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.