Jesse Stedman has a diversion project underway in south Denver. Plastics that might have been labeled as waste and thrown into a dumpster are instead being refashioned and thrown into a disc golf basket.
Stedman started playing disc golf in 2008, as a ninth grader in Northern California. Over time, he started to put the pieces together: “There are usable materials ending up in landfills and we’re creating new materials from nonrenewable resources that are gonna run out,” he said. “So why don’t we use this stuff that’s already in existence first?”
He waited for a decade thinking someone else would eventually put the same pieces together. Eventually he decided he needed to take the future into his own hands and create it…