Scott Woods, founder of the compost equipment company, highlights a new facility built at a Republic Services landfill as well as trends around PFAS, community relations, infrastructure funding and more.
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As composting infrastructure scales up, operators’ technology needs and options have grown increasingly complex.
Scott Woods, CEO of compost equipment company Sustainable Generation, points to a recently opened Republic Services facility in California that his company worked on as one “gold-standard” example of how modern facilities are evolving. The positive aerated static pile system, which opened at the Otay Landfill in Chula Vista last year, is described as the state’s first fully solar-powered composting operation and can process 200 tons per day. The facility, designed by SCS Engineers, recently won an award from the National Waste & Recycling Association.
Woods’ background includes a stint as CEO of Peninsula Compost in Delaware — which he ended multiple years before that facility was shut down by state regulators. He founded Sustainable Generation in 2012. The company is a licensed sales and service provider of the Gore Cover composting system, which focuses on aerated static pile setups that involve covers controlled by winding machines. This system is one of multiple alternatives to traditional open windrow systems.
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