Monte Jones manages the Groundwater Compliance Discipline at Atlantic Coast Consulting, where he has been collaborating on solid waste issues since 2010. Like all of us, Monte had a unique path into the solid waste industry. After growing up in California, he and his family moved to Columbus, Georgia to be closer to his wife’s ailing father. The Columbus Consolidated Government gave him a job as a Landfill Operator, bouncing around on the compactor for 10 hours a day. Despite the glamorous nature of the work, he soon realized that he loved the solid waste industry’s unique challenges and rewards. Through this job at the landfill, Monte was able to grow in his career, attain his Professional Geology license, and receive invaluable professional guidance from industry peers and mentors who quickly became lifelong friends. In fact, Monte credits the friendliness and selflessness of his peers in this industry as the reason that he has enthusiastically served on the Georgia SWANA Board of Directors since 2017.
When not thinking about solid waste, Monte and his wife of 15 years spend their time in Marietta, Georgia, where their lives are consumed with trying to properly raise three kids. Turns out that raising teenagers is much harder than anything the industry can throw at him!