Learn the necessary steps to get your utility up and moving in this water resources and energy management, online training webinar.

Change starts with people. Whether your focus is stormwater pollution, energy conservation, pavement restoration, or recycling, a successful public outreach campaign resonates with your target audience and leads to long-lasting behavior change. Join Erica Mahgerefteh of SGA to explore a proven 5-step approach to crafting a successful outreach campaign based on real-world examples of the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Learn about the advantages pressure sewer systems can provide your wastewater utilities for remedying infiltration and inflow problems in buried infrastructure.

Explore optimum cell geometry, factors, and considerations, & how you can design & build the best cell configuration for your landfill.

Explore GPS fleet management systems, and how you can implement telematics in your fleet to improve safety, efficiency, and reduce fuel.

Put your program into action! Join Antonia Graham to learn how to conduct a Zero Waste analysis, develop your Zero Waste community plan, write your Zero Waste ordinance, and engage your community and officials.

In this course we’ll explore the chemical and physical characteristics of wastes burned, the relationship between quantity and characteristics, and their impact on air pollutant emissions (e.g., particulate matter, acid gases, nitrogen oxides, metals, etc.).

In this presentation, we’ll explore the history of Anaerobic Digestion and its implementation, as well as discuss and differentiate the different Anaerobic Digestion systems available (e.g., batch, continuous, wet, dry, etc.).

Few other activities in the waste management industry are repetitive as waste collection and transfer. Think about it: a single automated residential route truck may make 1,000 lifts per day. That’s a quarter of a million lifts every year! By applying process improvement techniques to your waste collection and transfer operations, you can easily evaluate – and improve – your systems.

Material Recovery Facilities (MRFs), compost facilities, and other waste diversion operations are essentially factories. In fact, because materials pass through multiple, repetitive steps, diversion and recycling operations have the closest ties to the typical factory…and with process improvement tools and techniques and opportunities.

Whether your landfill is processing 5 tons a day or thousands, it’s not a one-step process. Between daily waste processing, soil excavation, cell construction, daily cover, and traffic management (just to name a few) you have a lot on your hands…and by implementing process improvements…a lot of opportunity.

Join Sutherland as he starts at the source of the problem – “Street Dirt” – exploring the contaminated sediment-like material that accumulates on urban streets and highways, the pollutants it contains, and its chemical and physical characteristics that influence the effectiveness of a cleaning program. We’ll discuss its influence on street runoff and why the quality of street runoff is important to an effective stormwater management program. Additionally, we’ll review the essential elements of a street sweeping program for maximum effectiveness, outline the appropriate way to manage these elements, and identify the associated program and water quality benefits. In this webcast, Sutherland will also introduce and discuss the various types of street cleaners exploring both their advantages and disadvantages. And, we’ll learn how to test street sweeper pickup performance, how to evaluate the results, and why both matter.

Join author and industry expert, Walter R. Niessen, for an advanced 2-session course exploring the fundamental laws, relationships, and calculation methods of combustion systems (e.g., heat and material balances, equilibrium and kinetics calculations, etc.); combustion system component design features, operating characteristics and their impact on performance; and opportunities and challenges in waste-to-energy applications.

Reduce your operation's risk by conducting a straightforward but effective on-site hazard assessment. Join Nellie J. Brown to explore an efficient safety auditing protocol for assessing the hazards and risks of anaerobic digesters and related systems. In this webinar we'll outline how to effectively observe and trace the process steps of manure collection, digester feedstock additions, anaerobic digestion, solids separation/dewatering and storage, and biogas distribution, in order to identify current, missing, and needed control measures, performance and maintenance issues and opportunities, accident/injury/symptom histories, employee observations, and training needs.

What is on municipalities’ wish lists and how can you best address these business terms and performance specifications? Join Constance Hornig, Esq. to explore the challenges and terms in contracting with municipalities, and how to successfully reach agreement.

Examine the methods to control landfill fires and the inter-agency incident command structure in this solid waste management, online training webinar.

In this presentation, we’ll delve into the emerging conversion technologies, their key elements and differentiators from traditional combustors, their design and operating characteristics, and their process flow and steps (pre-processing, general heating, etc.). Within this discussion, we’ll detail the features of system alternatives for conversion technologies, including: pyrolysis heating; hot gas surface contact heating; direct heating; and partial combustion heating. Additionally, we’ll cover the principals of gasification processes; the resulting steams, sidestreams, and residues; and we’ll explore the utilization options for the synthesis gas generated by conversion technologies. Niessen will detail and discuss the alternatives in conversion technologies, including: Pan American Resources, International Environmental Solutions, SilvaGas, Alter NRG, InEnTec LLC, TPS Termiska, Ebara TwinRec Technology, Nippon Steel DMF, Consutech Air Oxidized Hearth Gasifier alternative, and Thermoselect. And finally, we’ll complete our course with a discussion of the issues and challenges of selecting advanced technologies, and a recommended approach to effective system selection.

Potable groundwater resources in urban areas are often threatened by various plumes of mobile contaminants. Increasingly, groundwater professionals are being called upon to not only determine the source of individual plumes, but to apportion the contributions of multiple sources within a composite plume. Although the principal contaminants of concern in these plumes are commonly volatile organic compounds or heavy metals, often the sources can be more definitively identified through analysis of other trace constituents in the plumes.

Join Michael Perez to explore the growing use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs/Drones) in site inspections; the current regulations and opportunities for commercial applications; the implementation best practices (e.g., flight path planning and programming, photogrammetric site visualization, elevation modeling, progress documentation and assessment, etc.); and how you can implement UAVs at your sites as a thorough, cost-effective site inspection tool.

Learn how you can use a hybrid, advanced geosynthetic cover to reduce post-closure costs, leachate production, & improve gas collection.

Learn how to develop and implement effective fill sequence and soil management plans to maximize your landfill airspace.

Join Mike Michels, V.P. of Cornerstone Environmental Group, LLC, in exploring today’s innovation and application of biogas (beyond electric generation and boiler fuel) as new solutions benefiting your bottom-line, and mapping a plan for tomorrow.

Join Bob Beyer from Jeneer Group for a FREE webcast exploring the latest technology in landfill leachate pump operation and maintenance, and how you can integrate remote pneumatic pump monitoring into your operations to improve pump up-time and performance, improve data management, and reduce your maintenance time AND cost.

Zero Waste…it’s a great idea…but can it really be achieved? Join Antonia Graham to answer this question for your community through an exploration of the materials, challenges, and players involved.

With gas on the rise, environment on the mind, and budgets on the chopping block, can you fuel and green the fleet? According to biogas expert Mark J. Torresani, P.E., yes…and cost effectively.

Keep your aging workforce happy and healthy! Join Nellie J. Brown from Cornell University to explore the aging process, its growing impact in the workplace, and the recommended strategies to reduce age-associated injuries and accidents at your organization. In this webinar we’ll outline how implementing aging strategies can better retain experienced workers AND improve the health, safety, and productivity of your entire workforce.

Learn how to improve your waste compaction, soil management, and equipment utilization to optimize your daily cover operations.

Protect your organization. Your Risk Management Department may review your contract insurance requirements, but risk managers don’t live and breathe trash. Join Constance Hornig, Esq. to explore the specific risks inherent in waste management, and learn all you never wanted to know – but SHOULD know – about insurance against MSW contract risks.

You've heard the glowing reports of how giants like GE, NASCAR, and Toyota have implemented "process improvement" tools (e.g., Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing,
CEM, etc.) to streamline their operations and reduce costs…but what exactly are they talking about? What are Six Sigma, Lean Manufacturing, and the rest of the tools? And how can you apply these to your operations and reap the benefits?

Get to the bottom of the Zero Waste! Join Antonia Graham to explore the concept of Zero Waste, the regulations behind the movement, and how to set-up a municipal/local recycling program that achieves Zero Waste at the local level.

Explore the mechanics of landfill fires and the best techniques in landfill fire control in this solid waste management, online training webinar series.

In today's economic environment, firms more than ever are looking to streamline their operations, minimize costs, and reduce delays. As alternative energy is becoming increasingly popular and profitable, many firms are finding that air permitting can have significant impacts on these goals.

Join industry expert, Constance Hornig, Esq. to examine both sides of this quality/cost coin:

1. encouraging “best service” by giving your contractor the right  to term extensions for demonstrated “super-performance” of identified performance perquisites, and

2. securing the “most reasonable price” by limiting your contractor’s risks and  correspondingly reducing its projected service costs.

Explore chemical technology that allows a liquid deodorizer to volatilize into a dry vapor state to effectively combat airborne malodor.

Learn about the steps landfill managers can take to dramatically reduce the risk of a major fire in this solid waste management, online training webinar.

We all want to reduce our waste, but how much can we really accomplish? And for large organizations (municipalities, universities, military bases, etc.) with high and visible diversion goals, how much can we accomplish WITHOUT breaking the bank? Join Alan Housley to explore waste diversion and its available technologies, and how you can design, measure, and implement your waste diversion programs to meet your diversion goals, meet your CO2/GHG reduction goals, AND reduce your operating costs.

Organic waste conversion is quickly emerging as the leading technology for waste reuse and energy harvesting, and as such, many organizations are faced with the challenge of selecting the best collection, separation, and processing for their organization. Join Ernest Ruckert III, PE for the third session in our 5-Session Organics Management Master Class Series exploring the organic waste collection, separation, and processing technologies and systems available to you, and how to choose the best technology and systems for your organization.

Join Daryl R. O’Dell, P.E., P.Eng., for the fourth session in our 5-Session Organics Management Master Class Series exploring organic diversion, its impact on landfill gas generation, how direct or indirect energy recovery from diverted organic materials can offset a reduction in energy sales, and how to implement planning that leads to system operations success.

Join Kyle Nay, for the fifth session in our 5-Session Organics Management Master Class Seriesexploring air quality and emissions impacts and concerns specific to organics diversion; the best management air permitting planning and execution concepts, approaches, and practices; and how to prepare an effective air emissions evaluation and permitting plan positioning your project for regulatory success.

With electricity prices falling and expected gasoline and diesel price increases, conversion to CNG for vehicle fleet fueling offers one of the most attractive financial and environmental opportunities available to digester biogas owners. Converting 50 cfm of biogas to CNG can provide approximately 200 gasoline gallon equivalents (GGEs) per day, and its use can save 50% the cost of gasoline or diesel, as well as lowering greenhouse gas emissions ~85-90% when compared to diesel. Now, thanks to new systems entering the market, biogas flows as low as 50 cfm can be upgraded to produce fuel that can be used for CNG fuel, natural gas engines, boilers, and other energy production, opening up new possibilities for small to medium-sized on-farm or centralized digesters.

It’s been a year since Hurricane Sandy. Are you ready to face the next storm? Join industry expert and Hurricane Sandy survivor Armand Lembo, Jr. to explore the critical steps in emergency planning and recovery plans from a waste management perspective.

Examine landfill fire health & safety issues and how to keep equipment operators & fire fighters safe in this solid waste management, online training webinar.

Join international stormwater quality expert Roger Sutherland to explore a radically different and more effective means to measure BMP effect and progress—street dirt. In this webinar, we’ll discuss how studying the change in street dirt chemistry is more effective than outfall monitoring in measuring BMP effectiveness; its physical and chemical characteristics; its sources; how easy and inexpensive it is to collect and analyze street dirt; and why it is essential to stormwater programs throughout the country.

Explore how you can use succession planning to identify, capture, and transfer the knowledge in your organization…before it’s gone.

Join Walter Niessen for the first session in our 3-part Incineration Series exploring the current options in mass burn incineration systems, their design and operating components, their relationship to the basic characteristics of domestic solid waste, and the special characteristics of refuse derived fuel (RDF) based combustion systems.

Join Dr. Tony Sperling as we explore the causes and mechanics of landfill fires and how to detect them in this solid waste management, online training webinar.

Join Aaron Weier to explore Geographic Information Systems (GIS) (e.g., key components, applications, and workflows), and the best practices to implement GIS at your landfill to better analyze AND manage your landfill gas data.

Join Lance Roberts, William Slatosky, and Kyle Snyder and for a FREE webcast exploring waste gas-to-energy applications, technologies, real-world case studies (e.g., DC Water and Hickory Ridge Landfill), and how you can select, design, and implement waste gas-to-energy at your waste site.