One Earth Organics (OEO) was formed in 2001 to provide individualized waste related consulting services to large waste generators. We began working with our first large client, a leading cranberry grower and processor, in that same year. Some highlights of our years working with this client include conceiving of an idea to use cranberry waste as an additive to garden mulch, performing extensive R&D on this idea, and leading successful efforts to obtain special permitting for this use. This project alone saved the company hundreds of thousands of dollars per year.
Another client is the world’s highest volume ocean quahog processing facility, which is located in New Bedford, MA. Within eighteen months of beginning to provide services for this plant, 95% of the approximately 9,000 tons per year of materials we were under contract to manage were being moved to new sites at a net cost savings to our client of nearly 50%. Additional R&D is being performed which shows great promise of leading to profitably marketing most of this material into human or animal consumption markets.
In the coming years, OEO plans to bring on several new large waste generator clients at a pace which will allow us to continue to provide uninterrupted excellent service to each client.
Scott McLane is the President and Founder of One Earth Organics. As a veteran of the waste and recycling industry he has a wealth of knowledge in all aspects of the business. His contacts and long term friendships with people in the industry, including regulators, are key to OEO’s success. Scott believes in fostering relationships that are mutually beneficial to our clients, our company and our planet.
Gerald Magid is Vice President and Partner of One Earth Organics. Gerald came to the company from a background as a business owner and real estate developer. He brings a wide range of experience to the table in the areas of project management, negotiating and marketing. Gerald’s creative approach to problem solving and marketing have been instrumental in helping to strengthen OEO’s operations in general, and in identifying potential opportunities to move our clients’ residuals out of the waste stream and into the marketplace in particular.