Email Craig Coker 
Mr. Coker has over 28 years experience in the planning, permitting, design, construction and operation of organics recycling facilities processing animal manures, animal mortalities, food wastes, biosolids, yard trimmings and source-separated organic solid wastes, as well as in the marketing and sales of compost and compost-amended horticultural products. He has training as both an engineer and a scientist and has experience with windrow composting (both turned and passive), aerated static pile composting (both negative and positive aeration, and both enclosed and open-air), aerated composting bins (fixed and portable), and invessel systems (batch and continuous, rotary tub/drum and bridge-tunnel). He is both a licensed Virginia Waste Management Operator and a USCC/SWANA Certified Compost Systems Manager. In addition to running Coker Composting & Consulting, Mr. Coker is also a Contributing Editor to Biocycle magazine.
Feasibility Studies, Business & Facility Planning, & Permitting
- Private Company, Greenwich, CT - feasibility study on national CAFO animal manures composting business (2008 - present)
- Blue Hen Organics, LLC (Millsboro, DE) - permitting support for an open-air turned windrow yard waste composting facility (2008- present)
- Private company, Virginia - site investigations and permitting support for a biosolids silviculture land application project (2008 - present)
- Institute for Local Self-Reliance, Washington, D.C. - preparation of planning-level cost estimate for construction and operation of 12,500 ton/year open-air turned windrow leaf composting facility (2007)
- Private company, Minnesota – a technology evaluation of twelve composting (windrow, ASP, enclosed ASP, agitated bay, and rotary drum) and four digestion (aerobic and anaerobic) alternatives for 1,200 – 10,000 ton/year of source-separated organic solid waste (2007)
- Charlotte/Mecklenburg County, NC - development of master plan for relocation, expansion and upgrade of 80,000 tons/year open air turned windrow yard trimmings composting facility (2007-2008)
- Innovative Recycling Services, Inc. (Hickory, NC) - technical support for wood waste treatment and processing facility permit application (2007)
- Kingsmill Farm II (Durham, NC) - preparation of Solid Waste Composting Permit Application for dairy manure composting (2007)
- City of Durham, NC - Technical support in repermitting effort for 13,000 ton/year municipal yard waste composting facility (2006)
- Royal Oak Farm, LLC (Lynchburg, VA) – successful permitting of the first multi-feedstock Solid Waste Composting Facility in Virginia with capacity of 148,000 tons/year of industrial & commercial residuals; storm water permitting and preparation of Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan (2006)
- McGill-Leprechaun (Waverly, VA) – successful permitting of a 130,000 tons/year biosolids composting facility; completion & acceptance of Potential-to-Emit for Air Quality Permitting (2006)
- McGill-Leprechaun (Fountain, NC) – facility planning of a proposed biosolids & solid waste composting facility (2004)
- Crowell Dairy Farms, Inc. (Asheville, NC) – successful permitting of a farm-based solid waste composting facility
- UNC – Greensboro (NC) – facility planning for a university food scraps and sawdust composting facility using enclosed turned windrows (2007, in conjunction with NC A&T University) and using aerated rotary drum technology (2005)
Facility Design, Construction & Operations
- Blue Hen Organics, LLC (Millsboro, DE) - site layout, design and operations plan for open-air turned windrow yard waste composting facility (2008 - present)
- Poplar Manor Enterprises, LLC (Riner, VA) - technical support in permitting, facility design and operations for a 16,800 ton/year farm-scale manure and food waste composting facility (2007 - present)
- Soundside Recycling (Jarvisburg, NC) - design of a 2,000 ton demonstration project for composting engineered wood products with fresh compost and liquid nitrogen fertilizer (2007)
- Bay Organics, LLC (Hurlock, MD) - preparation of an operations plan for an agricultural and seafood residuals open-air turned windrow composting facility (2007)
- Kingsmill Farm II (Durham, NC) - preliminary design of enclosed aerated static pile system for dairy manure and ground land clearing debris (2007)
- Royal Oak Farm, LLC (Lynchburg, VA) – technical support in securing tipping fee material contracts and in redesign of web site; design and construction management of upgrade of existing open-air turned windrow agricultural composting operation to commercial/industrial composting facility; including pad hardening and runoff pond lining (2006-present)
- McGill-Leprechaun (Waverly, VA) – design of new enclosed extended aerated static pile composting facility to process 130,000 tons/year; including process design, biofilter for odor control, computerized process monitoring (2006)
- Private company (Gaffney, SC) – operational support to paunch manure – vegetative waste open-air turned windrow composting facility (2006-2007)
- Mountain Organic Materials, LLC (Asheville, NC) – design, construction and operation of an 8,000 ton/year dairy manure, poultry litter and sawdust aerated bin composting operation at a 650-head dairy farm, Asheville, NC (2001-2003)
- WNC Pallet & Forest Products, Inc. (Asheville, NC) - Operations management of wood waste recycling center, Asheville, NC (2001 – 2003)
- Development and management of food waste recycling program, 1999 Special Olympics, Raleigh, NC
Compost Marketing & Sales
- Blue Hen Organics, LLC (Millsboro, DE) - preparation of yard waste compost marketing plan (2008)
- Creech Services, Inc. (Lexington, KY) - review of marketing plans for Thoroughbred Landscape Products (2007)
- Mecklenburg County, NC - development of marketing plan for compost and compost-based soil products (2007)
- Royal Oak Farm, LLC (Lynchburg, VA) – development and execution of marketing plan for compost and compost-based soil products (2005 - present)
- Private Company (Gaffney, SC) - development of compost marketing brochures (2006)
- Mountain Organic Materials, LLC (Asheville, NC) – development and implementation of compost marketing and sales program (2001 – 2003)
Training Programs
- Chairman, Professional Credentials Committee, U.S. Composting Council (2007 - 2008)
- Carolinas Composting Council (Pittsboro, NC) – Instructor for Compost Operator Training Course (2006, 2003, 2002). Courses taught: Composting Process I & II, Feedstock Characterization, Composting Systems & Technologies, Process Monitoring & Control, Facility Design & Siting, Odor & Air Emissions Control, Compost Quality, and Compost Use in Landscaping, Erosion Control, Ornamental Horticulture & Environmental Remediation
- U.S. Composting Council (Ronkonkoa, NY) – co-instructor on “Compost Use in Agriculture and Horticulture” (2006, 2007)
- U.S. EPA Region 4 (Atlanta, GA) - developed and taught course on “Composting Facility Operations” for Native American Tribes (2004)
Prior Project Experience:
- Organics Recycling Technical Assistance Coordinator, NC Dept. of Environment and Natural Resources (1998-2001)
- Preparation of business plan for manure-based composting and sales program for Fortune 100 company, Moline, IL (1994-1995)
- Evaluation of industrial sludge composting options for Fortune 100 company, Wilmington, DE (1995)
- Technical consultant to Citizen Advisory Committee on biosolids composting alternatives, New York City (1991-1993)
- Facility planning, permitting and design of biosolids dewatering and pelletizing facility, Elizabeth, NJ (1989-1994)
- Facility planning for biosolids composting facility, Rahway, NJ (1988)
- Planning, permitting, design and construction management of 150,000 tpy biosolids composting facility, Dickerson, MD (1981-1983)
- Solid waste management plan, Baltimore County, MD (1978-1979)
- Solid waste management plan, new Federal Capital City, Nigeria (1979)
- Facility planning and design for biosolids composting facility, Washington DC (1976-1981)
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