During a presentation on mitigating contamination, a key consideration in raising recycling rates, Stacey Demers, project director at SCS Engineers, said a good recycling system design considers the specific “audience” it serves, whether it’s a single-family home, a college campus with transient students, or a multifamily apartment complex.
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About Stacey Demers: Stacey Demers is a Vice President of SCS Engineers, a LEED® Accredited Professional, and our National Expert on Solid Waste Composition Studies. She has over three decades of experience in the environmental field, specializing in solid waste and energy. Ms. Demers provides strong technical and analytical skills in planning, statistics, sample design for environmental programs, and modeling. Projects include program assessments, data analyses, database management, sampling protocols and associated field sampling specific to sustainability metrics. She is also the director of the Sustainable Materials Management Technical Division of the Solid Waste Association of North America.
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