D. Blackard

Jeffory D. Blackard builds things, and for most of his career he has been chasing one question: can a place grow without using up what is around it?

He started close to home. On the Texas coast, he preserved natural shoreline and created new marine habitat. Through the Delehide Cove Protection and Restoration Project, he donated a 32-acre island that became the Robert Moore Wildlife Sanctuary, and the project earned the 2005 National Wetlands Conservation Award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, part of the Department of the Interior. He also built a freshwater lake for migratory birds.

Croatia showed him what that looks like at the scale of a town. Its coastal villages, built from stone, walked rather than driven, and set close to the land and water, take very little from the place around them. He brought that home as Adriatica in McKinney, Texas, a village that works like its own small ecosystem: what people need is close, so they drive less, build less, and leave more of the land alone.

In Brazil, he helped found Amazon Outreach, which began with one medical riverboat and has since brought care to more than 330,000 people across the basin, communities that live as part of the rainforest rather than against it. His work in the region has also helped preserve a million acres of rainforest.

That work reaches well beyond the Amazon. Through Amazi Water he has helped bring clean water to 1.6 million people in Burundi, and with e3 Partners his work spans more than 50 countries. For Jeff, people and land have never been separate causes.

Zero Global Waste is where the question goes next, aimed at one of the most urgent problems the world has: what to do with its waste.

"True progress requires protecting the environment, not sacrificing it."

Pattern Breaker

Progress and preservation were never a choice.

From the farmland north of Dallas to the Amazon, the Texas coast, and the landfills of Eastern Europe, the idea is the same: growth and the natural world do not have to compete. Zero Global Waste is that idea carried to its logical end.

Pattern Breaker. 5 min 46 sec.

Shared vision

The people who back this share one goal.

Zero Global Waste is supported by a board and a group of shareholders who came to it for the same reason Jeff did. They have seen the landfills filling, the plastic reaching the water, and the cities asking for capacity that does not exist. They put their names and their resources behind a way out.

Their impact is measured in the same units ours is: tonnes that never went into the ground, coastline that stayed clean, and a system that is ready for the places that need it. The vision is a greener world, and it is shared by everyone who has helped build this.

What we believe

Waste is a resource in the wrong place.

Every tonne that goes into a landfill is a tonne of fuel, metal, and material that someone paid to throw away and will pay again to manage for decades. We think that is the wrong deal. Our job is to make the right one available: to cities that are out of room, to coastlines that are catching what the rest of the world lets go, and to communities that have never had waste collection at all.

We are not here to make recycling slightly better. We are here to make the landfill unnecessary.

Waste in. Resources out.

Built to answer a simple question.

Jeffory D. Blackard

Progress and preservation were never a choice.

The people who back this share one goal.

Waste is a resource in the wrong place.

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