Tom Moore owner of Tom Moore Consulting specializing in small waste and recycle facilities and policy development. Tom was the Commission Manager for the Westlock Regional Waste Management Commission in Westlock Alberta with over 20 years of experience in Policy and Bylaw Development, and H&S program development and 15 years in waste management.
With a supportive board and his innovation Tom was able to create a plastics processing facility at the Westlock Regional Waste Facility, taking in all plastics 1-7s from 4 other municipalities and grinding the materials and then shipping to two separate processors in Alberta with a focus on those plastics no other facility wants to handle.
Tom was the landfill manager during the 2011 wildfire that burned over one third of the residences in the Town of Slave Lake and parts of the Municipal District of Lesser Slave River. During the cleanup Tom’s initiative was to recycle as much material as possible as well as be as environmentally responsible as possible, an estimated 80+% was recycled. Tom received the Alberta Emerald Award for his efforts in this challenge.
Tom, is a member of the SWANA NLC Crisis committee and has helped in a few of disasters since 2011, mostly in the advisory level, including High River floods and Fort McMurray fire. Tom has given presentations on the Slave Lake Wildfire all over Canada as well as worked with Jim Lapp and other members of SWANA NLC on a webinar and course development on pre-disaster planning.
Tom is active in Alberta Coordinated Action for Recycling Enterprises (CARE) as past chairman and a past board member with the Northern Lights Chapter of Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) and past board member of APRA (Alberta Plastics Recycle Association). Tom has been a SWANA Landfill Operator and Transfer Station instructor since 2013 and one of the primary instructors for the Disaster Debris Management course.