Relying on strategic initiatives not only to develop institutional capacity, but also to expose new growth opportunities, Louis Paolino, Jr., has led multiple corporations to greater productivity and success. Over the course of his more than 30 years in business, the Drexel University civil engineering program alumnus has helped increase revenue at companies such as Grand Point Transfer in Philadelphia, Eastern Environmental Services in New Jersey, and other soil remediation and waste handling companies. Today, Louis Paolino, Jr., serves as the CEO and president of Wenonah Investments, which he owns.Soil remediation involves the purification of soils to mitigate or remove the presence of toxic contaminants. This process is often undertaken in conjunction with other efforts at environmental remediation, such as the cleansing of air and water.Most often, soil remediation seeks to fix the damage done by human-manufactured harmful substances that have been discharged into the environment as byproducts of industry. These contaminants can include heavy metals such as lead, as well as pesticides, fuel, petroleum hydrocarbons, mining byproducts, and other materials. Governments in many Western nations today regularly look to environmental remediation to make habitats safer and more economically productive for humans and wildlife.
With a broad entrepreneurial background spanning New Jersey and Pennsylvania, Louis Paolino Jr. has led companies such as Mace Security International. As CEO and president of Eastern Environmental Services in the late 1990s, Louis Paolino Jr. guided one of the country’s leading waste- services companies. Environmental remediation is a broad field that includes hazardous and non-hazardous solid-waste management. As defined by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), this includes recycling and composting, which help reduce landfill needs and conserve resources. Another area of focus is energy conservation, with non-recyclable materials undergoing processes such as gasification, combustion, and landfill gas recovery and anaerobic digestion. End products are often heat and electricity, with these pathways to energy generation helping decrease carbon emissions as well as landfill methane emission. Treatment and disposal is often the best option in cases where toxicity is present or the volume of waste material is high. Physical strategies include shredding and the use of processes such as incineration. Well-monitored US landfills are engineered to strictly comply with applicable environment laws and regulations.
With extensive experience leading public and private companies, Louis Paolino Jr. has helmed those in areas ranging from waste services to soil remediation. In the latter sphere, Louis Paolino Jr. guided a Philadelphia firm that in the early 1990s secured one of the nation’s initial permits for the burning of contaminated soil as a way of cleaning and remediating it. Today, there are several techniques of soil remediation, or soil washing, in play as a way of removing pesticides, heavy metals, creosote, and hydrocarbons from the ground. The bioremediation pathway makes use of anaerobic and aerobic bacteria species in breaking down pollutants such as petroleum and other fossil fuels. Unfortunately, the application is typically limited to areas in which a temperate climate is present and moisture provided by at least sporadic rain. With colder climates, soil must be covered and/or insulated, with the clean-up duration lengthening. Another approach is thermal soil remediation, which involves the heating up of contaminated material to a temperature range of 650-900 degrees Fahrenheit. When water and hydrocarbon impurities have evaporated, the material is discharged to a unit which utilizes water for dust control and cooling purposes.A third approach, air sparging, involves the injection of air at large volumes into a specific soil stratum, which in turn pushes organic vapors in a targeted direction for carbon filtering.
