SES adds vice president of sales

Simplified Environmental Solutions (SES), a St. Louis-based provider of recycling, consulting and landfill diversion services, has named Dave Nelson as its new vice president of sales.

Nelson brings more than 30 years of environmental services sector experience to SES. He previously worked for FCC Environmental, Covanta (now known as Reworld) and the Clean Earth business unit of Enviri Corp.

“Dave has a track record and experience that is uniquely qualified to build customized zero waste to landfill strategies for manufacturers, consumer goods producers and industrial clients of all shapes and sizes,” says Chad DeGraffenreid, co-CEO of SES. “He’s a natural sales leader who looks at each discussion as an opportunity to improve someone’s business, and not as a transaction.”

“SES is creating a whole new economy in the manufacturing and waste industries that appeals to an organization’s sustainability mission, as well as its bottom line," Nelson adds. "I’ve never seen a service provider so dedicated to new and innovative ways to achieve zero waste to landfill and to do so in a creative way that focuses equally on preventing the creation of waste as well as the second life of waste products.”

In addition to its St. Louis headquarters, SES recently opened locations in Salt Lake City and Kansas City, Missouri, with additional expansion being considered elsewhere throughout the United States.

SES says each of its locations will offer the company’s full range of services, including nonhazardous secondary material processing, recycling, reuse of raw material waste and scrap, controlled disposal of finished goods, food waste reuse and composting and onsite waste and recycling consultation.

“The regional expansion throughout the country and the dedication to building custom programs for each partner is inspiring, especially when we solve production challenges on the front end to minimize the creation of waste and are then able to turn that waste product into something commercially viable or otherwise useful,” Nelson says.