Mr. Coker has over 45 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 both composting 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. Mr. Coker is also a Contributing Editor to BioCycle CONNECT. Mr. Coker’s recent project experience includes:
Collection/Diversion Programs Organics Recycling Business/Facility Plans Facility Design Industry Support
International Projects Marketing/Sales Mergers & Acquisition Planning Nutrient Management Plans Odor Evaluations
Operations Evaluations Permitting – Air Permitting – Storm Water Permitting – Waste Management
Siting Evaluations Renewable Energy/Anaerobic Digestion Training
Collection/Diversion Program Planning
◊ Town of Cary, NC - evaluation of curbside collection (voluntary sign-up and standard offering) and food scraps drop-off station alternatives for up to 20,000 tons/year of food wastes by 2035 (2023-2024)
◊ Star City Compost, Roanoke VA - development of ArcGIS routing model for new food scraps collection business (2023)
◊ City of Red Wing, MN - evaluation of source-separated organics collection options including curbside collection, drop-off stations and durable compostable bags co-collected with MSW (2022-2023)
◊ CreekSide Soils, Hutchinson MN - development of "Compost It Right!" campaign to improve participation and set-out rates and reduce contamination in source-separated organics collected at curbside in standard offering program (2022-2023)
◊ Second Harvest Food Bank of NW North Carolina - financial and non-financial evaluation of on-site and off-site diversion options for food wastes (2022)
◊ Arlington County VA Solid Waste Bureau - evaluation of a proposed food waste curbside collection and diversion program (2020)
◊ Rivanna Solid Waste Authority, Charlottesville VA - evaluation of dedicated food waste transfer stations at Moores Creek WWTP and at Ivy Landfill (2020)
◊ City of Philadelphia, PA - support in development of RFP for company to collect and compost food scraps from Parks & Recreation centers (2019)
◊ Montgomery County, MD - update of 10-yr Solid Waste Management Plan with focus on food and yard wastes (2018-2019)
◊ Private company, VA - collection optimization and site selection for dedicated organics recovery and transfer station (2018-2019)
◊ Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government, Lexington KY – evaluation of organics recycling options for food wastes, yard wastes, and biosolids (2018)
◊ 301 Organics, Pasadena, CA – evaluation of food waste diversion options for Rose Bowl Stadium (2018)
◊ Region 2000 Services Authority, Lynchburg VA - evaluation of organics recycling options for Yr 2030 Solid Waste Management Plan (2017)
◊ University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA - optimization analysis of food wastes collection and diversion (2017)
◊ City of Rolla, MO - feasibility study for recycling commercial and residential food scraps by collection and composting (2014)
◊ Mystic Lake Casino and Hotel, Prior Lake MN – food waste audit at entertainment complex serving 6,500 meals/day (2013)
◊ Green Duck, Richmond, VA - assistance in planning food scraps diversion operations for the 2010 World Equestrian Games in Lexington, KY (2010)
◊ University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC – food waste audit and facility planning for on-site composting facility (2009)
◊ Development and management of food waste recycling program, 1999 Special Olympics, Raleigh, NC
Organics Recycling Business/Facility Plans
◊ Town of Cary NC - feasibility study for municipal vs. outsourced food waste composting facility (2023-2024)
◊ Private company, NJ - assessment of potential feedstocks to, products from and competition to, a 50,000 ton/year ASP composting facility (2023)
◊ Soil Carbon Management, Cloverdale CA - preparation of business plan for static pile composting of greenwastes (2023)
◊ City of Red Wing, MN - organics recycling facility plan for composting source-separated organics (2022-2023)
◊ Montgomery County MD - preparation of 20-year Organics Management Plan for food scraps and yard trimmings (2023); assistance in developing a Zero Waste Plan for the County focusing on diversion of 75,000 tpy of food scraps (2022)
◊ Private company, New Jersey - facility planning for 17,000 ton/year covered aerated static pile composting facility for food scraps and yard trimmings (2021)
◊ Creekside Soils, Hutchinson MN - evaluation of growth options for containerized SSO and windrow yard waste composting facility (2020)
◊ Lafayette, LA - facility planning for enhancement of existing yard waste composting facility (2020)
◊ Watauga County, NC - facility and business planning for 3,000 tpy food waste composting facility (2020)
◊ Western Elite, Las Vegas NV - facility planning for 15,000 tpy biosolids composting facility (2019)
◊ University of Hawaii, Oahu - facility planning for university food scraps composting facility (2019)
◊ Rivanna Solid Waste Authority, Charlottesville, VA - facility plans for two composting facilities: 4,000 tpy food scraps and 15,000 tpy biosolids (2019)
◊ Royal Oak Farm, Evington VA - business planning for industrial drying, depackaging, dewatering and anaerobic digestion facility (2018-present)
◊ Bluegrass Organics, Owensboro, KY - development of business plan for 10,000 ton/year industrial residuals composting (2018)
◊ City of Appleton, WI - facility plan for 10,000 ton/year biosolids composting facility (2018)
◊ Martha's Vineyard, MA - development of business plan for on-island 4,000 ton/year food waste composting facility (2018)
◊ Town of Smithtown, NY - evaluation of local permitting requirements for indoor organic waste processing facilities (2016)
◊ Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, VA – evaluation of manure and food waste composting options at Research Farm (2017), feasibility study of on-campus vs off-campus composting (2015)
◊ North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC - feasibility study of on-campus composting facility (2015)
◊ Bison Compost, Leeds, ND - preparation of a business plan for a manure composting facility (2015)
◊ Detroit Shoreway Community Development Organization, Cleveland, OH - feasibility study of food scraps and yard trimmings commercial composting facility (2013)
◊ Ecomaine, Portland, ME – organics recycling feasibility study of 47-county solid waste authority handling 200,000 tons/yr of MSW (2013)
◊ Kenai Peninsula Borough, Kenai, AK – composting feasibility study for source-separated organic feedstocks (2012)
◊ Private industry, Smyrna TN – evaluation of technology options for on-site composting of cafeteria pre- and post-consumer food scraps (2012)
◊ City of Edmond, OK – feasibility study and facility plan for biosolids, yard wastes and source-separated organic matter composting facility (2009-2010)
◊ Prince William County DPW, Manassas, VA - evaluation of impacts of adding food waste to municipal yard wastes composting facility (2011)
◊ Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, VA) - technical assistance in facility planning and permitting for in-vessel rotary drum composting system for campus food scraps (2011)
◊ Celanese Acetate, LLC (Narrows, VA) – feasibility study on composting options for industrial residuals (2009)
◊ District of Columbia DPW, Washington, D.C. - cost estimates for construction and operation of 12,500 ton/year open-air turned windrow leaf composting facility (2007)
Facility Design
◊ Star City Compost, Roanoke VA - design of 500 ton/year aerated static pile system for food scraps (2023)
◊ Private company, Florida - design of a 262,500 ton/year turned windrow composting facility for green wastes (2021-2022)
◊ Creekside Soils, Hutchinson MN - design of 1,500 ton/year covered aerated static pile composting facility for source-separated organics (2021)
◊ Private company, Florida - design of a 125,000 ton/year turned windrow composting facility for agricultural wastes (2021)
◊ Panorama Paydirt, Charlottesville, VA - design of 1,000 tpy aerated static pile food waste composting system within larger leaf windrow composting facility (2020)
◊ Westchester County, NY - design of aerated static pile composting demonstration and education facility (2020)
◊ Private company, Gaffney, SC - design of extended aerated static pile compost facility for 30,000 tpy of animal processing wastes and industrial food processing residuals (2020)
◊ Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community - design of 115,000 tpy aerated static pile composting facility for woody wastes, food processing residuals, SSOM and biosolids (2019-2021)
◊ Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA - design of enclosed aerated windrow composting facility for food wastes (2018-2019)
◊ Community Compost Co., Newburgh, NY – design of extended positive forced ASP composting facility for food wastes (2017-2018)
◊ North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC - design of positive forced ASP composting facility (2017)
◊ Private Company, San Francisco CA - design of biological degradation model for new proposed composting facility (2017)
◊ Queens Botanical Garden, Queens NY – design of positive forced ASP composting facility (2017)
◊ Compost Crew, Dickerson MD – preliminary design of 1,300 tons/year positive forced ASP composting facility (2017)
◊ Sullivan Hanoverians Farm, Walkertown NC - design of positive forced ASP composting facility for 30-horse farm (2017)
◊ Mecklenburg County LUESA, Charlotte NC – design of 80,000 tons/year relocated turned windrow yard waste composting facility (2016)
◊ Town of Waxhaw NC - design of new leaf composting facility (2016)
◊ Fletcher BioEnergy, Hendersonville NC – design of 25,000 tons/year positive forced ASP food waste composting facility (2015)
◊ Abbey Greene, Winston-Salem NC – preliminary design of 5,000 tons/year yard waste composting facility (2015)
◊ Spotsylvania County DPW, Livingston VA - process design, cost estimates for 5,000 tons/year turned-windrow yard waste composting facility (2014, updated 2018)
◊ Mecklenburg County LUESA, Charlotte, NC - process design, operations manual for 80,000 tons/year turned-windrow yard waste composting facility (2014)
◊ Howard County Bureau of Environmental Services, Ellicott City MD – process design of 40,000 ton/year covered aerated static pile composting facility (2012-2013)
◊ Chesapeake Compost, Baltimore MD – design of 8,000 ton/yr negative forced ASP food scraps composting facility inside repurposed industrial building (2012)
◊ BCR Environmental, Foley AL –design of 5,000 tons/year negative forced ASP biosolids composting facility (2012)
◊ Private company, Dona Ana, NM - design of manure and digestate composting facility (2011)
◊ City of Edmond, OK – design of first phase of yard waste composting facility (2012)
◊ Blue Hen Organics, Millsboro, DE - site layout, design and operations plan for open-air turned windrow yard waste composting facility (2008 - 2016)
◊ Kingsmill Farm, Durham NC – design of 5,000 tons/year dairy manure turned windrow composting facility (2007)
◊ Royal Oak Farm, Evington VA - design and construction management of upgrade of existing open-air turned windrow agricultural composting operation to 150,000 tons/year industrial composting facility; including pad hardening and runoff pond lining (2006-2008)
◊ McGill Environmental Systems, 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 (2005-2006)
◊ Mountain Organic Materials, Asheville, NC – design, construction and operation of an 8,000 ton/year dairy manure, poultry litter and sawdust aerated bin composting operation at a 850-head dairy farm, Asheville, NC (2000-2003)
Industry Support
◊ Composting Consortium, NYC - preparation of regulatory analyses for upgrading yard trimmings composting facilities to accept food scraps; evaluation of compost markets; evaluation of composting facility financial performance metrics (2023)
◊ Virginia Dept. of Environmental Quality - Waste Diversion and Recycling Task Force (2021-2022)
◊ BioCycle magazine – Contributing & Senior Editor (2007 – present)
◊ U.S. Composting Council, Raleigh NC – preparation of Decision-Making Guide to Compostable Plastics (2021); preparation of Persistent Herbicide guidance documents (2016)
◊ Institute for Local Self-Reliance, Washington D.C. – evaluation of composting costs for the Maryland Million Acre Challenge to encourage regenerative agriculture; contributing author, State of Composting in the U.S. (2014)
◊ Maryland Dept. of Environment, Compost Regulations Working Group (2012-2013)
◊ North Carolina Dept. of Environment & Natural Resources, Compost Storm Water Working Group (2010-2012)
◊ South Carolina Dept. of Health & Environmental Control, Compost Regulations Working Group (2008-2013)
International Projects
◊ EDAMA Compost, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia - design of positive forced ASP composting facility for food wastes (2018)
◊ Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, Beirut, Lebanon – design of positive forced ASP composting facility for food wastes (2017)
◊ Mercy Corps, Tripoli, Lebanon - Value Engineering study of proposed 400 ton/day mixed-waste materials recovery facility (2017)
◊ Al Midan NGO, Zgharta Region, Lebanon - solid waste management plan for recyclables and organics (2017)
◊ SOILS Permaculture, Jezzine & Chouf regions, Lebanon - planning and design of source-separated recyclables and organics processing facilities (2016-2017); design of three new SSO composting facilities (2016-2017)
◊ Kazi Farms, Dhaka, Bangladesh - design of composting facilities for poultry hatchery wastes (2016)
◊ COMLURB, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - evaluation of alternative windrow turning methods and conversion to forced aeration composting at Caju Composting Facility, a 23,400 metric ton/yr facility handling residuals from mixed-waste MRF (2015)
◊ Private Company, New South Wales, Australia - peer review of Operations Plan for 40,000 ton/year food scraps and greenwaste forced aeration composting facility (2015)
◊ Solid Waste Disposal and Recycling Project Office, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - review of design and operations plan for 2,000 ton/year food scraps and bagasse composting facility (2015)
◊ San Juan Municipio, Puerto Rico - evaluation of SSO composting options (waste processing and product markets) for rehabilitation of Toa Baja composting facility (2008)
Marketing/Sales
◊ Private company, Kansas - assessment of market potential for aerobically digested product from food processing (2023)
◊ Private company, Indiana - development of strategic marketing plan for composts and topsoils made from digested manure and biosolids (2021)
◊ Private company, Maryland - analysis of markets for compost made from digested food scraps, five regions in U.S. (2021)
◊ Arlington Co., VA - development of strategic marketing plan for mulches and composts recycled from yard trimmings and food scraps (2020)
◊ Private company, Virginia - development of strategic marketing plan for yard waste & food scraps composting facility (2019)
◊ Royal Oak Farm, Evington VA - bagged products design and execution plan (2018)
◊ City of South Bend, IN - development of compost marketing and sales plan (2014)
◊ Celebrity Dirt, Asheboro NC – market assessment for specialty compost product (2014)
◊ Topsoiletc., Baltimore MD – development of compost marketing and sales program (2012)
◊ 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)
◊ St. Louis Composting, St. Louis MO – development of compost, mulch and soils strategic and tactical marketing plans for 500,000 CY/year of production (2009-2012)
◊ Mother’s Organics, Thanotosassa FL – technical support to yard waste compost marketing program (2008)
◊ Vogel Disposal, Mars PA - development of compost, mulch, and soils marketing plan (2008)
◊ Blue Hen Organics, Millsboro DE - preparation of yard waste compost marketing plan (2008)
◊ Creech Services, Lexington KY - review of marketing plans for Thoroughbred Landscape Products (2007)
◊ Mecklenburg County LUESA, Charlotte NC - development of marketing plan for yard waste compost and compost-based soil products (2007)
◊ Royal Oak Farm, Evington VA – development and execution of marketing plan for solid waste compost and compost-based soil products (2005 - 2012)
◊ Mountain Organic Materials, Asheville NC - development and execution of marketing plan for solid waste compost and compost-based soil products (2000 – 2003)
Mergers & Acquisitions/Business Planning
◊ Private equity company, Washington DC - assistance in due diligence of composting company acquisition in California and development of a vermicomposting business (2022)
◊ Private equity company, New Canaan, CT - evaluation of feasibility of composting company acquisition in Florida (2021)
◊ Private equity company, Boston MA - assistance in due diligence of corporate and project investments in composting company (2020-present)
◊ Private equity company, Boston MA – assistance in due diligence of organics recycling acquisition in southern U.S. (2017)
◊ Asset management company, Portland OR – assistance in due diligence of asset financing project in mid-Atlantic U.S. (2017)
◊ Asset investment company, New York City NY – assistance in due diligence of organics recycling acquisition in southern U.S. (2017)
◊ Private company, Baton Rouge LA – assistance in finding buyers for organics recycling facilities in Knoxville and Nashville, TN (2017)
◊ Specialty finance company, San Francisco CA – assistance in due diligence of organics recycling inventory financing request in southwestern U.S. (2016)
Odor Evaluations
◊ Royal Oak Farm, Evington VA – evaluation of odor problems and development of resolution alternatives for short paper fiber turned windrow composting facility (2013)
◊ Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community, Prior Lake MN – assistance in developing proactive odor management plan for food waste turned windrow composting facility (2012)
◊ Township of Haverford, PA - operations assessments and consulting for odor issues at turned windrow leaf composting facility (2010-2012)
◊ Nu-Earth Organics LLC, Waukegan, IL – operational evaluation to reduce off-site odor episodes (2012)
◊ 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)
Operations Evaluations
◊ ReSoil Compost, Elgin SC - operations optimization study (2023)
◊ Sevier Solid Waste Inc., Sevierville, TN - operational assessment of MSW composting facility (2020 - 2021)
◊ Arlington County, VA - development of topsoil manufacturing plan (2021); operational assessment of Earth Products Recycling Yard (2020)
◊ Community Compost Co., Kerhonken, NY - operational assessment of ASP food scraps composting facility (2019)
◊ Green Meadow Organics, Milford, NJ - evaluation of microbial inoculants effectiveness (2018)
◊ Chittenden Solid Waste/Green Mtn. Compost, Burlington VT - evaluation of cost reductions and revenue improvements (2018)
◊ 21st Century Ag, Jeffersonville IN - operability analysis of rotary-drum composting facility (2016)
◊ Abbey Greene, Winston-Salem NC – preparation of operations plan for 5,000 tons/year yard waste composting facility (2015)
◊ Otter River Farm, Winchendon MA - process, materials handling, and business management operational optimization evaluation (2013)
◊ Carolina Compost, Camden NC – expansion planning technical and business support (2012)
◊ Township of Haverford, PA - operations assessments and consulting for leaf composting facility (2010-2012)
◊ Black Bear Composting, Crimora VA – preparation of operations plan for 4,000 tons/year food waste composting facility (2011)
◊ Wasatch Integrated Waste Management District, Layton UT – operational evaluation of greenwaste composting facility; preliminary design of expansion (2011 - 2012)
◊ City of South Bend, IN – Operational evaluation of yard trimmings composting facility (2012); program oversight for outsourcing facility operations (2012-2013)
◊ Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (Prior Lake, MN) – equipment evaluation of slow speed shredder; process control and management support (2011 – 2015)
◊ New York Botanical Garden, Bronx NY – evaluation of operational efficiencies at an on-site vegetative composting operation (2010)
◊ Poultry Organics, Lubbock TX – preparation of operations manual for poultry manure turned windrow composting facility (2010)
◊ Royal Oak Farm, Evington VA – preparation of operations and health & safety plans for 150,000 tons/year turned windrow industrial composting facility; evaluation of slow speed grinder alternatives (2009)
◊ Blue Hen Organics, Millsboro DE – preparation of operations plan for 30,000 tons/year turned windrow yard waste and poultry residuals composting facility (2009)
◊ Mecklenburg County LUESA, Charlotte NC - development of operations plan for yard waste composting facility (2008)
◊ Lamb Farm, Lebanon, IN - evaluation of operational efficiencies in windrow manure composting facility (2008)
◊ Bay Organics, Hurlock MD - preparation of an operations plan for an agricultural and seafood residuals open-air turned windrow composting facility (2007)
Permitting – Air
◊ Private company, Kansas - evaluation of air permitting requirements for industrial residuals organics processing system (2022)
◊ City of Appleton, WI - Potential-to-Emit analysis of proposed 10,000 ton/year aerated static pile biosolids composting operation (2018)
◊ Organics Diversion, Gloucester City NJ – Potential-to-Emit analysis of 50,000 ton/year enclosed aerated static pile composting facility (2018); earlier, PTE analysis of 60,000 tons/year enclosed anaerobic digestion and in-vessel composting facility in support of air emissions permit issued by NJDEP (2012)
◊ Blue Hen Organics, Millsboro DE – preparation of Title V Operating Air Permit application for tub grinder
◊ McGill Environmental Systems, Waverly VA – Potential-to-Emit analysis of 130,000 tons/year enclosed extended aerated static pile composting facility to prove qualifications for permit exemption (2005)
Permitting – Storm Water
◊ South Jersey Agricultural Products, Elmer NJ – evaluation of site conditions in support of NJ Groundwater Discharge Permit (2017)
◊ Fletcher BioEnergy, Hendersonville NC – preparation of Industrial General Discharge Permit for 25,000 tons/year positive forced ASP food waste composting facility (2015)
◊ Royal Oak Farm, Evington VA – preparation of Industrial General Discharge Permit application for 150,000 tons/year turned windrow industrial composting facility (2009); semi-annual compliance testing and reporting (2009 - present)
◊ North Carolina Zoo, Asheboro NC - operations assessment for the Zoo’s manure compost facility and evaluation of upgrades to storm water runoff management to meet new regulatory requirements (2011)
◊ Member, NC DENR Compost Storm Water Working Group (2010-2012)
◊ Blue Hen Organics, Millsboro, DE – preparation of Industrial General Discharge Permit application for 30,000 tons/year turned windrow poultry residuals and yard waste composting facility (2010)
Permitting – Waste Management
◊ Star City Compost, Roanoke VA - preparation of Permit-by-Rule documents for food scraps composting facility (2023)
◊ Private company, North Carolina - waste permitting for on-site industrial composting facility (2022-2023)
◊ Private company, Kansas - evaluation of waste permitting requirements for industrial residuals organics processing system (2022)
◊ CreekSide Soils/City of Hutchinson, MN - Source-separated organic materials composting major permit modification request for 1,500 tpy ASP composting upgrade (2021-2022)
◊ Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community, Shakopee MN - Source-separated organic materials composting permit for 115,000 tpy ASP composting facility (2021-2022)
◊ Private company, Gaffney SC - support to local engineer for Solid Waste Composting permit for 30,000 tpy animal processing residuals and industrial food processing residuals (2020)
◊ Daly Organics, Hardeeville SC – Type 1 Wood Grinding application (2020) and agricultural Waste Composting application for 9,500 tons/year manure and cotton trash composting facility (2017)
◊ Remington Mulch Co., Marshall VA – Permit-By-Rule application for 12,500 tons/year leaf composting facility (2017)
◊ Horizon 880, Belle Glade, FL – Solid Waste Composting and Biosolids Composting permit applications for 60,000 tons/year biosolids and manure composting facility (2016)
◊ Fletcher BioEnergy, Hendersonville NC – Solid Waste Composting permit application for 25,000 tons/year food waste composting facility (2015)
◊ City of Portsmouth DPW, Portsmouth VA - Permit-By-Rule application for 25,000 tons/year yard waste composting facility (2015)
◊ Floyd Fest, Floyd VA – Permit-By-Rule application of music festival event composting facility (2012)
◊ Black Bear Composting, Crimora VA – Permit-By-Rule application of 4,000 tons/year food waste composting facility (2011)
◊ Blue Hen Organics, Millsboro, DE – Solid Waste composting permit application for 30,000 tons/year poultry residuals and yard waste composting facility (2008)
◊ Poplar Manor Enterprises, Riner VA - Solid Waste Composting permit application for 1,600 tons/year food waste composting facility (2007)
◊ City of Durham, NC - Technical support in repermitting effort for 13,000 ton/year municipal yard waste composting facility (2006-2008)
◊ Royal Oak Farm, Evington VA – Solid Waste Composting permit application for 130,000 tons/year industrial residuals composting facility (2006)
◊ McGill Environmental Systems, Waverly VA – Biosolids Composting permit application for 130,000 tons/year biosolids composting facility (2005)
Siting Evaluations
◊ City of Boston, MA - siting evaluations for food waste recycling infrastructure, including composting, AD transfer stations, collection route receipts and food waste drop-off sites (2022)
◊ City of Appleton, WI - evaluation of four sites for biosolids composting facility (2018-2019)
◊ Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, VA – evaluation of three sites for manure and food waste composting at Research Farm (2017), evaluation of site for on-campus composting (2015)
◊ Kenai Peninsula Borough, Kenai, AK – site evaluations in three municipalities in Borough for food and green waste composting facility (2013)
◊ Black Bear Composting, Crimora VA – site evaluations in three counties for food waste composting facility (2011-2012)
◊ Prince William County DPW, Manassas, VA - evaluation of site suitability for adding food scraps to existing yard waste windrow composting operation (2011)
◊ City of Newport News DPW, Newport News VA) - evaluation of site suitability for adding food scraps to existing yard waste windrow composting operation (2011
◊ Cocoa Compost, Holland MI – site evaluations in four counties in southern Michigan and northern Indiana for yard waste composting facility (2010-2011)
◊ City of Edmond DPW, Edmond OK – evaluation of three sites for biosolids and yard waste composting facility (2009)
Renewable Energy/Anaerobic Digestion
◊ Private company, NY - regulatory evaluation of five growth markets for small-scale anaerobic digesters (2022)
◊ Private company, MA - evaluation of six growth markets (feedstocks, competition) for stand-alone anaerobic digesters (2022)
◊ Rockingham County VA - feasibility evaluation for anaerobic digestion facility for dairy manures and industrial food processing residuals (2022)
◊ Pennsylvania DEP, Harrisburg PA - evaluation of options for increasing the amount of food scraps diverted to anaerobic digestion (2020-2021)
◊ Environmental Law Institute, Washington D.C. - evaluation of business cases for co-digestion of various feedstocks with sewage sludges at water resources recovery facilities (2017-2018)
◊ Private company, Cincinnati OH - technical support in development of merchant anaerobic digestion facility (2017)
◊ Private company, Duplin NC - technology evaluation for producing 5 MW power from animal wastes (2017)
◊ U.S.D.A. Renewable Energy Assistance Program, Washington, D.C. - Review of grant applications based on anaerobic digestion (2016)
◊ Abt Environmental Services, Washington D.C. – Development of spreadsheet-based planning tools for new AD facilities (2017); preparation of EPA AgStar Handbook, 3rd Edition (2016)
◊ Alachua County Solid Waste, Gainesville FL - Evaluation of AD and gasification options for organics residual from mixed waste MRF (2014)
◊ Ecomaine Solid Waste Authority, Portland, ME - Evaluation of anaerobic digestion options for source-separated organics (2012-2013)
◊ Kenai Peninsula Borough, AK - Evaluation of anaerobic digestion options for source-separated organics (2012-2013)
◊ Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Flint MI – plan review of biosolids digestate land application project (2012)
◊ Tibbar Energy, St. Croix USVI – design of digestate composting system (2012)
◊ Ineos Bio, Vero Beach FL – design and implementation of biodrying pilot test for greenwaste gasification plant (2011)
◊ Organics Diversion, Gloucester City NJ - assistance in business plan development for food scraps and yard trimmings HSAD project (2010 - 2012)
◊ Private company, New York – assistance in business plan development and implementation for food scraps plus greenwaste digestion and composting using HSAD technology (2009 – 2011)
◊ Randy’s Sanitation, Delano MN – design of 35,000 ton/year HSAD facility (2012-2017), 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 SSO (2007)
Training
◊ Private company, South Carolina - Compost operations training for yard waste composting facility (2021)
◊ The Harvest Collective, Roanoke VA - Compost operations training for proposed 2,000 ton/year food wastes composting facility (2020)
◊ Virginia Department of Corrections - 40 hr Compost Operator Training Course - numerous sessions taught (2019)
◊ Virginia Tech Cooperative Extension Webinar series – Composting Process Management, Site Selection and Design, Odor Management (2017)
◊ North Carolina DEQ Composting Webinar – Odor Management (2017)
◊ Commission for Environmental Cooperation, Joint Public Advisory Committee, Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Mexico – Organics Recycling in the U.S. (2017)
◊ Town of Waxhaw, NC – Leaf Composting 101– classroom and field exercises (2016)
◊ Better Composting School, University of MD, College Park MD – Compost Systems and Methods, Odor Management, Compost Equipment, Site Selection & Design (2018, 2016, 2014) – classroom and field exercises
◊ Chouf Biosphere Reserve, Al Chouf, Lebanon – Introduction to Composting Source-Separated Organics (2016)
◊ Climate Works Foundation, Genoa, Italy – Preparation of Training Presentation on Role of Biogas Production Plants to Manage MSW and Reduce GHG Emissions (2016)
◊ COMLURB, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – Training on Good Composting Practices and on Contaminant Removal at Caju Composting Facility for Clean Cities Action Coalition/MSW Initiative (2015)
◊ Stratus Consulting (now Abt Environmental) – Training on Organics Management with Composting and Anaerobic Digestion for Clean Cities Action Coalition/MSW Initiative (2014)
◊ Texas Compost Camp (Denton, TX) – Instructor for Economics of Compost Manufacturing and Food Scraps Diversion in a Small Community (2015)
◊ U.S. Composting Council (Bethesda, MD) – Co-Instructor for Compost Operator Training Course (2011-2015). Topics taught: Compost Systems and Methods, Site Selection and Design, Odor Management; developed 5-day Compost Operator Training Course while Chair, Professional Development Committee (2007-2011) – classroom and field exercises
◊ James City County (Williamsburg, VA) – Instructor for “Improving Soil Quality” at James City County Recycling Expo (Nov. 2014)
◊ South Carolina Dept. of Commerce (Columbia, SC) – Instructor for “Compost Systems, Methods and Markets” at Composting in South Carolina class (Oct. 2014)
◊ VA State Chapter of USCC (Richmond, VA) – Primary instructor for 8-hr CEU course: Solid Waste Composting (2014). Topics taught: Odor Management, Storm Water Management, and Food Scraps Composting.
◊ NC State Chapter of USCC (Raleigh, NC) – Primary instructor for 40-hour Commercial Composting and Compost Use Course (2008-2010). Topics taught: Composting Process I & II, Facility Sizing, Compost Recipe Development, Process Monitoring & Control, Odor & Air Emissions Control, Storm Water Management, Composting Business Enterprise, and Compost Use in Landscaping– classroom and field exercises
◊ Carolinas Composting Council (Pittsboro, NC) – Instructor for Compost Operator Training Course (2006, 2003, 2002). Topics 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– classroom and field exercises
◊ USEPA Region IV – “Compost Operator Training for Federally-Recognized Native American Tribes” – course instructor and field exercise manager (32-hour course, August 2004). Co-instructors Dr. K.C. Das, Univ. of GA and Dr. M. Ozores-Hampton, Univ. of FL. – classroom and field exercises
◊ NC Chapter of Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) – Course instructor and Project Manager for “Managing Vegetative Debris” (16-hour course, February 2005)
Prior 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)
Licenses and Certifications
* Virginia Nutrient Management Planner Certificate No. 587 (2009-2021)
* Virginia Class 2 Waste Management Facility Operators License No. 4605 002846 (2007)
* U.S. Composting Council/Solid Waste Association of North America, Compost Systems Manager, Certificate No. 57591 (2004)
* University of Maine, Certificate of Technical Ability in Composting (2001)
* University of Georgia, Compost Operator Training Certificate (2000)
Education
* M.S., Civil & Environmental Engineering, George Washington University, 1980
* B.A., Environmental Science, University of Virginia, 1975
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