Recycling Expert Witnesses

What is a recycling expert witness?

Recycling expert witness candidates typically have industry experience in environmental engineering and/or environmental law. Scrap recycling expert witnesses can provide experience and expertise in solid waste management, sustainability, and collection practices of recovered metals with monetary value. Recycling experts typically have particular areas of focus, such as environmental services, renewable energy, and/or municipal planning. In a high-profile case, or litigation involving a significant financial stake, a law firm may request a qualified expert with prior expert witness experience. 

What types of cases require a recycling expert witness?

A subject matter expert in recycling programs might be called upon to provide expert testimony in a class action toxic tort litigation case, air quality impact disputes, or public health investigations. In addition, a law firm may request a recycling specialist for pre-litigation consulting services.

Recycling expert witness case examples

Representative matters have encompassed:

• solid waste management consulting,
• New Jersey recycling program management,
• hazardous waste,
• environmental impact studies,
• groundwater contamination,
• recycling services initiatives,
• personal injury,
• landfill arbitration in New York, and
• waste disposal regulatory compliance.

What litigation support work might a recycling expert witness be expected to perform?

Litigation support services by a recycling expert witness could include forensic analyses of a contaminated property, providing expert opinions, research and authoring expert reports, depositions, and trial testimony.

Cahn Litigation Services has the experience required to turn a search for a recycling expert witness around quickly, providing the right balance of expertise and testimony experience.

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Recycling Expert Witness - Representative Bios

Please Note: All Cahn Litigation expert witness searches are customized to attorneys' precise specifications and preferences. Attorneys are encouraged to discuss search parameters with a Cahn search specialist.

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The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Recycling experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Recycling landscape.

• Expert Witness #256846

  This expert earned a PhD in Environmental Engineering, and has been an adjunct and visiting professor and a guest lecturer. This expert heads a firm engaged in sustainability, environmental, remediation and health & safety services. This expert has a wealth of experience as an expert witness, including support provided in 5 environmental class actions. This expert has deposition and testimony experience. This expert has been a keynote speaker at conferences, has written a chapter, and has two patents.

  
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• Expert Witness #250995

  This expert specializes in the development of films for a variety of applications which require an understanding of film processes, property testing and film specifications as they relate to end use, and film formulations. This includes a firm understanding of polymer structure property relationships. This expert has developed film formulations and structures for several applications which require stability during processing, storage and in outdoor applications. During this expert's years in polymer science this expert has set up labs to characterize films, films surfaces, additive packages, and defect analyses. This expert has gained an understanding of degradable mechanisms including photo and biodegradable. This expert was a member of the Degradable Polymer Council as well as member of the technical committee for the Council of Solid Waste Solutions, now the American Chemistry Council (ACC). This expert has developed biodegradable and photodegradable polymers, researched composting films and recycling of plastics, and gave numerous presentations on the topics to customers and suppliers. This expert has served as an expert witness and was deposed in a major law suite dealing with films and their properties by two major film and resin manufacturers. In another case, a film was degrading in its end use and it turned out not to be the formulation but plant storage.

  
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• Expert Witness #256961

  This trailer expert holds BS and MS degrees in mechanical engineering, is a licensed Professional Engineer and Certified Safety Professional, and has worked on and evaluated the design of numerous trailers, including dump trailers, air compressor trailers, custom recycling trailers, utility trailers, flatbed trailers, enclosed trailers, and similar equipment.

  This expert has been a member of national trailer manufacturing and trailer dealer associations and has testified on many occasions.

  
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• Expert Witness #267728

  This can manufacturing expert has worked on multiple projects and cases involving can defects and their causes. Consulting work has included identifying can defects in filling lines and supplier can manufacturing lines, as well as creating a can defect catalog.

  This expert has set up double seams and understands the defects associated with double seaming. This expert is also very familiar with can manufacturing defects and coating defects that create problems later, and understands the can decoration process.

  Earlier career experience at a major aluminum company included learning beverage can and end manufacturing, developing new cans and ends that were patented and commercialized, working closely with can manufacturers on introducing new products and problem solving, and developing can-related performance tests.

  Later work at a major beverage company involved metal packaging from a brand owner's perspective, including new industry coating implementations, new performance metrics, and close work with can suppliers on numerous projects.

  This expert is familiar with the entire beverage can supply chain, including metals such as aluminum and steel, coatings, manufacturing and manufacturing equipment, testing equipment, specifications, filling, double seaming, and recycling.

  
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• Expert Witness #276745

  This plastic parts and products design and manufacturing expert holds a PhD and is an emeritus professor and former department chair in plastics engineering at a well-regarded public university. This expert is an active researcher and consultant in plastics processing and design and has authored many publications and patents, including a textbook on plastic part design.

  This expert is a member of several engineering societies, including a prominent plastics engineering society, where this expert has served in regional and divisional leadership roles. This expert has received major education and lifetime achievement awards from professional and academic institutions and has been recognized by a plastics industry hall of fame.

  This expert has over 40 years of experience as a plastics engineering educator and researcher. This expert has taught over 100 undergraduate, graduate, and corporate education courses and has served as thesis advisor for over 90 graduate students.

  This expert consults in product design, injection molding, polymer processing, and recycling of thermoplastics for companies and organizations across consumer products, technology, automotive, and medical device industries.

  This expert holds over 20 U.S. and European patents, has been a principal or co-principal investigator for over 70 funded research projects or grants, and has authored or co-authored over 70 technical papers. This expert has also served as founding editor of a professional journal on injection molding technology and has authored books on plastic part design for injection molding and thermoplastic injection molding.

  
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• Expert Witness #285091

  This environmental engineer/battery disposal expert is a licensed professional Environmental Engineer (P.E.) and university professor in Civil and Environmental Engineering at a public university. This expert's familiarity with lithium-ion battery grinding stems from comprehensive graduate courses taught in pollution prevention, source reduction, reuse, recycling, treatment, disposal, and hazardous waste management.

  This expert's background as a professional environmental engineer, consultant, expert witness, researcher, and professor provides a strong understanding of fundamental processes in environmental engineering. This expert has addressed diverse environmental challenges involving grinding processes, material separation techniques, emissions modeling, exposure mitigation strategies, and material recovery methods. This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.

  
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• Expert Witness #285129

  This hazardous material recycling expert provides expert witness testimony in cases involving hazardous materials, hazardous waste, and chemical risk assessment, and has worked as a chemist, biologist, bacteriologist, and wastewater engineer.

  This expert has experience in sewage treatment processes where microorganisms break down complex organic matter in the absence of oxygen, as well as waste minimization and management in compliance with local, state, and federal law.

  
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• Expert Witness #288239

  This battery recycling expert is a founder of a battery technology company that pioneered methods to improve safety and efficiency in recycling lithium-ion batteries and related materials.

  The work includes methods for deactivating or de-powering batteries to reduce hazards in transportation and storage, extracting electrolytes, harvesting and separating electrodes, and directly restoring lithium, structure, and performance to scrap cathode electrodes.

  This expert is recognized as a leading patent author in lithium-ion battery recycling.

  
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• Expert Witness #292282

  This paper recycling expert is considered a leading global authority in many different types of paper packaging recycling and is president of an international consulting firm providing strategic services and research to the paper recycling industry.

  This expert previously held a series of roles in the solid waste, paper, and recycling industries, including a founding executive role at a paper recycling organization and a senior recycling role at a major waste management company. This expert has expertise and experience with recycling poly-coated fiber packaging, including cups, milk cartons, rigid paper containers, and other materials. The work includes all aspects of the recycling process, from collection to MRF processing and consumption at a mill or other end use.

  This expert has testified on several occasions.

  
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• Expert Witness #292327

  This paper recycling expert holds a PhD and is an academic professor specializing in pulp and paper science and technology. This expert's research has included studying the principles behind paper recycling-related processes such as agglomeration deinking, paper recycling with supercritical carbon dioxide, removal of pressure-sensitive adhesive materials with screens, fiber fractionation, detection of depositable contaminants, and reduction of paper strength due to recycling.

  One significant achievement includes the development of sensors for automated paper sorting that are used in industrial practice today. In recognition of this expert's expertise in paper recycling, this expert was invited to speak at a prestigious national scientific, engineering, and medical institution on the chemistry of paper recycling.

  This expert teaches paper recycling in a hands-on pulp and paper basics workshop multiple times a year and has done so for over 20 years. This expert has also been invited to teach at several industrial locations in the United States and internationally.

  This expert is a Fellow of a technical association for the pulp and paper industry and has published over 30 peer-reviewed journal articles in the area of paper recycling.

  
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• Expert Witness #292361

  This recycling expert is a PE and practicing mechanical and environmental engineer, with over 40 years of experience designing, testing, and evaluating systems and facilities that recover recyclable materials, energy, or both. This expert is a member of several technical committees within a prominent international standards organization that write and promulgate procedures for characterizing recyclable and waste materials and processing systems.

  This expert has prepared facility operational plans and product marketing plans for recyclable materials, including various paper grades.

  This expert has operated waste and recyclable materials processing equipment, including equipment targeting paper and fiber recovery.

  This expert has designed, operated, tested, and evaluated wastepaper pulping and contaminant removal equipment and systems.

  This expert has prepared acceptance test plans and performance criteria for processing facilities and operations and for their recovered recyclable grades of materials.

  This expert has created and negotiated recovered materials specifications with commodity buyers, including paper mills and brokers.

  This expert has evaluated the quality of recovered paper grades against buyer requirements.

  This expert has prepared technical contract clauses related to recyclables processing facilities, operations, and recovered recyclable grades of materials, including paper grades.

  This expert has testified in court and arbitration and has provided depositions.

  
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• Expert Witness #305639

  This waste industry expert is a highly experienced waste industry executive with a diverse skill set encompassing management, logistics, operations, sales, finance, project management, and business development. This expert possesses over 35 years of in-depth knowledge and valuable private-sector experience in establishing and operating integrated solid waste systems comprising collection, transfer, recycling, landfill, and waste-to-energy components.

  This waste industry expert holds a P.E. credential and has performed environmental, civil, and mechanical engineering projects for public and private-sector clients across over 20 U.S. states and multiple Canadian provinces. A seasoned industry veteran, this expert has served in supervising engineer, project manager, and operations manager roles, with over 40 years of experience leading technical teams in planning, site evaluation, environmental permitting and compliance, engineering, procurement and contract negotiation, construction support, operational management, safety assessment, and expert witness services. This expert's solid waste management project experience, both as a consulting engineer and in the public sector, includes integrated and zero-waste planning; materials characterization; materials recycling and recovery; composting and organics processing; transfer; resource recovery and conversion technology; disaster debris recovery; and active and closed landfills.

  Both experts are experienced expert witnesses and litigation consultants.

  
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