Kathryn Slaughter is the Founder and Principal Materials Management Strategist of VERT Sites, LLC. She has successfully helped Colorado municipalities, general contractors, event producers, and businesses achieve operational efficiencies and cost savings through waste diversion, resource recovery, and zero waste goal setting and implementation.
Kathryn has been involved in the solid waste industry for over 10 years. She has held a Class B CDL and served as a Recycling Coordinator for a Colorado ski resort, where she co-managed 17 department material streams. Following that role, she was a Sustainability Manager of a Breckenridge fractional real-estate company, where she collaborated with the development and operational teams on incorporating waste diversion during the construction of the newest resort, the Grand Colorado on Peak 8, and with various other remodels at other resorts. Lastly, she was an Account Executive for a material hauler, where she managed roll-off dumpster and provided zero waste event operational support before founding VERT Sites, LLC.
She is a TRUE Zero Waste Advisor through Green Building Certification, Inc. (GBCI) and is a Certified Zero Waste Practitioner through the Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA). She currently is the Vice-Chair of Recycle Colorado’s C&D Council and is a Specialty Contractor Board Member of the Association of General Contractors Colorado Chapter. She serves on the Summit County’s Zero Waste Force, Eagle County’s C&D Sub-Committee, and Boulders’ Demolition and Deconstruction Working Group, and the Town of Breckenridge’s Events Committee.
