At 16 Setne entered community college, using profits from fixing cars and recycling their spare parts to pay tuition. When it became apparent that his current business wouldn’t cover the cost of attending a university he again looked to expand. During regular conversations with his father (a Vibration Analyst at a sand and gravel quarry in Bridgeport, Texas) Setne had heard that rock mines would often have trouble getting rid of their waste materials. Scrap conveyor belt, scrap poly pipe, and scrap metal would pile up in the boneyard and the maintenance supervisor would get stuck calling a handful of companies to clean it up. Setne had been recycling metal for a decade now and had some experience with plastics, but rubber belting was far more difficult to handle — the industry standard at the time was simply to pay contractors to take it to a landfill. After several months of research and negotiation he worked out a way to actually buy conveyor belt, and using the profits he made from repairing a Honda S2000, he purchased his first truckload of mining waste. A bit of paperwork later, EZA Recycling Solutions was born.