- Dealt with unfavorable regulations in Massachusetts by arranging for all of our seafood processor client’s compostable wastes to be trucked to six different sites in four states at haul and tip fee costs that are 40-50% lower than the disposal options that were previously in place. This is saving our client several hundred thousand dollars per year.
- Are currently moving what were formerly seafood “wastes” to buyers in the pet and human food industries both domestically and abroad. Are also working with scientists to explore high end nutraceutical markets, as well as poultry and aquaculture feed markets. We expect to generate a profit on 25% of our client’s former waste materials by the summer of 2010, and most of the remaining former waste materials by the end of 2011.
- Eight years managing five compostable waste and by-product streams (approximately 15,000 tons per year) generated in the Massachusetts facilities of a leading cranberry grower and processor.
- Saved a cranberry processor client hundreds of thousands of dollars per year on waste related costs compared with what their costs would have been had they continued using their previous waste disposal/composting options.
- Performed R&D to create over 100 cubic yards of mulch containing several different percentages of cranberry residues (called pomace). Used each type of mulch that was created in wide ranging experiments to determine its effects on the growth of various delicate plants, its esthetic qualities, etc. (More information on our R&D)
- Developed the idea to use pomace as a growth medium in the greenhouse industry, and then coordinated with a team of scientists who conducted research at no cost to our client on this use (Use this link for more information). Led efforts to obtain two Beneficial Use Determinations (BUD’s) from the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MDEP). One BUD allowed Ocean Spray’s cranberry pomace to be mixed with garden mulch even though it was previously classified as a food waste, and therefore had not been allowed in this application. The other BUD permits the use of pomace as a growth medium in the greenhouse and nursery industries.
- Eight years developing and marketing several grades of mulch, compost and soil products for one of the largest vegetative waste processing facilities in southeastern Massachusetts (Cape Resources).
- Assisted with successful R&D effort to recover over $1000 per day of coins from ash at the SEMASS resource recovery plant in Rochester, MA.
- Led R&D efforts to find ways to recover, and market, $300,000 per year worth of small particles of partially melted aluminum from SEMASS ash.
- Assisted with permitting, and developed a market for, one of the largest ever (over 10,000 tons) Resource Recovery ash re-use projects in the U.S.
- Developed original markets for six unique, difficult to market types of scrap metal (40,000 tons per year) generated at SEMASS. Continued marketing and managing transportation of these materials for 10 years, to over 20 different scrap buyers throughout the U.S.