Angus has more than 25 years’ experience working in the waste management and resource recovery field for government and the private sector. Angus is a Principal Consultant and leads planning and development applications and regulatory approvals for various industrial infrastructure.

Previously, he was the Principal Consultant Waste & Resource Recovery at KMH-Pitt&Sherry where designed and directed over $1 million of consulting projects each year. He also spent over two years working at the NSW EPA designing resource recovery infrastructure grant programs and evaluating infrastructure proposals.

Angus’s experience includes providing advisory and information management services to government and industry, forming and operating industry and professional associations, running a small business, and working with (and within) local government. Throughout his career Angus has facilitated and informed environmental decision-making processes by applying his ability to write for target audiences and to analyse and translate large amounts of data into clear and concise information for lay as well as expert audiences.

Angus is passionate about the recovery of organic wastes and its transformation into soil, food and energy as a key step towards creating a circular economy. This passion has its roots in his upbringing on a family farm but was further developed early in his career when establishing kerbside organics collection and processing systems in south west Sydney and the Southern Highlands. Angus later spent 6 years as the National Projects Manager for the Recycled Organics Industry, which included representing the industry on the Australian Standards Committee AS4454 for the 2012 update of the standard and promoting the industry and its capability at conferences in Australia and overseas.

Angus has a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons.) and a Masters of Environmental Management (University of NSW).