GREGORY A. CONIGLIARO President of Conigliaro Industries, graduated from Tufts University with a Civil Engineering Degree in 1987. He worked as a site surveyor and civil engineer in both the public and private sectors, most notably as a contract environmental engineer at the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection. While there, he read the state’s original Solid Waste Master Plan, which prompted the founding of Conigliaro Industries in 1990.

Since 1990, Conigliaro Industries has grown from 1 to 40 employees. The firm owns and operates a fully permitted 88,000 square foot Material Recovery Facility in Framingham, Massachusetts. Now in its sixteenth year of operation, Conigliaro Industries serves 550 customers, diverting close to 125 tons per day of recyclables from local landfills and incinerators.

Mr. Conigliaro emphasizes a “Total Recycling Concept.” Begun as a paper recycling company, Mr. Conigliaro’s unwillingness to say no over the years to the question “Can It Be Recycled?”, lead to the firm’s current list of 150 acceptable standard and difficult recyclables. As the company’s lead salesperson, Mr. Conigliaro’s customers achieve recycling rates of up to 90% while meeting their environmental goals and saving money.

Beyond recycling, Mr. Conigliaro has pioneered many Product Stewardship initiatives for manufacturers across the country. He oversees the company’s efforts in this area, developing and implementing product design criteria, product take-back, mail-back, disassembly, destruction, and recycling programs.

Conigliaro Industries recently developed “Boston’s Best Patch” and “Plas-Crete Wall Blocks.” Both of these products are made from recycled mixed plastics and were developed in-house by Conigliaro Industries’ team of engineers. These “vertical integration” projects are part of Mr. Conigliaro’s goal to eventually make a product out of every recyclable material handled by his firm.

He believes strongly in cooperative assistance and spends much of his time seeking and coordinating help from many other recycling stakeholders, including The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, WasteCap of Massachusetts and the American Plastics Council among others.

Paramount to all his efforts, is Mr. Conigliaro’s ongoing mission to create truly world-class web based technologies to model, automate and simplify one of the country’s oldest industries. This is a work in progress and the impetus behind the web site you now visit.

Mr. Conigliaro is a Lieutenant Colonel in the Massachusetts Air National Guard. He is assigned to Joint Force Headquarters, Milford, MA as the Massachusetts Air National Guard Homeland Security and Planning Officer. In this capacity, he is involved in preparing the MA ANG to respond to all types of natural and manmade disasters.

Mr. Conigliaro is a member of the Young Entrepreneurs Organization, Boston Chapter. He is also a member of the board of WasteCap of Massachusetts and a member of MassRecycle.

Mr. Conigliaro can be reached by email at greg@conigliaro.com or by phone at (508) 872-9668.

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