Email Craig Coker Mr. Coker has over 30 years experience in the planning, permitting, design, construction and operation of organics recycling facilities processing animal manures, animal mortalities, food wastes, biosolids, yard trimmings and source-separated organic solid wastes, as well as in the marketing and sales of compost and compost-amended horticultural products. Mr. Coker has training as both an engineer and a scientist and has experience with windrow composting, aerated static pile composting, aerated composting bins, invessel systems and both aerobic and anaerobic digestion.  Mr. Coker is a licensed Virginia Waste Management Facility Operator, a certified Virginia Nutrient Management Planner and a USCC/SWANA Certified Compost Systems Manager.  In addition to running Coker Composting & Consulting, Mr. Coker is also a Contributing Editor to Biocycle magazine.   Feasibility Studies, Business & Facility Planning, & Permitting - Anaerobic Digestion Private company, New Jersey - assistance in business plan development for food scraps and yard trimmings AD project (2010 - present) Private company, New York – assistance in business plan development and implementation for food scraps plus greenwaste digestion and composting using European dry fermentation technology (2009 – present) Private company, Minnesota – technology evaluation for 60,000 ton/year anaerobic digestion project (2009), technology evaluation of twelve composting and four digestion (aerobic and anaerobic) alternatives for 1,200 – 10,000 ton/year of source-separated organic solid waste (2007) Feasibility Studies, Business & Facility Planning, & Permitting - Composting French Broad Organics Recycling (Asheville, NC) – support in facility plan development, design and permitting for ASP food waste composting facility (2009 – present) North Carolina Zoological Society (Asheboro, NC) – permitting support for manure compost facility storm water runoff management (2009) Sycamore Station (Kirkwood, PA) – compost manufacturing plan for industrial sludge composting (2009 – present) City of Edmond, OK – feasibility study and facility plan for biosolids, greenwaste and source-separated organic matter composting facility (2009-2010) Private company, Texas – business plan support to compost pelletization company University of South Carolina (Columbia, SC) – food waste audit and facility planning for on-site composting facility (2009) Worley Construction Co. (Rocky Mount, VA) – planning, design and permitting support for a proposed 6,000 ton/year open air turned windrow composting operation (2009) Celanese Acetate, LLC (Narrows, VA) – feasibility study on composting options for industrial residuals (2009) Private Company, Greenwich, CT - feasibility study on national CAFO animal manures composting business (2008 - 2009) Blue Hen Organics, LLC (Millsboro, DE) - permitting support for an open-air turned windrow yard waste composting facility (2008- present) Private company, Virginia - site investigations and permitting support for a biosolids silviculture land application project (2008) Institute for Local Self-Reliance, Washington, D.C. - technical support to outreach program aimed at food scraps diversion to on-farm composting (2009); evaluation of SSOW composting options (waste processing and product markets) for San Juan Municipio, Puerto Rico (2008); preparation of planning-level cost estimate for construction and operation of 12,500 ton/year open-air turned windrow leaf composting facility (2007) Charlotte/Mecklenburg County, NC - development of master plan for relocation, expansion and upgrade of 80,000 tons/year open air turned windrow yard trimmings composting facility (2007-2008) City of Durham, NC - Technical support in repermitting effort for 13,000 ton/year municipal yard waste composting facility (2006-2008) Royal Oak Farm, LLC (Lynchburg, VA) – successful permitting of a Solid Waste Composting Facility in Virginia with capacity of 148,000 tons/year of industrial & commercial residuals; storm water permitting and preparation of Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan (2006) McGill-Leprechaun (Waverly, VA) – successful permitting of a 130,000 tons/year biosolids composting facility; completion & acceptance of Potential-to-Emit for Air Quality Permitting (2006) Crowell Dairy Farms, Inc. (Asheville, NC) – successful permitting of a farm-based solid waste composting facility (2005-2006) UNC – Greensboro (NC) – facility planning for a university food scraps and sawdust composting facility using enclosed turned windrows (2007) and using aerated rotary drum technology (2005) Facility Design, Construction & Operations Green Duck (Richmond, VA) - assistance in planning food scraps diversion operations for the 2010 World Equestrian Games in Lexington, KY (2010) Private company, Texas – preparation of operations manual for poultry manure turned windrow composting facility (2010) New York Botanical Garden (Bronx, NY) – evaluation of operational efficiencies at an on-site vegetative composting operation (2010) New Earth Services (San Antonio & Houston, TX) – evaluation of operational practices to minimize odors and operational optimization study of two biosolids and yard waste open-air turned windrow facilities (2009) Private company, Pennsylvania - development of concept design for 400 ton/day in-vessel aerated static pile composting system (2008) Lamb Farm (Lebanon, IN) - evaluation of operational efficiencies in windrow manure composting facility (2008) Vogel Disposal (Mars, PA) - development of yard waste composting operations plan (2008) Blue Hen Organics, LLC (Millsboro, DE) - site layout, design and operations plan for open-air turned windrow yard waste composting facility (2008 - present) Royal Oak Farm, LLC (Lynchburg, VA) – technical support in securing tipping fee material contracts, equipment evaluations and day-to-day operations of 150,000 ton/year composting facility (2008-present); design and construction management of upgrade of existing open-air turned windrow agricultural composting operation to commercial/industrial composting facility; including pad hardening and runoff pond lining (2006-2008) Poplar Manor Enterprises, LLC (Riner, VA) - technical support in permitting, facility design and operations for a 16,800 ton/year  farm-scale manure and food waste composting facility (2007 - 2009) Soundside Recycling (Jarvisburg, NC) - design of a 2,000 ton demonstration project for composting engineered wood products with fresh compost and liquid nitrogen fertilizer (2007) Bay Organics, LLC (Hurlock, MD) - preparation of an operations plan for an agricultural and seafood residuals open-air turned windrow composting facility (2007) McGill-Leprechaun (Waverly, VA) – design of new enclosed extended aerated static pile composting facility to process 130,000 tons/year; including process design, biofilter for odor control, computerized process monitoring (2006) Mountain Organic Materials, LLC (Asheville, NC) – design, construction and operation of an 8,000 ton/year dairy manure, poultry litter and sawdust aerated bin composting operation at a 650-head dairy farm, Asheville, NC (2000-2003) WNC Pallet & Forest Products, Inc. (Asheville, NC) - Operations management of wood waste recycling center, Asheville, NC (2001 – 2003) Development and management of food waste recycling program, 1999 Special Olympics, Raleigh, NC Compost Marketing & Sales Private company, New Jersey – compost market potential evaluation (2010) Peninsula Composting (Wilmington, DE) – support in developing compost-based bioretention soil media (2010) New York Botanical Garden (Bronx, NY) – development of compost usage plan for Botanical Garden, including soil amendment, mulch and compost tea (2010)  Private company, Missouri – development of compost, mulch and soils strategic and tactical marketing plans for 500,000 CY/year of production (2009) Mother’s Organics (Thanotosassa, FL) – technical support to yard waste compost marketing program (2008) Vogel Disposal, Inc. (Mars, PA) - development of compost, mulch, and soils marketing plan (2008) Blue Hen Organics, LLC (Millsboro, DE) - preparation of yard waste compost marketing plan (2008) Creech Services, Inc. (Lexington, KY) - review of marketing plans for Thoroughbred Landscape Products (2007) Mecklenburg County, NC - development of marketing plan for yard waste compost and compost-based soil products (2007) Royal Oak Farm, LLC (Lynchburg, VA) – development and execution of marketing plan for solid waste compost and compost-based soil products (2005 - present) Training Programs U.S. Composting Council (Ronkonkoma, NY) – co-instructor on "Compost Business Management" (2010) and “Compost Use in Agriculture and Horticulture” (2006, 2007); Training instructor for EPA Region 3 State Regulator Training Program (2008) NC State Chapter of USCC (Raleigh, NC) - Primary instructor for 40-hour Commercial Composting & Compost Use Course, Sept. 2008.  Courses taught: Composting Process I & II, Feedstock Characterization, Composting Systems & Technologies, Process Monitoring & Control, Facility Design & Siting, Odor & Air Emissions Control, Compost Quality, and Compost Use in Landscaping, Erosion Control, Ornamental Horticulture & Environmental Remediation Georgia Recycled Organics Council (Athens, GA) – Training instructor for Compost Awareness Week workshop (2009) Professional Recyclers of Pennsylvania (Bellwood, PA) – Training instructor for Recycling 220 – Advanced Composting (2009) Carolinas Composting Council (Pittsboro, NC) – Instructor for Compost Operator Training Course (2006, 2003, 2002). Prior Project Experience: Organics Recycling Technical Assistance Coordinator, NC Dept. of Environment and Natural Resources (1998-2001) Preparation of business plan for manure-based composting and sales program for Fortune 100 company, Moline, IL (1994-1995) Evaluation of industrial sludge composting options for Fortune 100 company, Wilmington, DE (1995) Technical consultant to Citizen Advisory Committee on biosolids composting alternatives, New York City (1991-1993) Facility planning, permitting and design of biosolids dewatering and pelletizing facility, Elizabeth, NJ (1989-1994) Facility planning for biosolids composting facility, Rahway, NJ (1988) Planning, permitting, design and construction management of 150,000 tpy biosolids composting facility, Dickerson, MD (1981-1983) Solid waste management plan, Baltimore County, MD (1978-1979) Solid waste management plan, new Federal Capital City, Nigeria (1979) Facility planning and design for biosolids composting facility, Washington DC (1976-1981)