Bio

Mr. Melan has a depth of experience in the solid waste industry spanning over 40 years. Coming from the owner’s side he spent over 30 years with WM in Wisconsin and Illinois as a site engineer focused on environmental permit compliance, capital construction projects of all sorts in the waste industry (liner, cap, leachate, gas), long term planning and assembling capital budgets.

He also served as Operations District Manager at 3 different sites (Illinois and Indiana) when at WM managing staff and vendors and managing spending and the operations budget P&L. He served as Environmental Lead at Republic Services’ second largest landfill located in Indiana. He led a team that managed compliance and capital construction projects similar to those at WM and developed long term plans and budgets. This included assisting Operations regularly to manage projects and budgets.

Serving as the Solid Waste Market Lead out of the Naperville, IL office, our team performs landfill compliance and permitting efforts on behalf of numerous leading solid waste companies in the industry. This effort extends from WI through IL and IN to NE, KS and MO as well as more local operation and management field duties. This experienced team assists sites with surface emission monitoring, wellfield tuning, wellfield troubleshooting, pump and wellfield maintenance, pipe and pump installation, solid waste permits and renewals, solid waste reporting to name a few.