Tony Jordan

Co-Owner and “Plastic Expert”

Being green has been being me since I was young. In elementary school, I joined our earth club and started a group of people picking up trash instead of playing games during recess. In middle school, I learned about recycling through online resources. In high school, I built solar panels and created business plans for green initiatives in my area. In college, I chose one of them brought it to life as a non profit with the help of UMKC Enactus. This project recycled about a 100 pounds of plastic into engaging, colorful, and durable dry erase boards for teachers at a low cost.

After graduating I missed the project and ability to make a difference through recycling. I bought the equipment and have started small scale recycling with my partner to help create a difference in our local plastic waste.

“I hate that over 95% of recycling in our bins goes to the land fill”

Nicole Dover

Co-Owner and Community Outreach/Marketing

Since the pandemic I took more of an interest in helping the environment. It started when I wanted to help the UMKC Enactus team make big impacts and they asked for my help writing proposals for a big company on how they could become greener. After that I worked with the team on smaller projects around plastic waste then went in many different directions including plarn(plastic bag yarn) to make bed roles for the homeless. Then the team finally decided on Generation Green where we made a better dry erase board out of 100% recycled materials. Somehow I was put in charge of it to because Tony had big ideas but a lack of time management. With the help of the team we saw great impacts for class rooms around Kansas City.

After I graduated I still enjoyed being green so in my spare time I created small products from materials other makers hadn’t used. I make soy wax candles with upcycled glass jars, coasters out of wine corks, and wax melts. Then my partner wanted to get serious about recycling when he graduated too. So we dove in together and I help keep him accountable and push Recyclverse forward.