Gary serves as Vice President of Operations for the Bayshore Family of Companies in Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. Bayshore is one of the largest recyclers in the Northeast, managing nine separate, but related recycling operations on its 58 acre Eco-Complex and Energy Campus. Gary assists in the management of facility-wide operations and completing full build-out toward realizing the corporate vision of running 100% green businesses powered 100% by renewable energy. Bayshore recycles:
• Buildings, Roads, Parking Lots, Bridges;
• Non-Hazardous Petroleum Impacted Soil;
• Curbside Commodities: Bottles, Cans, Plastic;
• Houses and Construction/Demolition Debris;
• Traditional Metals (cooper, steel, brass);
• Dredge Material;
• Consumer Electronics;
• Approved for Food Waste.
Beyond day-to-day management responsibilities at Bayshore, Gary is or recently was actively engaged in a wide array of non-profit efforts on behalf of the Company to advance environmental protection and sustainability including serving as:
• Immediate past Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Sustainable Jersey Program which now actively involves 467 New Jersey towns, 1,219 schools and 418 registered School Districts;
• Immediate past Co-Chair of the New Jersey Climate Change Alliance;
• Former Co-Chair of the North Jersey Transportation Planning Authority’s (NJTPA’s) Resilient Task Force of the Together North Jersey Planning Program;
• Co-Chair of the Association of New Jersey Recyclers Legislative Committee;
• Former Governor Appointed Member of the State Advisory Council on Solid Waste Management;
• Former Governor Appointed Member and Vice-Chair of the New Jersey Plastics Advisory Council;
• First Vice Chair of the Middlesex County Solid Waste Advisory Council;
• Sitting member of the Woodbridge Economic Development Corporation;
• Member of the Woodbridge Township Brownfield Development Area Steering Committee;
• Member of the Woodbridge Township Zero Waste Task Force;
• Member of the Woodbridge Township Mayor’s Advisory Council on Education;
• Member of the Steering Committee of the National Waste & Recycling Association New Jersey Chapter;
• Former Member, Legislative Committee of the National Construction & Demolition Recycling Association (CDRA).
Gary joined Bayshore following retirement after 30 years of service at the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. He served as the agency’s Chief of Staff for 10 years under five different DEP Commissioners and six New Jersey Governors with a staff of 3,500 employees. He served functionally as Chairman of the Board of the New Jersey Water Supply Authority; liaison member of the New Jersey Corporation for Advanced Technology (NJCAT), liaison to the Commerce and Economic Growth Commission and coordinator of New Jersey’s homeland security planning efforts for 10 years post 9/11 for the Chemical, Petroleum, Nuclear, Water, Wastewater, Dams, Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Sectors. In this capacity, Best Security Practices were implemented at thousands of critical infrastructure sites all across New Jersey.
Prior to this he served as Assistant Commissioner for the Department’s core permitting programs for three years. In this role he managed five Divisions within the NJDEP including Air Pollution Control Permitting, Water Quality Permitting, Solid and Hazardous Waste, Radiation Protection, and Pollution Prevention and Permit Coordination. Gary spent his first 17 years within the Solid Waste and Recycling Program where he also served as Director and managed all solid and hazardous waste planning, permitting, recycling, financial assistance, economic regulation and technical assistance programs.
Gary was born in Paterson, NJ, graduated from neighboring Hawthorne High School and received his Bachelor of Science and Masters’ Degrees in Environmental Planning from Rutgers University. He has been married to his Rutgers sweetheart Roseanne for the past 45 years. Gary and Roseanne have four children, Karl, Gail, Lynn and Mary, three sons-in-law Damian, Duffy and Alex and four Grandchildren Faye, Elton, Dallen James and Lucy Mae. He was humbly honored over his career with the following recognition awards:
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Distinguished Service Award (1990)
• Hall of Distinguished Alumni Induction, Rutgers, Cook College (2001)
• Governor’s Citation for Distinguished Service in Homeland Security (2001)
• New Jersey Homeland Security Person of the Year Award (2001)
• Good Government Award, New Jersey Food Council (2007)
• National Construction & Demolition Recycling Association Member of the Year Award (2014)
• New Jersey Corporate Citizen of the Year, NJ League of Municipalities (2015)
• Association of New Jersey Recyclers Lifetime Achievement “Rex Award” (2016)
• EarthShare Environmental Stewardship Lifetime Achievement Award (2019)
