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.
