About 1-800-Recycling

1-800-Recycling.com is a dynamic recycling and green living-focused website that makes recycling, conserving, reusing and living wisely easy.

1-800-Recycling.com features comprehensive recycling location database that gives the user the ability to easily assemble a recycling to-do list. The database is location based, and aims to make your recycling needs as easy as possible, whether you’re clearing out the house during spring cleaning or simply looking to recycle a few shopping bags.

1-800-Recycling.com is regularly updated with important how-to directives aimed at increasing recycling awareness. Visit regularly for eco-friendly stories, ideas, news, anecdotes and initiatives. By changing the way we think, we can change the way we live.

John Shegerian
Founder, CEO
John Shegerian is the Chairman and CEO of Electronic Recyclers International® (ERI). Established in 2002, ERI is an electronic waste collector and recycler, specializing in the environmentally safe and socially responsible dismantling of electronic items such as computers, televisions and monitors. John was also co-founder and CMO of financialaid.com, one of the most successful student loan companies in the country. While at financialaid.com, John created rateyourcampus.com (a college student polling and feedback community), which then led to the creation of campusdirt.com (which evolved into the most relevant and trafficked college search engine). Last but not least, campusclix.com was created and became one of the first college social networking properties on the Web.

In October 2004, John and his partners sold financialaid.com and all the aforementioned affiliated properties to Education Lending Group, which was purchased for $400M in February 2005 by CIT (NYSE: CIT). John went on to create and found addicted.com, a comprehensive, interactive website dedicated to helping those struggling with the disease of addiction.

Jesse Stallone
President, Co-Founder
Jesse Stallone has spent the majority of his career working in the environmental field dealing with operational activities and driving strategic change initiatives. He is the VP of Business Development and Sustainability for Electronic Recyclers International. Most recently, Jesse was director of sustainability and strategic planning at Allied Waste industries, responsible for sustainability and innovation business development initiatives. Prior to this, he served as a Six Sigma Black Belt working on continuous improvement programs dealing with waste reduction for large U.S.-based retailers.

Eric Rawn
Chief Technology Officer
Eric Rawn is founder and President of BCT Consulting, Inc. Established in 1996, BCT is one of California’s most advanced network consulting firms, with more than 1,200 clients. Eric has been serving as CTO of Electronic Recyclers International since 2004.

Si Robins
Editor-in-Chief
Si Robins is an editor and writer based in Phoenix, AZ. With experience in magazine and Web writing, editing and content development, he has developed a varied set of skills and topics of interest. Prior to his work on 1-800-RECYCLING.com and Greenager, Si covered eco-friendly design, sustainability and many other topics over the course of his career. Si studied journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University, and won multiple awards for stories written during his time there.

Eric Husted
Graphic & Multimedia Designer
Eric Husted is the Graphic & Multimedia Designer at BCT Consulting. Eric has brought new ideas, direction and a youthful talent to the company. Eric performs graphic and website design, video editing and animation for dozens of new and ongoing projects in the company, and works as a graphic and multimedia designer at Electronic Recyclers International.

Paul Williams
Director of Media Relations
Paul Williams formed MediaLine Communications in 1996 to provide strategic messaging and consulting services to environmental, health, non-profit, government, entertainment and consumer-oriented organizations interested in delivering powerful and meaningful messages to large target audiences.

Media relations and publicity campaigns managed by Paul have been seen in over 60 countries and translated into more than 14 different languages. He received his dual bachelor’s degrees in communications and writing from the University California at San Diego.