Founder and President
Charles Moreau, B.Sc.
Waste management expert. A pioneer in Canada in the recycling and recovery of industrial, biomedical, and food organic waste. Charles founded Synergaïa to offer independent analysis to agricultural and municipal project proponents. He notably led a regional recovery project of 200,000 tonnes per year, valued at approximately $500 million, now on hold.
Expertise
- Waste management: municipal, industrial, commercial, institutional, food, hazardous waste, agricultural and municipal organic waste (brown bin), biomedical waste, expired controlled drugs.
- Recycling, reuse, and recovery of municipal, industrial, and commercial waste since 1992.
- Promotion of different types of thermal treatment.
Background
- Securities broker in Quebec before dedicating himself to waste management.
- Pioneer in implementing the 3Rs in the pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and food sectors in Canada.
- First company in Canada to obtain, for its own business, a reverse distribution licence from Health Canada for the destruction of controlled drugs.
- First company in Quebec to set up a collection system for diabetic syringes and expired pharmaceutical products.
2004 world study tour
- International study of waste-to-energy recovery and anaerobic digestion technologies. Visits to France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the United States, and Canada.
- Discovery of high-temperature gasification and anaerobic digestion processes for agricultural organic waste.
