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John Christopher Madole Associates (JCMA) is advancing technologies that allow for an integrated approach to the following important environmental issues:

Sustainable Waste Management	Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Renewable Energy	Improve Quality of Life
Reduce the Community's Carbon Footprint	Creation of "Green Jobs"

Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) - One of the world's largest renewable resources, what you typically find in a household garbage bag, urban plant debris, biosolids, and source separated organics from private, commercial, and industrial sources have traditionally been landfilled, incinerated or land applied, causing numerous health and environmental concerns. Amazingly, over 85% of the waste "thrown away" is recyclable, compostable or can produce clean energy.

Landfill Crisis - Landfills are closing or exhausting their remaining capacity, due to environmental restrictions, zoning laws, and other regulatory delays. Very few new landfills are opening to offset the looming space crisis. Meanwhile municipal waste continues to flow in greater volume. Handling the nation's waste stream has become a major problem and expensive for most communities. With more waste created daily, landfills worldwide are rapidly facing a capacity crisis.

Energy Independence - The United States has made a declaration of "Energy Independence" which charts a new course for clean and sustainable energy. The effort to advance "Green Energy" production has been picking up steam among many prominent political and business leaders throughout the nation. Obtaining "Green Energy" and working towards independence from fossil fuels, up until recently, has been a far off and expensive proposition for small communities. That notion is changing, due in part to advancing waste –to- energy technologies and markets. Every part of the world has the opportunity to benefit from a green economic recovery and transition to a new energy economy.

Low Emissions - A carbon footprint is "the total set of GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions caused directly and indirectly by an individuals, organizations, processes and manufacturing." Burning of fossil fuels is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, especially for power, cement, steel, textile, fertilizer, transportation and many other industries, which rely on fossil fuels (coal, electricity derived from coal, natural gas and oil). The major greenhouse gases emitted are carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydro-fluorocarbons (HFCs), etc, all of which increase the atmosphere's ability to trap infrared energy and thus affect the climate. Even landfills which install methane recovery operations capture, on the average, only 20% of the facility's total methane output.

Carbon credits - Carbon credits are a key component of national and international emissions trading systems that have been implemented to mitigate global warming. They provide a way to reduce greenhouse effect emissions on an industrial scale by capping total annual emissions and letting the market assign a monetary value to any shortfall through trading. Credits can be exchanged between businesses or bought and sold in markets at the prevailing market price.

Environmental Regulations Grow Stricter - Global concern about these ineffective and harmful methods has given rise to numerous restrictive regulations. These regulations have sharply increased costs and operator liabilities related to MSW disposal. They have also severely limited the future of landfills and the practice of incineration. In the United States, for example, many states are passing statutes limiting how much of the MSW stream can be buried in landfills. Costs to consumers are rising. As a result, there is a critical need for new methods and technologies to manage and convert MSW.

Can we afford to be a "throw-away" society? - Despite good-faith efforts, relatively little MSW is recycled. The remainder stands as a total loss of valuable raw materials to landfilling and incineration. The current practice of burying and burning MSW is not a sustainable solution for today's needs - or for future generations whose quality of living will be determined by current environmental practices.