Solid Waste Enterprise Fund Support (City of Baltimore, Maryland)
The City of Baltimore operates a full-scope solid waste management system for its residents. The City provides once-per-week collection of solid waste and once-per-week recycling for almost 200,000 households through its One Plus One program. These collection activities…
About the Fulton County Project
The Fulton County Mud Road Sanitary Landfill is an active permitted municipal solid waste (MSW) landfill that began accepting waste in 1989. The landfill consists of 10 constructed landfill cells and has an additional unconstructed capacity of approximately…
Guam Receivership
In March 2008 the U.S. District Court of Guam appointed GBB as Receiver of a solid waste system out of compliance for 22 years. Over an 11-year receivership GBB closed the Ordot Dump, opened the Layon Landfill, launched cart-based collection and island-wide recycling, and returned a self-financing authority to the Government of Guam.
Kent County, MI RFI/RFQ Documents
Kent County Waste-to-Energy Facility ExpansionRequest for Information / Request for QualificationsDocument Library:Drawings
Development of Prince William Eco-Park (Prince William County, Virginia)
GBB was selected by Prince William County, the second-most populous County in Virginia, located about 35 miles west of Washington, DC, to explore the renewable energy technologies available for use on the County landfill. For technologies found to…
Solid Waste Authority of Palm Beach County, FL - Waste-to-Energy Projects Assistance
As it embarked on a major capital expansion program that included the development of a new 3,000 TPD mass burn energy recovery facility on a design-build-operate basis, the Solid Waste Authority of Palm Beach County (Authority) issued a…
Lexington-Fayette County, KY
In January 2010, the GBB Project Team was selected by the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government (LFUCG) to provide a cutting-edge technology team to assemble a new, optimized routing-based, resource management system for LFUCG’s solid waste collection. Due to…
Metro Nashville, TN
As a result of GBB's comprehensive solid waste management analysis for the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County (Metro), Metro selected the alternative of replacing its aging and inefficient waste-to-energy Nashville Thermal Transfer Corporation facility ("Thermal") with…
City of Fort Worth, TX
GBB assisted the City of Fort Worth, Texas in planning and procuring collection and processing services for the various solid waste and recyclables streams generated by the 150,000 single-family and duplex residences and over 1,600 of the smaller…
Arlington, TX - Leasing out a Landfill
The City of Arlington, TX, signed an agreement with Republic Waste Services of Texas, Ltd (Republic) for Republic to lease and operate the City of Arlington Landfill on a long-term basis.Through this business arrangement, the City received up-front…
Portland, ME - Using Contracts to Save $1 Million
The City of Portland, Maine, announced, in the summer 2005, the selection of Commercial Paving & Recycling Company LLC of Scarborough, Maine, to run its Riverside Recycling Facility, a regional facility processing approximately 60,000 tons of material per…
Allentown, PA - Containing Costs for Waste Collection
''I'm pleased — it could have been a lot higher. Frank Bernheisel of GBB was extremely knowledgeable and helpful in the City of Allentown’s collection contract bid revision process which resulted in a substantially lower increase than expected.…
King County, WA - Auditing Transfer and Export Plans
“We were very pleased with the work product provided by GBB through our Solid Waste Export Plan--Third Party Review. I think the King County audience generally felt that the work was thought-provoking and insightful, reflecting a deep understanding…
Rivanna Solid Waste Authority, VA - Taking the Pulse of the Public
Residents of Charlottesville and Albemarle County, Virginia, have spoken: They want more opportunities to recycle and they are eager to have a more sustainable solid waste management system, even if it means paying more each month.These sentiments were…
New Orleans, LA - Auditing Curbside Collection
One of the many consequences of Hurricane Katrina in the City of New Orleans was the transformation of the solid waste curbside collection landscape. Given the shift and movement of population, the City needed to get a verified…
Santa Monica, CA - Improving Efficiency with Strategic Review and Procurement
The City of Santa Monica, CA, had a population of 92,000 in 2000, which was projected to increase by nearly 40% in the next 10 years. The City is comprised of 8.3 square miles with a balance of…
Emerald Coast Utilities Authority, FL - Collection Route Optimization in Pensacola
In late 2008, the Emerald Coast Utilities Authority (ECUA) in Pensacola, FL, added 13,000 customers, made changes to trash collection services, and added recycling collection services. With the challenge of these upcoming major changes, and with very little…
Maui County, HI - Reviewing and Auditing Composting Facilities
The County selected the consultant team led by GBB with the accounting firm of Levin & Hu and O2Compost to perform a Financial and Operational Audit of the award winning co-composting project managed under contract by EKO Systems…
Alexandria / Arlington County, VA
“I know I can speak for the Trustees in saying that GBB has been of enormous assistance to us. The firm has guided us and the two jurisdictions’ solid waste operations through some challenging times. The Trustees have…
Baltimore, MD - Saving Millions by Re-routing
GBB helped the City of Baltimore, MD re-routing its residential trash collection system. The route optimization project, expected to generate significant labor, fuel, equipment, and maintenance savings, was provided through a contract with the Northeast Maryland Waste Disposal…