Rebecca CaldwellCaldwell Environmental Solutions
Principal
Becky Caldwell is a nationally recognized expert in the field of solid waste resource management and solutions. She is the President of Caldwell Environmental Solutions, a solid waste management consulting company, in Middle Tennessee.
Ms. Caldwell served as the Regional Solid Waste Planning Manager at the Greater Nashville Regional Council (GNRC) where she was responsible for finding and facilitating resources for managing solid waste-related challenges across a diverse 13-county region that included high density urban, suburban, and rural constituents, and working towards an integrated management plan to protect the region’s air, land, and water resources. Specific projects in this role included the 2019 Middle Tennessee Solid Waste Master Plan, and the 2020 Regional Needs Assessment.
Her experience across more than two decades includes 18 years with the City of Franklin, Tennessee, including 10 as Director of Sanitation and Environmental Services, where she was responsible for a multi-million-dollar annual budget, planning, operations, and safety for four residential collection divisions, commercial collections, special events, transfer station operation, and disposal planning.
She graduated from Eastern Kentucky University, with a Bachelor of Business Administration, and earned her Master of Business Administration in 2005, from the University of Phoenix.
Ms. Caldwell is certified through SWANA in Managing Integrated Solid Waste Management Systems, Managing MSW Collection Systems, Managing Recycling Systems, Transfer Station Management, and Household Hazardous Waste & CESQG Collection Operations.
Joe WilliamsCommon Sense Consulting
Principal
Joe Williams enters a fourth decade of solid waste management energized by his newest challenge as founder of Common Sense Consulting of Franklin, LLC in Franklin, TN. Experienced in both the private and public side of MSW, Mr. Williams spent nearly ten years with the former Browning-Ferris Industries (BFI) before taking the reins as Solid Waste Director for the City of Franklin, TN in 1998. His responsibilities have included hiring, training, safety and compliance, operations, financing and administrative requirements for all sections of solid waste management, including residential, commercial, medical, and special wastes.
Morgan ThomasMunicipal Equipment
Sales Representative
Morgan Thomas was the Solid Waste Director for Marshall County in his hometown of Lewisburg, TN for 18 years. A SWANA-certified faculty member, he is certified to teach Managing Recycling Systems, Transfer Station Management and Managing Integrated Solid Waste Management Systems courses. Mr. Thomas currently works for Municipal Equipment, a dealer for New Way garbage trucks, Wastequip compactors and containers, Marathon compactors balers and sort systems, Galbreath roll-off hoists, Otto carts, Century sweepers, and Baker Waste containers. He graduated from Middle Tennessee State University. Mr. Thomas and his wife, Julie, have one son.