“What’s really driving a lot of our clients, with respect to solid waste, is more landfill closure and the lack of landfill space,” adds Greg Chung, environmental engineer for Kennedy/Jenks Consultants. Kennedy/Jenks works with clients, either corporations or municipalities, to build wastewater treatment facilities.
Doug Parker, associate professor at the University of Maryland, notes that there have been many concerns about the water quality in the Chesapeake Bay. Other state and local governments are clamping down more and more on how companies are allowed to dispose of their waste. Chung also points out that landfills can close, making it more imperative that companies look for alternatives to waste disposal.