Harvey Gershman, President and Co-Founder of Gershman, Brickner & Bratton, Inc. (GBB), was recently presented with the 2013 Robert L. Lawrence Distinguished Service Award, one of the highest honors in the solid waste industry, for his significant contribution to the solid waste management profession. This prestigious industry award was presented during the Solid Waste Association of North ...
The National Waste & Recycling Association (NWRA) filed comments with the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s committee on its draft framework, “A Framework for Equitable Allocation of Vaccine for the Novel Coronavirus,” requesting the committee recognize members of the waste and recycling industry as high priorities to receive any potential COVID-19 ...
Cornerstone Environmental Group, LLC announced that Christopher C. Peters has joined the firm, and will serve as client manager in the Bolingbrook, Illinois office, focusing on client relations and business development. He will use his considerable expertise in cost control, operations management, and regulatory compliance to help Cornerstone's clients with landfill field operations, ...
The National Waste & Recycling Association (NWRA) announced its 2020 Drivers of the Year and Operator of the Year winners. The awards recognize drivers and operators from member companies who put safety as their top priority. “Our members and their employees are dedicated to keeping our communities clean and safe on a daily basis. It is important that we recognize the drivers and ...
Penton Media's WasteExpo is proud to announce that T. Boone Pickens, founder of Mesa Petroleum, BP Capital and Clean Energy, will make the Keynote Address at this year's WasteExpo, which will be held May 9-12 at the Dallas Convention Center in Dallas, Texas. The Keynote Address at WasteExpo will be held on Wednesday, May 11, at 9 a.m. Mr. Pickens' address will be on the topic "Solving Our ...
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: China Solid Waste Disposal Industry Report, 2012 http://www.reportlinker.com/p0165493/China-Solid-Waste-Disposal-Industry-Report-2012.html#utm_source=prnewswire&utm_medium=pr&utm_campaign=Waste_management With the fast growing economic progression, the solid waste disposal market of China has ...
Republic Services, Inc. (NYSE:RSG) today announced the appointment of Robert Boucher, 47, to the position of executive vice president-operations, effective August 24, 2012. As head of the company's operations, Mr. Boucher will report to Donald W. Slager, president and chief executive officer. Reporting to Mr. Boucher will be the regional senior vice presidents of operations as well as the ...
Republic Services, Inc. (NYSE: RSG) today announced it has restructured its field and corporate operations to create a more efficient and competitive company. These changes include consolidating field regions from four to three and areas from 28 to 20, relocating office space and reducing administrative staffing levels. Republic expects to record expenses of approximately $30 million with ...
From 13th to 15th September, São Paulo, Brazil is hosting EXPOSUCATA, Latin America’s biggest trade show for the municipal solid waste recycling industry, which is opening its doors for the eleventh time. An unmissable event for all companies operating in the waste collection, transport and treatment sectors. A unique chance to network, get a sneak preview of the industry’s ...
Civil & Environmental Consultants, Inc. (CEC) welcomes Scott Johnson, Senior Project Manager in the Waste Management practice of the firm's Phoenix office. At CEC, Johnson will contribute to the Solid Waste Industry Consulting Group. Most recently with Cornerstone, Johnson brings 20 years of experience in civil and environmental engineering and a background in both consulting and the private ...
BioLargo, Inc. subsidiary Odor-No-More, Inc., through its leadership team, has pledged $60,000 to the Environmental Research and Education Foundation (EREF) to fund scholarships for graduate students conducting research into solid waste management. EREF scholarships recognize graduate students pursuing excellence in solid waste management research and education. Recipients are chosen based on ...
Cornerstone Environmental Group, LLC announced that senior project manager Heather Cavanagh, PE, has joined Cornerstone in the newly established Jacksonville, Florida office, where she will lead a team to expand Cornerstone's services in the Southeast. Using her skills in solid waste, wastewater, and water treatment design, Ms. Cavanagh will work with Cornerstone's clients on economically ...
RUTLAND, VT -- (Marketwire) -- 07/06/10 -- Casella Waste Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CWST), a regional solid waste, recycling, and resource management company, announced today that Edwin D. Johnson, an experienced industry finance executive, has joined the company as senior vice president and chief financial officer. "Ed has an outstanding record of accomplishment, spanning over thirty-one years as a ...
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Integrated Waste Services Association (IWSA) renewed their Alliance, originally signed on October 13, 2005, to continue providing IWSA's members, small businesses and others with information and training resources to protect the safety and health of employees in the municipal solid waste industry. The Alliance will focus on hauler ...
Cornerstone Environmental Group, LLC announced that industry veteran Randall W. Russell, PE, has joined Cornerstone and will be expanding the company's solid waste, water, and wastewater services in the Southeast. Building upon nearly 30 years of success working closely with municipalities and major private solid waste firms, Mr. Russell will work with Cornerstone's clients on permitting, ...
Penton's Waste Industry Group today announced a global partnership with the Australasian Waste & Recycling Expo (AWRE) to co-market their respective content and live events. This alliance brings together the largest solid waste and recycling tradeshows — North America's WasteExpo and Australia's AWRE — to give attendees an even broader global perspective of the industry. For 45 ...
Cornerstone Environmental Group, LLC announced that BioCNG, LLC (a wholly owned subsidiary of Cornerstone) commissioned a turnkey BioCNG? vehicle fuel system at the St. Landry Parish Solid Waste Disposal Landfill, in Washington, LA. The system is the state's first compressed landfill gas fueling station. The BioCNG system will supply up to 250 gasoline gallon equivalents (GGE) per day of BioCNG ...
PennWell Corporation's Waste Management World (WMW) magazine has been awarded the Waste to Energy Research and Technology Council's (WTERT) award for making a significant contribution to global sustainable waste management during the first decade of the 21st century. WTERT is part of Columbia University's Earth Engineering Center in New Yorkand the award - an original bronze statuette by ...
Tetra Tech, Inc. (NASDAQ: TTEK) announced today that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Cornerstone Environmental Group of Middletown, New York and anticipates closing this transaction in May 2015. Cornerstone is an environmental engineering and consulting firm focused on solid waste markets in the United States. The company has more than 160 employees and approximately $30 million ...
Leading environmental services company Republic Services, Inc. (NYSE:RSG) today dedicated a state-of-the-art landfill and transfer station in Texas to meet the Rio Grande Valley's waste needs for the next 100 years. The new La Gloria landfill is a highly-engineered facility and was designed as a safe, environmentally sound system for waste disposal. The 2037-acre landfill replaces Republic's ...