Wendy Rudder is an environmental scientist in AECOM ’s Vancouver office, and leads the Solid Waste group. She is experienced in planning and implementation of solid waste management services at the local government level, and has been involved in municipal utilities and environmental management systems development.  Wendy joined the National Water and Wastewater Benchmarking Initiative team in 2006, and has been involved in on-site data collection for selected municipalities, and assists with work group facilitation, and the facilitation of sessions at the annual Workshop.  Wendy is actively engaged in increasing focus on sustainability aspects of the Benchmarking initiative, and expanding the benchmarking principles and approach to solid waste management services.  Wendy will lead the pilot testing of solid waste benchmarking for the 2008-2009 iteration of the project.