• Regional Solid Waste Management Plans
• Corporate Solid Waste Management Plans
• Household Hazardous Waste Plans
• Collection Productivity and Routing Studies
• Privatization Studies

Your waste stream is valuable. With today’s energy prices, many commodity components of your waste stream are considerably more valuable than even one year ago.  Although the process of handling and disposing of waste has increased in complexity, gone are the days of looking at your garbage as merely a liability.  Forward Footprint can assist your municipality or business in the development and execution of a solid waste and recycling plan that addresses stringent regulations and public concerns.  We specialize in developing plans that maximize service while keeping costs to a minimum. Our plans not only meet or exceed state and federal requirement levels; they are designed to create measurable value for your stakeholders.

Forward Footprint’s waste management staff includes specialists in solid waste, recycling, geotechnical engineering, civil engineering, environmental planning, landfill gas and leachate management, economics, construction quality assurance, and construction management.

The values of many business organizations and public agencies have shifted toward the green movement and sustainable practices are now the standard.  In this day and age, success comes when organizations operate with goals of achieving sound financial discretion, social approval, and environmental accountability.  In an organization’s pursuit of these ends, it must adopt sustainable business practices in the development of new products and markets, organizing and simplifying operations, and minimizing waste.

Planning is essential for productive solid waste management.
Measurement and evaluation of an organization's solid waste needs are crucial to finding cost-effective and environmentally appropriate alternatives.

Forward Footprint’s concise method of waste management planning consists of the following:

• a detailed waste flow analysis, including classification, measurement, and assessment of waste output;
• waste flow forecasting ;
• evaluation of waste collection and transfer process;
• recycling and material recovery survey;
• study and comparison of alternative technologies;
• generation, distribution, and review of waste service vendor proposals;
• evaluation of economic feasibility and financing options.

We believe that sustainable business principles will soon be the global benchmark of successful organizations. Forward footprint can create and execute sustainable waste management plans that will reduce costs notably while attaining environmental accountability.