Bio

Mr. Cooper performed technology evaluations and evaluated and designed over 100 leachate, industrial, and municipal wastewater treatment plants. He is a subject matter expert at CEC for PFAS treatment, removal and destruction technologies. He is chair of SWANA’s Leachate Management Committee and is the managing editor of the upcoming PFAS reference document, “Issues in Landfill Leachate and the Solid Waste Industry” for SWANA. He is the author of the Water Environments book on PFAS Treatment for the chapter on Landfill Leachate (in review).  He serves on the Water Environment Federation’s Industrial Waste Committee. He received the 2017 Roy F. Weston Award – for contributions in solid waste technology and management, and the 2019 Distinguished Individual Achievement Award from the Solid Waste Association of North America. The US State Department selected Mr. Cooper as a distinguished scholar to represent the United States for consultation programs in solid waste and wastewater issues for the Palestinian West Bank Territories and Morocco. Mr. Cooper is a frequent presenter of wastewater and leachate treatment issues for SWANA, EREF, Environmental Business Council, WEF, and other organizations. He speaks about leachate treatment alternatives, UV interference at POTWs from leachate, ammonia reduction technologies for leachate pretreatment and direct discharge, PFAS conventional and innovative leachate treatment technologies, impacts to leachate from condensate in aggressive gas well withdrawal, impacts to leachate from ash disposal, and unconventional drilling waste disposal in landfills. He has published and presented over 100 times on water and wastewater issues at conferences throughout the world.