The Evolution of the Waste Liquid Recycling Industry with Enfinite's Executive Director Scott Parker
Host Sean Grady welcomes Scott Parker, Executive Director of Enfinite—the Industrial Liquid Recycling Association—to discuss the organization’s rebrand from NORA and its mission to connect, educate, and protect the industrial liquid recycling industry. Parker shares Enfinite’s history, key regulatory advocacy work, challenges like PFAS management and driver shortages, and how members are embracing technology and sustainability.
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Scott D. Parker
Executive Director
Scott D. Parker has served as the Executive Director of ENFINITE: The Industrial Liquid Recyclers Association since 2002. The association has over 340 member companies. ENFINITE connects, educates and protects the industrial liquid recycling industry, and adjacent services. ENFINITE members do seemingly impossible work. We take the industrial liquid waste that burdens partner companies and transform it into usable products. Through innovative purification processes we recycle, reuse and dispose of these fluids—creating a circular economy that’s environmentally friendly. Born out of necessity, we responded to the EPA initial misclassification of oil as hazardous waste in 1984. And we’ve aided in the development of their used oil management standards ever since. For 40 years, we’ve refined our inventive process for sustainability that respects our planet and industry.
Parker has managed various environmental trade associations for 30 years. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Buy Recycled Business Alliance, as Co-Chairman of America Recycles Day and as a judge for the White House’s Greening the Government contest. Parker earned his Bachelor of Business Administration (Industrial Marketing Major) from James Madison University.
