Vast Enterprises LLC is the recipient of an inaugural Leadership in Sustainability Award from the Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce and the U.S. Green Building Council —Minnesota Chapter (USGBC-Minnesota). 
VAST Enterprises, which manufactures paver bricks in an eco-friendly composite of recycled materials, was honored for Best Green Market Development. This award honors an organization whose market focus on producing a product, process or service, exhibits measurable, significant environmental and economic benefits.
VAST developed and patented material science technology that transforms post-consumer recycled rubber and plastics into composite masonry, a new green building material. VAST engineered the world's first rubber-plastic composite with up to 95 percent recycled content and the performance characteristics of masonry. VAST Composite Pavers offer the strength, durability, natural appearance and design versatility to replace molded concrete and clay brick in hardscape, landscape, permeable and flat-roof applications.
Every 10,000 square feet of VAST pavers use rubber and plastics recycled from 5,000 tires and 150,000 plastic containers that would otherwise end up in U.S. landfills. Installing 10,000 square feet of VAST pavers instead of concrete pavers prevents more than 395,000 pounds of CO2 emissions. VAST installations to date have kept more than four million pounds of rubber and plastics out of landfills and more than 1.7 million pounds CO2 out of the atmosphere.
"VAST composite masonry products are green and more than green," Andy Vander Woude, LEED AP, chief executive officer, VAST Enterprises, LLC, said in a press release. "We design them to outperform the building products they replace. That's why construction industry professionals and experts in materials science recognize VAST's superiority."
