Associates

 

             Kelleher Environmental Associates

Maria Kelleher, M. Eng. P.Eng

Maria Kelleher is an environmental engineer who specializes in waste management issues.  She graduated with a Civil Engineering degree from University College, Cork, Ireland, and subsequently earned her Masters Degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of Toronto in 1982, and a Diploma in Environmental Health from McMaster University in 2000. 

She has over 25 years of experience in the environmental consulting industry, and has worked on a wide range of waste policy and strategy, quantification, management, planning and stewardship projects for a range of different materials for both private sector and public sector clients. 

Her areas of expertise include:

· solid waste management planning for municipal clients, with a focus on waste diversion and the use of economic instruments to promote waste reduction;

· financing mechanisms to promote waste diversion,

· organic waste management,

· greenhouse gas implications and life cycle assessment of waste management strategies. 

Ms Kelleher is also an experienced adult educator and facilitator, and has carried out a number of climate change and green energy related projects for public and private sector clients.

 

 

 

Janet Robins, M.E.S.

Ms Robins graduated from the Masters program at the Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Toronto and has been working as an environmental consultant for 20 years.  Ms Robins has a diverse range of environmental consulting experience focused on solid waste management policies and programs.  She specializes in the design and analysis of waste diversion programs and policies for municipal, provincial and federal clients as well as corporate clients.

Ms Robins has been involved in developing several waste management master plans and diversion strategies for the City of Regina, the Region of Peel, the Towns of Hanover and Walkerton and the City of Lethbridge which have addressed a wide range of waste management and diversion strategies including pay-as-you-throw and sustainable financing, as well as policies and programs to promote waste diversion in the multi-family, IC&I and C&D sectors.  She is currently involved in the development of a Waste Management Master Plan to help the Region of Halton achieve 70% diversion and is assisting the City of Regina develop an alternative sustainable financing strategy. She also wrote the Solid Waste Guidance Manual and Workbook for the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM), to become its key reference documents for municipal integrated waste management planning, including IC&I waste management. As part of the work, she helped deliver a series of Solid Waste as a  Resource workshops across the country.

Ms Robins has established expertise in develop waste diversion best practices for the multi-family sector having recently completed a project with Genivar to assess and recommend waste diversion technologies and approaches to achieve significant diversion in eleven pilot buildings as part of Toronto Mayor’s Tower Renewal project.  In addition, she has conducted similar work (as a sub-consultant) to identify best practice and innovative waste diversion programs and policies to promote waste diversion in the multi-family sector for the City of Hamilton and Metro Vancouver.

She has been instrumental in identifying and developing waste diversion strategies for the IC&I sector including the surveying, researching and writing waste diversion best practice reports for the Cities of Regina, Lethbridge and Ottawa.  She is currently undertaking a comprehensive IC&I waste characterization and waste diversion strategy for the City of Calgary in which she is lead in identifying and characterizing the IC&I waste stream for individual IC&I categories (to the 2 digit NACIS code) and identifying regulatory, economic and outreach policies and program to promote waste diversion in IC&I establishments located within the City.  This work builds on a previous project for the City of Calgary to develop a waste diversion strategy targeting the C&D sector.

Ms Robins has been involved in the climate change issue.  She wrote the Ontario municipal chapter of the Ontario business plan for the National Fleet program and developed a database of best practices profiling almost 20 municipal best practices in the area of climate change and energy efficiency. She also assessed the greenhouse gas impacts of 20 projects funded under the Enhanced Recycling Program, as part of the Federal Government’s Climate Change Action Fund.

Lori Andrews, P.Eng

Lori Andrews obtained her Bachelor degree in Environmental Engineering from Dalhousie University, Halifax. She has over seven years of environmental and engineering experience on a wide range of waste and climate change related projects.

Lori joined the Kelleher Environmental team in 2005. Since joining, she has applied her technical background on several projects to evaluate recycling, resource recovery and waste diversion systems.  She has been heavily involved in constructing models for waste management systems.  She constructed an IC&I waste allocation model for the City of Ottawa, and a similar model for the City of Lethbridge, Alberta.  She assisted with modeling the life-cycle of post consumer batteries for Environment Canada. She assessed the greenhouse gas impacts of 30 projects funded under the Enhanced Recycling Program, as part of the Federal Government’s Climate Change Action Fund.  She recently completed work on an ARMA (Alberta Recycling Management Authority) electronic waste tonnage flow for the province of Alberta, and is constructed a similar model for the Ontario WEEE Program.  In addition, she constructed a model for the flow of fluorescent bulbs and tubes in Ontario. Lori has recently completed monitoring  and analysis work on Multi family waste and recycling practices for the TCHC—Toronto Community Housing. She has recently contributed field work and analysis for a future of packaging audit  for the City of  Toronto.

As part of the Kelleher Environmental team, Lori is responsible for constructing numerical models for a range of waste management activities, particularly the flow of materials through waste systems, as well as the research support to construct these models.

Prior to Kelleher, Lori worked as a Technical Sales Engineer with WEMI and  Wright Tech assisting in mass flow analysis for industrial waste to energy (WTE) composting systems and “Biodryers”. Prior to Wright Tech, Lori was an environmental consultant with Resource Integration Systems (RIS) from 2001 to 2002. RIS is widely recognized as an international pioneer of “blue box” recycling programs. Prior to working in Canada, Lori worked as an engineering technology lab researcher in Berlin, Germany developing and testing filtration systems for plasma separation technologies at GKSS Research Institute.

During her engineering education, Lori accumulated two years of engineering experience as part of a Co-Operative education program. These included work experiences in Sweden at a hazardous waste facility (SAKAB) working on a soil remediation project, in Germany at an air emissions research institute performing modeling and lab analysis, Sydney, NS with AMEC (formerly Washburn Gillis Assoc.) consulting on water treatment systems and the Sydney Tar Ponds remediation project, at Health Canada in the Radiation Protection Lab programming a mechanical arm for lab tests on cellular phones and EMFs and at Canadian Standards Association (CSA) as a technical writer for published technical standards.

Lori recently received her P.Eng. license with the PEO.

Geoff Love, M. E. S.

Geoff Love is President of Love Environment, a small highly specialized Canadian environmental consulting company. Established in 2002, Love Environment provides environmental business and organizational development, strategic planning and project management expertise to its private sector, public sector and not-for profit clients. The firm works exclusively on environmental strategy, producer responsibility, green procurement, waste diversion and climate change issues, ideas and projects.

Love was the President of Resource Integrations Systems (laterally known as Enviros-RIS) from 1998 to 2002. RIS is widely recognized as an international pioneer of “blue box” recycling programs (tens of millions of households are now served world-wide). In addition to his extensive project work, Love led RIS’s expansion into 3 US offices in the late 1980s and 2 offices in Europe in the early 1990s. His skills and experience in business development and environmental issues management contributed to RIS becoming a leading international consultancy specializing in waste reduction and climate change.

Love spearheaded the sale of RIS to the UK green venture capital company Enviros in the late 1990s and served as President of Enviros RIS Canada for four years. As a highly experienced project manager, he has been working independently for the past seven years – often in collaboration with other technical and process specialists – for his own company, Love Environment.

Love was a member of the federal Public Education and Outreach (PEO) Issue Table for Climate Change. He was also the director of an award winning national employee training program on climate change.

Love is past Chair of Pollution Probe and Youth Ventures Developments. He is the current Chair of Friends of the Earth Canada and a member of the Toronto Atmospheric Fund Grants Committee.

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