More Than a Consulting Firm-We Design, Build and Operate

“Yes”- Cambridge Designs, Builds, and Operates Solid Waste facilities. We won’t leave you with a “Study on the Shelf” (although we are known for our excellent, engineered, quantitative Consulting Work Products). But, as “Doers” and “Operators”, and not just “Planners” and “Designers”, we visualize where the Project’s Design Goals, and we therefore envision an optimal, successful, (and truly practical) culmination of the entire effort.

A “Rapid Fix” for Your Waste Handling Crisis-Yes: Advanced Technology Baling + Wrapping

A Rapid Fix for a Solid Waste Crisis: Baling. What to do with the many tons of Solid Waste that continue to come into a distressed Landfill or other facility, day after day, relentlessly ? Let us Turnkey a project for you and rapidly get our arms around your busy facility. We will size, specify, import, set up, commission, and long term operate (if so desired) you entire Baling + Wrapping operation. Baling buys you precious time while you develop and implement an optimum disposal system. For example, if your definitive solution is to combust Bales at a modern, environmentally controlled Waste to Energy (WTE) plant, it will take some years (sometimes 3 to 5 years) to get to a commercial operational start for the WTE plant. During this time, Bales can be produced and safely stored (no gas, no leachate, no odors, no vectors) for later combustion at the WTE plant.

Waste-to-Energy: Liability Becomes a Renewable Asset-Yes

The Cambridge team includes of experts that have actually designed, built, operated, and managed dozens of Waste-to-Energy (WTE) facilities throughout North America and Europe. These amazing facilities can offset enormous amounts of fossil fuels for power generation by taking advantage of the significant energy content present in ordinary, everyday solid waste streams. The plants provide an opportunity to recover metals from the waste, and leave only a small combustion residue that represents 10% or less of the original volume of the raw waste stream. Environmentally sensitive countries like Switzerland, for example, rely almost entirely on dozens of WTE plants located throughout that nation. Landfill has been brought down to virtually zero, but even recycling programs have been optimized toward the goal of recycling only non-combustibles (TAG = Tin, Aluminum, Glass) while combusting for energy most plastics. These plastics had previously flowed to unreliable brokers who transported the low-value plastics to developing nations. In these developing nations, much of the plastic generated in Europe or North America can be open burned or tipped to rivers and shorelines, where it added to the enormous Ocean Plastics problem.

Integrated Solid Waste Systems-Yes

Integrated Solid Waste Systems (“ISWS”) are developed with every aspect of a region’s solid waste taken into consideration. This begins with a thorough understanding of waste generation patterns and collection system in place and ends with final disposal or recovery of waste.

Consulting: Full Breadth of Expertise-Yes

Cambridge provides “Straight Talk” (we don’t like jargon either !) consulting services to industry stakeholders that could be looking at acquisitions, seeking to identify and correct inefficiencies, or conducting strategic planning. Our experience as world class facility builders and operators allow us to identify the pitfalls and delays many projects face. With us you will avoid “Consultant Ping-Pong.”

The Toughest Distressed Landfill Remediation Projects-Yes

Cambridge develops and implements the necessary plans and budgets to resolve all the complex issues related to dumpsites. We can “Short Term Stabilize” to allow the site to begin to be managed. (Note: the Fire Department Water Trucks, or the Airport Fire Service Water Trucks, bless their souls, just won’t be able to get the Landfill under control !) We then redesign and upgrade them into modern facilities that manage waste in an environmentally acceptable manner, or we close them for good. We focus on the problems our clients face today with an eye on the future demands. This allows us to design plans than do not limit our clients’ options for long-term solutions.