In the News
Preparing for PFAS
Much is still unknown regarding the impact of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), a group of approximately 3,500 manmade chemical compounds, on the environment. While the big questions are “How bad is it?” and “How bad will it get?”, impacts on landfill compliance monitoring programs are anticipated. In the June 2019 issue of Waste Today, GBB Senior Vice President Chris Lund, P.E., discusses the issue and what might be ahead.
Incentivizing Infrastructure for Sustainable Waste Solutions
Creative waste management infrastructure projects have the potential to help diversify reliance on less sustainable resources and aging infrastructures, achieve significant economic impacts and establish complementary businesses. What if municipalities and public agencies pursued, and were willing to develop, incentive programs for the siting of facilities needed to secure the future of waste management and recycling in America? In Waste Today, GBB Senior Vice President Tom Reardon challenges public-sector leaders to consider the use of incentives, like many cities did with Amazon’s HQ2, to encourage the development of sustainable waste management infrastructure projects.
Building Something Sustainable
Michigan’s Kent County sustainable business park is an example of how communities can implement a circular economy model to help better manage waste. In Waste Today, Steve Faber (Byrum & Fisk West Michigan Team Leader) and Ashlea Smith (GBB Marketing Manager) discuss how the County is working to make this ambitious project reality.
READ MORE »The Optimist’s Guide to Recycling
While nobody can predict the future, recyclable materials remain useful and valuable — we just have to adjust how we get them from generator to user. In the spirit of optimism, GBB Project Manager Kate Vasquez offers rebuttals to common misconceptions to reassure even the most doubtful about the future of recycling in Waste Today.
Markets and Marketability – Overcoming the barriers to accessing recycling markets
The future of recycling is dependent upon local market development and cleaning up our recycling streams. In the March/April issue of MSW Management, Brad Kelley, Corinne Rico and Ashlea Smith discuss some of the barriers to markets and marketability.
READ MORE »Circular Economy – Creating an Industrial Ecosystem
In a feature published in MSW Management, Kristen Wieland (Kent County, Dept. of Public Works, Marketing & Communications Manager), Steve Simmons (GBB President), and Jennifer Porter (GBB Senior Project Manager) tell the story of how Kent County, MI, is planning for a circular economy future.
READ MORE »Brad Kelley Interviewed About the Use of Technology/Big Data to Improve Efficiencies
Brad Kelley, GBB Senior Project Engineer, is interviewed in a Waste360 feature on the industry’s use of technology and big data analytics to keep fleets and landfill equipment up and running at optimal performance levels. With extensive experience identifying technologies that can be utilized by processing facilities to improve efficiency and record more data from the machines, he discusses how predictive maintenance will begin to overtake preventive maintenance in the processing industry as technology improves and becomes more widely-used.
Waste Today Executive Q&A: GBB President Steve Simmons
The December issue of Waste Today features an interview with Steve Simmons who became GBB President on January 1, 2019. Harvey Gershman, who has been President since co-founding the firm in 1980, transitioned to GBB Founder Owner Associate.
RFP Issued for Independent Engineer Services for Post Closure Care at Ordot Closure Facility in Guam
GBB, in its capacity as Receiver for the Guam Solid Waste Authority, is soliciting Proposals from Independent Engineer consultants to support the Trustee in its oversight of the Post Closure Care of the Ordot Dump Closure Facility.
Chris Lund Interviewed about Landfill Technologies in Waste360
GBB Senior Vice President Chris Lund, P.E., was interviewed in Waste360 about how the Internet of Things (IoT), remote monitoring and control technologies can be leveraged to make landfill operations more efficient.
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