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Meet Todd Sutton

The Waste Sleuth

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By Team Planet Green
Silver Spring, MD, USA | Mon Jul 07, 2008 07:16 AM ET

Todd Sutton


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Todd Sutton has devoted his life to finding the best environmental solution to disposing of society's discards and "garbage". A highly respected professional in the recycling and solid waste field, Sutton has more than 16 years experience in the environmental field. He has developed an extensive knowledge of more than 350 materials... or what most would call "stuff" – from cans to plastic to computers to car parts.

Sutton's Waste Sleuth expertise comes from years of researching vast mysteries of waste to find the environmentally correct way to reuse or dispose of problematic substances: No matter what size, shape, form or smell! From trucks filled with miscellaneous plastic gizmos, to dumpsters filled with off-spec licorice, he leaves no synthetic rock unturned during his quest to find the green answer to a disposal challenge.

Sutton has worked with a wide variety of businesses, institutions, and personalities: From large corporate boards, small business managers, government officials, enforcement agents, and the average citizen, regardless of who he works for his personality and passion for the environment is so engaging it becomes contagious to the point that it incites one to take immediate action.

An experienced public speaker who has made hundreds of presentations on topics ranging from home composting to developing informational recycling databases, Sutton is able to present and explain complicated ideas in a way practically anyone can grasp. He has managed regional media outreach campaigns in the San Francisco Bay area by utilizing radio, print, public transit and movie theaters. Sutton has produced more than eight comprehensive guides to recycling and reuse, and developed one of the nation's best and most comprehensive reuse and recycling databases, The Alameda County Recycling Information Hotline.

Sutton has a degree in Business Administration and Marketing from California State University, Sacramento. He was employed for more than thirteen years at StopWaste.Org, an Alameda County public agency as the Program Manager of the Alameda County Reuse and Recycling Information program. A current board member of the California Resource Recovery Association (California's reuse and recycling association), he has also completed the Solid Waste Management program at U.C. Berkeley extension and is a certified Master Gardener and Master Composter.

To really understand Sutton and his passion for the environment one should note that after college he lived for a full year in a tent in the forest. This gave him his inspiration for doing his best to help maintain the gift of our planet. When he isn't being Waste Sleuth, Sutton enjoys cooking, dredging for gold, hiking, snow camping, gardening, music, the history of words, and of course learning about how "things" work. Sutton likes to say he "knows a little about a lot of things and a lot about a few" – and that is the never ending challenge for Waste Sleuth!

Todd Sutton owns WasteSleuth.com, providing technical assistance services to businesses, organizations and public agencies. WasteSleuth.com specializes in engineering solutions that make sense environmentally – Smart solutions that focus on sustainability and resource efficiency – forward thinking solutions that save money and improve an organization’s environmental performance.

 
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Thursday, November 26 / 01:00am

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Episode 13: Shredded Steel

Resident Waste Sleuth Todd Sutton follows scrap steel from the junkyard to the steel mill where it finds new life, Salvage Queen Evette Rios transforms an old fireplace door into a multi functional table and solar power heats things up in New Mexico.

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Episode 13: Shredded Steel

Resident Waste Sleuth Todd Sutton follows scrap steel from the junkyard to the steel mill where it finds new life, Salvage Queen Evette Rios transforms an old fireplace door into a multi functional table and solar power heats things up in New Mexico.

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Episode 13: Shredded Steel

Resident Waste Sleuth Todd Sutton follows scrap steel from the junkyard to the steel mill where it finds new life, Salvage Queen Evette Rios transforms an old fireplace door into a multi functional table and solar power heats things up in New Mexico.

 
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