Environmental Business Services is a consulting, management and administrative company providing a full array of solid waste related services to cities, counties, privately owned companies, investment banking firms and investor groups.
Anchored in the Southeast region, EBS was founded in 1995 as a limited liability company. Bringing a business perspective to its clients for the management of solid waste and other environmental issues EBS has offered and delivered services to clients throughout the U.S.
Jim McNaughton
After a 20-year career in corporate solid waste management that culminated in the operation of a $140 million, 16-site collection, transfer station and landfill operation with more than 200 routes employing 600-plus employees, Jim McNaughton co-founded Environmental Business Services in 1999.
Now with over 35 years in the industry, Jim’s experiences range throughout a 10-state region. He and his associates provide solid waste consulting services to cities, counties, small independent companies and large Fortune 500 firms and have completed in excess of 100 environmental and solid waste consulting projects specializing in all aspects of solid waste management, infrastructure and development while specializing in acquisitions, divestitures, landfill gas extraction systems and material recovery facilities.
Other unique consulting projects have ranged from frac sand mining, natural gas storage field approvals, and expert witness and litigation services.
Jim served on the Mississippi Environmental Protection Council Advisory Committee as chairman of the subcommittee on Solid Waste Planning. Recommendations made during his tenure influenced the state’s Nonhazardous Solid Waste Planning Act of 1991. He earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Environmental Health from the University of Georgia in 1980.
Butch Lambert
A. C. “Butch” Lambert Jr. has more than 40 years of experience in the solid waste management industry.
For 15 years, he served corporate solid waste collections and disposal companies by specializing in acquisitions, market development and project development. He spent the first 8 years with a national waste company over a six state region adding $200 million in revenue in the Southeast. He spent the final 7 years in the senior management team of a regional waste company growing revenue from $139 million to over $400 million over seven states in the Southeast.
For more than 25 years, Butch has owned and operated solid waste consulting firms in Florida and Mississippi, where he entered the industry with an equipment sales operation.
Throughout the Southeast many may recognize Butch Lambert because of his amateur athletic career. He is a 28-year veteran football official of the Southeastern Conference, officiating 38 bowl games and one national championship. He and his father, Butch Lambert Sr., were honored for their long and successful careers as football officials in 2006 as recipients of the Outstanding Football Official Award and induction into the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame.
Butch earned a Bachelors Degree of Business Administration from the University of Mississippi.
Shelby Lowe
Shelby Lowe has been involved and is well-versed in many facets of the environmental arena since 1976.
He previously owned a solid waste residential and commercial collection company which was purchased by Browning Ferris Industries, a Fortune 500 company, in the early 1980’s. Shelby rose through the ranks of a Fortune 500 Waste Company and became a Regional Vice President over 5 states with annual revenues of $950 million dollars. His responsibilities as a Regional Vice President were transportation, collection, and processing of solid waste, recyclables, medical waste, and managing several transfer stations and landfills.
From his solid waste background, Shelby became a Regional Vice President for a nationally known bio-solids company where he managed several collection companies across the South and West coast including over-seeing land-farming, and processing facilities that processed bio-solids into Class A material for fertilizer. Shelby assisted in building the company revenues to over $350 million and aided in selling the company to an investment group in Washington DC.
His last endeavor before becoming a consultant for EBS was managing several transportation companies and processing facilities to recycle fatty oils and industrial waste water for a fast-growing liquids company. During his tenure as a Regional Vice President with the liquids group, he developed an organics program for one of the largest retail store chains in the United States to transport organics to compost sites and/or for animal feed. It was a tremendous success and the nationally known retailer has expanded the organics program to several other states.
Shelby earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Finance from Louisiana State University.
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