Stephen Goff is the owner of SpG Consulting, which provides technical consulting services to the waste-to-energy and waste management industries. Mr. Goff established his consulting business after a 35-year career in the waste-to-energy industry. Throughout his career he was an industry leader in new technology development, strategic technical planning, technology risk assessment and process optimization, having led these functions at Covanta (now Reworld), the world’s largest owner/operator of waste-to-energy facilities. Mr. Goff specializes in the evaluation and development of new technologies for the recovery of value from municipal solid waste and components of the waste stream, such as plastics and organics. His expertise covers a wide range of technologies including combustion, gasification, pyrolysis, autoclaving, anaerobic digestion, emissions control and beneficial reuse of process residues. He also has extensive experience in the process analysis and optimization of chemical processes and energy systems.