Background: The commercial municipal solid waste market is segmented into many specialized options. These specialized markets share a common original federal legislative market driver, the Solid Waste Act of 1965. The Resource Recovery Act of 1970, Resources Conservation & Recovery Act (“RCRA”) and subsequent laws have reflected policymaker’s and the public’s increasing desire to promote waste reduction, reuse, and recycling (so called 3Rs) rather than waste disposal.

Since the original goals of the waste industry were to provide sanitation services so as to protect human health, the 3Rs represent a paradigm shift for the waste industry into resource reuse and recovery. In essence, it also blurred the historical differences between the waste and scrap industries.

Along with this paradigm shift has come recognition of the need to isolate and manage differently some the historical constituents in municipal solid waste. As a result, specialized services have also evolving to manage medical wastes, rechargeable batteries, and other constituents.

Scope of Brief: Each monthly brief will typically focus on a single topic. The brief will provide background intelligence gathered from available proprietary and public sources. When there are differing vested interests amongst the sources, the intelligence from those sources will be appropriately critique and qualified. The analysis provided will represent an independent, third party perspective.

Brief’s Purpose: These briefing are for executives in the commercial municipal waste management sector. The purpose is to provide accurate, reliable intelligence to aid their decision-making and to provide an independent, third party analysis of the situation to assist them in making their own decision-making about company actions and strategy.

Principal Author: Mr. Cary Perket has over 30 years experience in waste management. Mr. Perket background includes regulatory positions with State of Minnesota and Wisconsin waste programs, consultant to manufacturers on waste management, management of remediation projects, and the permitting of waste management facilities. In recent years, Mr. Perket has supervised the ongoing Chartwell survey of municipal solid waste facilities and analysis of gate rates/tipping fees changes in the United States.

Brief’s Topics: It is inherent to this type of consulting service that the topics are not fixed in advance as the priority of any given topic may change based on the gathered intelligence; the intelligence gathering effort often is not able to be “scheduled”; and the analysis could find intelligence “gaps” that need to be further investigated. Further,if a priority need arises from the client base, we want to be able to address that need as soon as possible.

However, the primary focus of the Chartwell Intelligence and Analysis Briefing will be municipal solid waste markets. Since these markets are driven and shaped by regulations, it is inherent that reports will comment on regulatory market drivers.

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Report: The report is provided as a PDF file. When printed, the Chartwell Solid Waste Digest Briefing is approximately 15 pages in length with colored graphics and tables on most pages.

About The Envirobiz Group: The Envirobiz Group is a professional services firm that collects and analyzes market intelligence.

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