Consulting

We help our clients

• Originate and refine ideas for waste and resource management projects
• Select technology, create a conceptual design and define a development approach
• Make business arrangements by procuring vendors (public clients) and preparing winning proposals (private clients)
• Acquire sites, environmental permits, and supporting business arrangements for feedstock supply, product marketing and residuals management.
• Support acquisition of financing.
• Achieve, sustain and enhance commercial operation.
• Register, manage and monetize environmental attributes.

We have provided many of these services under long-term engagements with:

• The Municipal Review Committee, Inc. (MRC), which manages MSW on behalf of 115 member municipalities in Maine.  CRMC provided services to the MRC in support of waste disposal arrangements with a waste-to-energy facility in Orrington, Maine, from 1991 through 2018; and has been supporting development and operation of a mixed-waste processing facility in Hampden, Maine since 2013.
• The Town of Nantucket, which manages solid waste through contract operations of a materials recycling facility (MRF), MSW and biosolids co-composting facility, landfill, transfer station, and citizens drop-off facility. CRMC supports the Town in oversight of operating arrangements and compliance with the contract operator and is working with the Town to evaluate and implement the next generation of solid waste management after the existing arrangements expire in 2025.
• The Town of Bourne, MA, Department of Integrated Solid Waste Management, which owns and operates a landfill, a transfer station, a citizen’s drop-off center and a recycling center. CRMC provides landfill gas flow measurement and calibration services in support of performance improvement and permit calibration. CRMC has also assisted Bourne with multiple projects since 2002 for construction and demolition debris processing; landfill gas recovery and use; anaerobic digestion of organic wastes; electricity generation; landfill leachate management; and acceptance of municipal combustion facility residues.
• An unregulated subsidiary of an electric utility, for whom CRMC originated, acquired rights for, developed, and supported financing, construction and commercial operation for eight landfill gas-to-electricity facilities along the east coast (for which CRMC’s residual interest was sold back to the subsidiary after commercial operation) and provided services to support development of several dozen additional such facilities across the U.S.

Selected other client engagements have included the following: