Woody Filley

Woody Filley, a 2020 Vision Fellow, managed a project focused on the construction and demolition waste (C&D waste) portion of the Island’s waste stream. The goals were to quantify and categorize it, evaluate past and present practices of handling and disposal, and to work with stakeholders in developing pilot programs to redirect as much as possible to recycling, reuse and other innovative ways of reduction. The Oversight Committee for this project was comprised of: Greg Orcutt (Habitat for Humanity), Don Hatch (Martha’s Vineyard Refuse District), John Abrams (South Mountain Company (SMC)), and Newell Isbell Shinn (SMC). In addition to other work experience and community involvement, Woody served as the Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School’s Technology Director for 20 years. His first job here in the early 1980s was running the newly created Martha’s Vineyard Recycling Committee. Thereafter, he went on to serve as the Edgartown Representative to the Refuse Committee (the precursor to the MVRD).