Our Mission

To be the leading provider of safe, economical and environmentally sustainable residual management services for the benefit of our customers, our employees, our investors, and the communities in which we serve.

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Our History

New England Organics was founded in 1983 as Resource Conservation Services, Inc.  Our company began its work by pioneering the use of wood ash as an agricultural product. As our programs evolved, we worked with other papermill residuals, and soon with waste water treatment residuals.  In 1990, we opened our Hawk Ridge Compost facility, the largest commercial biosolids compost facility in New England.  In 1991 the company was sold to Browning Ferris Industries (BFI) and became BFI Organics.  In 1998 Allied Waste purchased all of BFI, including BFI Organics.  In the year 2000, Casella Waste Systems, Inc. purchased BFI Organics and we renamed the company New England Organics. Since that time, Casella has integrated New England Organics approach to organics recycling and disposal into every region of the company.  New England Organics specializes in the recycling of organic residuals including sludge, paper mill sludge, ash and food waste.

Our parent company, Casella Waste Systems, Inc. was founded as Casella Waste Systems of VT in 1975 as a single truck operation in Rutland, Vermont.  Subsequently it expanded to include operations in New Hampshire, Maine, upstate New York, northern Pennsylvania and eastern Massachusetts.  In 1993 Casella initiated an acquisition strategy to relieve anticipated reductions in available landfill capacity in Vermont and surrounding states due to increasing environmental regulation and other market forces that were driving consolidation in the solid waste services industry.  In 1995 Casella expanded its operations from Vermont and New Hampshire to Maine with the acquisition of the companies now comprising New England Waste Services of ME, Inc. and in January of 1997 Casella established a market presence in upstate New York and northern Pennsylvania through acquisition of Superior Disposal Services’ business.  In 1997 Casella issued an IPO as Casella Waste Systems, Inc. with an initial public offering of shares of our Class A common stock.