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Presentations

John A. Merritt, principal, has spoken frequently at environmental conferences internationally. We are happy to provide printouts of the slides, upon which he based these presentations and which provide outlines of the key issues discussed.

Case study - Analysis of multi-family complex recycling services, Springfield, MA 6/15/99 - At Northeast Resource Recovery Conference, Managing Wastes - Year 2000; Boxborough, MA; June 15, 1999

Case study - A Municipality chooses not to privatize a C&D Landfill 10/28/98 - At the International Solid Waste Association's '98 World Conference, Competition and Contracting; Charlotte, NC; Oct 28, 1998

How to procure ash management and recycling services 10/27/97 - At WASTECON 1997, SWANA's 35th annual International Solid Waste  Exposition, Gateway to Success; St. Louis, MO; Oct 27-30, 1997

Regional, public-private waste management collaborations must remain public-private partnerships 9/29/97 - At the International Solid Waste Association's '97 World Conference, Towards Sustainability: Opportunities and Challenges; Wellington, New Zealand; Sep 29-Oct 3, 1997

  Should regional municipal solid waste consortia enter incentive based service contracts for professional management services? 4/23/97 - At the 5th annual North American Waste-to-Energy Conference; Research Triangle Park, NC; April 22-25, 1997

  Waste to Energy Ash: A regional solids waste consortium's search for answers 11/15/95 - At the 8th International Solid Waste Conference, Municipal Solid Waste Combuster Ash Utilization; Arlington, VA; Nov 15, 1995

Also 10/26/95 - At WASTECON 1995, SWANA's 33rd annual International Solid Waste Exposition, Public & Private: A Partnership for the future; Baltimore, MD; Oct 23-26, 1995

  Waste to Energy 1995: What are the issues? 10/25/95 - At WASTECON 1995, SWANA's 33rd annual International Solid Waste Exposition, Public & Private: A Partnership for the future; Baltimore, MD; Oct 23-26, 1995

Publications
John A. Merritt has published articles nationally on MSW issues. These articles have addressed such topics as landfill economics, waste material processing equipment, and combination transfer and recycling facilities. The most recent articles are listed below.

  Waste material handling, moving and processing
(Efficient and successful waste management will depend increasingly on sound financial analysis as well as technical innovation and sensitivity to environmental issues.
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MSW Management magazine; Dec, 1997; pg 37-41

  Summary of DEP 1997 Draft of Solid Waste Master Plan
SWANA Newsletter/Massachusetts Chapter; Oct, 1997

  Combination Waste Transfer and Recycling Facilities: Ingenious and cost-effective solutions - or cynical use of recycling's image?
MSW Management magazine; Jul-Aug, 1997

  Facility Profile: Springfield Waste to Energy
SWANA Newsletter/Massachusetts Chapter; June, 1997

  Sorting it All Out - A moving experience: Waste materials handling and processing equipment
(It takes some pretty exceptional machinery to segregate MSW on the fly with great precision and reliability in order to strike the most cost-effective balance between disposal and diversion possible.)
MSW Management magazine; May-June, 1997

  Space Wars
(Soaring permitting costs coupled with the scarcity of geotechnically suitable land make landfill acreage among the most valuable real estate around. A landfill manager must relentlessly pursue and capture every cubic inch of available airspace.)
MSW Management magazine; Mar-Apr, 1997

  Waste-to-Energy: Time to face the issues
(With all the challenges facing us - ash management, clean air, public attitudes, and stiff financial concerns - it's time that everyone with a stake in WTE get down to brass tasks.)
MSW Management magazine, Guest editorial; Jul-Aug,1995; pg 8-13

  WTE issues still burning in 1995
(For an integrated approach to waste management to succeed, waste to energy still must overcome some significant barriers.)
World Wastes magazine; Jul, 1995; pg 56-60

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