Suppressing the Dust Kicked Up By 2020 (and Moving Forward)!

From the desk of our founder, Chris Rider:

It’s certainly been a trying year for everyone here domestically, and abroad. For us at Global Environmental Solutions, we’ve long entered a “new year” full of optimism and hope. And that won’t change. A challenge is literally at the root of all of our work.

Upon entering 2020 as a “new year” we had opportunities, plans, and great expectations for GES products and solutions. We approach each year open to new discoveries and opportunities. This year the universe definitely had other plans and different opportunities.
 
As we now enter December 2020 – the final month in this ongoing annual chapter, we hope that we’ve seen the last of what has been an exceptionally tumultuous year – and moment in our collective existence. With the pandemic we saw many small business closings, protests that sometimes led to riots, political tension, etc. In short, it hasn’t been an easy year no matter the vantage point.
 
Domestically and internationally the pandemic squelched or delayed many of our plans. Worldwide distribution became a challenge and our partners across the globe were feeling the weight of this.
 
In every situation there is a downside and a upside. Our upside is, GES soldiered on through the pandemic inflicted year that marked 2020 – a historic part of history that nobody will ever forget. We have added to our USA distributor network and welcomed GrowBIG…ogh as our West Coast distributor. GrowBIG…ogh has really embraced the technology and is running in high gear. We’re excited for the prospects of this relationship and growing others as well.
 
We’re hopeful that 2021 will evolve to the point whereby the pandemic will be a thing of the past or at least be under control, and, together, we’ll all grow in a positive and forwardly progressive way.

We’re up for the challenge. And we’ll continue to soldier on – no matter the hurdles “life” throws at us.

If you’ve got a project you’re in the midst of plotting and need help in managing the physical properties of the terrain of the project, give us a shout. We look forward to hearing from you in the new year and beyond.

Here’s to a happy and healthful new year from our family to yours.

GES: For the Earth, with the Earth in mind.

Employee Spotlight: Rose Cyr

We’re a unique company here at Global Environmental Solutions. And we’re passionate about the niche nature of our work, as well as the inimitable people that make up our team. We couldn’t do what we do with each and every one of their distinct skillsets. We’re a family, and the culture that exists within our walls is exactly that – a family. We help each other to succeed in any way that we possibly can. Further, we treat our customers with the same deal of respect and care. All the people that lend to the day to day successes of our operation are what has enabled us to be around for as long as we have!

Thus, we’d love to shed some light on some of the invaluable people that make us, us!

Let’s all give a round of applause to today’s spotlight team member, Rose Cyr! 


Name: Rose Cyr
Title: Inside Sales & Marketing Manager


How long have you been working at Global Environmental Solutions, and what brought you here initially?

It will be 4 years on December 5, 2020! I was approached by Jean LoPizzo, GES Director of Operations. Jean and I have worked together over the past 30 years at two different medical supply companies. Although DirtGlue was already a well-known industry leader in the development and distribution of green soil stabilization solutions to a host of industrial for both wind and water erosion control, the principals felt there was a need to refocus on refreshing the brand as an environmentally safe and conscious company.

What is your favorite thing about working at GES? What keeps you getting up and punching into work every morning?

My favorite thing about working at GES is that the possibilities of our products is endless! I never really thought about dust and erosion control until working here! There are so many markets for these products. I learn about a new application on a consistent basis, from industrial use down to the do-it-yourself homeowner. Working closely with Chris Rider, Founder & Chief Technology Officer, I have learned that every challenge is worth investigating and most times we can provide a solution for our customer!

What is one thing you want your current customers / potential customers to know about you (as an individual)? What makes you, you?

Superior customer service is number one! I expect GES to provide our customers as well as our prospects with the highest level of customer service that we expect to receive from our suppliers. From the moment a lead is generated, we reach out in a timely fashion and follow through with that lead until product is applied and our customer is happy! Our policy of continuous follow up is key to customer satisfaction.

What’s one memorable moment that you’ve experienced at GES that sticks out in your mind?

I was fortunate enough to travel to Australia and visit with our rest-of-world distribution team. It was so beneficial and interesting to meet the team and review their GES projects with them and to share marketing ideas. I am so grateful I got the chance to meet face-to-face with these folks before our world turned upside down by this Covid-19 pandemic.

What is one thing you want your current customers / potential customers to know about soil management / control and your work at GES? Why is this work important?

We are proud to offer eco-friendly products to the market and we continue to research & develop new forward-thinking soil stabilization and dust control products.

In your opinion, what is one thing we can all do to make the earth a cleaner, healthier place?

Humans continue to impact the physical environment in many ways which has resulted in climate change, soil erosion, poor air quality, and undrinkable water. Be proactive when researching products to ensure they are safe for the environment. If you wouldn’t use the product at your home and around your family, don’t use it for your commercial project. We are proud to offer products that are for the earth, with the earth in mind.


Global Environmental Solutions, LLC, founded in 2001 (originally as DirtGlue Enterprises, LLC). Since inception, we’ve long been engaged in the science of high-technology soil stabilization. We take great pride in developing and providing green soil stabilization solutions to a host of industries for both wind and water erosion control – while eliminating health hazards associated with fugitive dust and noxious odors. Our corporate headquarters are located in Salem, New Hampshire with several warehouse locations throughout the United States and sales offices around the world!

Our aim is to provide you, the customer, with the best possible eco-friendly products to get the job done right the first time, from inception to completion, and in a timely, cost-efficient, and ecologically compliant manner. To accomplish this, our job is to listen to your unique challenge(s), which is facilitated by each and every one of our incredible employees. When you’re ready to chat and tackle that project, we’re ready to hear from you!

10 Reasons To Choose Global Environmental Solutions for your Soil Stabilizing Project

1. Our products are environmentally safe – developed for the earth, with the earth in mind.


2. We’ve been working within the soil stabilization industry for 20 years now (originally started as DirtGlue Enterprises – which is still the forefront namesake of our line of terrain management products).


3. We listen. GES is not going to provide you with a cookie-cutter, out-of-the-box solution. We’re going to hear what your issue at hand is.


4. We believe in science (and use it as a tool). Following the “listening” portion above, we take the education you’ve granted us from your pain and customize the right product driven by scientific research and modernized technology utilization. The idea is to come up with an application that solves any variable that might exist and pose a challenge to the fruitful culmination and inherent solution of your project.


5. We like to play in the dirt. With experience, comes experience. And with that experience and understanding, we can make better informed decisions on how to manage the “dirt” we’re working with…


6. Consider our DirtGlue® line of products if you have a need in any of these areas:

  • Permanent dust control
  • Embankment stabilization
  • Sub-grade stabilization
  • “Green” paving using industrial polymer as a bonding agent
  • All soil stabilizing requirements
  • Erosion control
  • Stockpile capping
  • And really any terrain management/control
  • solution you may be on the hunt for…


7. We have sales and service locations worldwide, so, we’re global, and readily available for you whenever, and wherever you need it!


8. We are a veteran owned business.


9. Our goal and operative mission has been – since day one – to provide the best possible results in an industry where ‘good’ just isn’t good enough. We strive for technical and ecological superiority; every product, every project, all the time.


10. We solve problems related to soil management – and we enjoy it.

As Winter Sets in, Put DGCool™ to Work for Your Cold Weather Soil Management Application

Here in the Northeast (and elsewhere as well), autumn is quickly giving way to much cooler temperature. Summer has long left us, and, as we prepare for the winter months ahead, plans to manage and best serve the earth around us are still being brainstormed. Taking control of the soil and terrain on our properties isn’t particular easy as it begins to stiffen with temperatures getting colder and colder by the day. And, solutions served up in the spring and summer months aren’t going to work quite as well with a colder environment at play.

If you didn’t hear, we introduced one of our latest product’s DGCool™, last winter, and the reviews have been quite positive (read about one such application here). Just because the temperatures plummet, doesn’t mean we can retire for the winter and hibernate until spring…

It’s time to get familiar with DGCool™. Now through the end of the year, when you place your order for DGCool™ to solve your soil management problem, we’ll take 15% off of your cost!

So what is DGCool™?

DGCool™ polymer emulsion is a powerful, one-of-a-kind, high-tech bonding agent specifically engineered to bond soil particles together and stand up to cold temperatures. DGCool™ penetrates the surface, binding with the soil to form a tough but flexible layer of protection. Applications can be made at temperatures down to 32°F / 0°C. Combining superior film strength and adhesive properties, DGCool™ is the ideal solution for stockpile capping, stabilizing slopes and embankments in colder environments. DGCool® leaves a flexible crust on the surface of the soil that allows the crust to give if the soil settles and reduces the risk of crust cracking either from settling, or from very cold temperatures relative to most other polymer soil stabilization products.

If you’re faced with any of these application challenges, DGCool™ might very well be the best solution to solve your problem:

  • Surface / spray on application
  • Erosion control
  • Stockpile capping / stockpile sealing
  • SWPP management plans embankment stabilization contaminated soil containment
  • Eliminating TSS in storm water run-off dust control on non-driving surfaces
  • Replacing conventional tackifier in hydroseeding applications polymer.

We will also be offering a 15% discount on orders placed now through the end of this year. 

The benefits of  DGCool™ include:

  • Dust control management
  • Erosion control
  • Stockpile capping and sealing
  • Sediment control
  • Much stronger and longer lasting than conventional tackifier in hydroseeding applications
  • Environmentally friendly
  • Can be applied in temperatures as cold as 32°F / 0°C

And further, as is standard in all of our DirtGlue® polymers, there exists no harmful chemicals and it will not adversely affect people, animals or aquatic life. We create our products with the earth, with the earth in mind!

And, again, as a reminder, through the end of this calendar year, we will be offering a 15% discount on all DGCool™ orders placed. 

So, if you think DGCool™ might be the solution for you, let’s talk. There’s no better time than now to put it to work for you!

Typical industries served:

  • Parks & Recreation
  • Road Building
  • Do It Yourself
  • Energy
  • Mining
  • Military
  • Construction
  • Landscaping

If you’ve got a need, we want to hear about it, and will do our very best to walk you in the right direction to a proper remedial solution. Give us a call today!

Road Base Stabilization and Drainage Management

Roads. They’re a part of our everyday lives. Getting us from Point A to Point B and everywhere in-between. That said, not all roads are created equal… Today, we’d like to talk about the proper construction of a roadway and how best to manage the stabilization and drainage properties of a road as an inherent piece of the initial puzzle…

Roads are directly affected by the base plot of land they’re built on. They’re also affected by direct environmental factors such as nearby runoff and drainage factors. Therefore, and it’s likely obvious, the way you construct and maintain the terrain that immediately abuts any piece of a road is imperative. You can’t just flatten the surface and pour the asphalt. Sure, that’s the very thought a lot of us have when we think about a road but, there’s far more to it – at least if you’re being smart about it… The soil should be made from aggregate of the proper gradation and it should be derived from crushed rock.

Road Building vs. Paving

Let’s start at the beginning. As mentioned, the main issue at hand is that most people simply look at the pavement and think “ROAD,” because that’s what shows. That’s “what’s on the surface.” With this attitude the end result is that they end up relying too much on – the pavement – without considering the other more important aspects that should go into any paving project. A road is not pavement. A road is a system of which the pavement is the top layer (much like the roof on a house is the top of a complete system of foundation, frame, walls, roof, etc. that make up the whole). See where we’re at with our thinking here?

In order to provide a pavement (which is what GES has created with our Polymer Pavement System), with good functionality along with a good lifespan, we need first to ensure a good base and good drainage, thus not relying on the pavement for strength but rather for consolidation of the surface aggregate such that there is no mud in the wet season and no dust in the dry season…

If the surface to be paved requires better load bearing, this can be accomplished using geosynthetics. The side benefit of the geosynthetics is better drainage as well. Have questions about geosynthetics? Call us. We have a warehouse full of answers.

When it comes to road building versus simply paving, it’s possible to have 2 – 3 inches of pavement (polymer, asphalt or concrete), which will support nearly any load if the base and subgrade are stable and well drained. It’s not feasible to rely on 4 inches or more to support any load if the base and or subgrade are poorly stabilized or poorly drained.

With Global Environmental Solutions, you’re taking a giant leap towards constructing roadways that are created with a correct, proactive approach the first time. We proved products that serve roads that are built to last.

And again, remember, a road is more than just a surface you drive on, and said strip of pavement is potentially compromised by any surrounding ecological variable. Look around. Is there a parcel of land running downward towards the roadway? If yes, that’s direct route for runoff and erosion to occur – eating away at your road and creating potentially disastrous driving conditions.

Products for consideration:

  • DirtGlue Polymer®
  • TerraDry®
  • DustLess®
  • DirtGlueDry®
  • PotHoleGlue™
  • DGE Polymer Pavement System™

Contact GES today. We’ll help you design, plan, and construct the best road you can build, at a cost you can appreciate. Not only are you saving upfront, but on the backend as well. Forward thinking is the most sensible thinking. And thinking ahead leads to the road best travelled. (Or is it, best road travelled? See what we did there?…)