Charles

About Charles Duprey

The founder and president of Naturcycle LLC, Charles Duprey is an expert in green roof media design and manufacturing, with over fifteen years of experience developing and supplying some of the largest green roof and engineered soil projects in the Northeast, including the one-acre farm on the Javits Convention Center rooftop, green roofs from the Statue of Liberty Museum to the Boston Medical Center, and more. As a certified educator, he conducts professional development sessions on green infrastructure and sustainability for members of the American Society of Landscape Architects. Charles currently serves as a trustee for the Compost Research & Education Foundation and is the current co-chair of the Seal of Testing Assurance Advisory Committee. He is also the former Vice Chair of the Market Development Committee of the United States Composting Council. He serves on many industry committees and has published several educational articles on a variety of related topics. He has both a B.S. and a B.A. from Syracuse University and resides in Central New York.

How Do We Increase Green Roof Installations in NYC?

Naturcycle works on many green roof projects of various sizes. Cities like Washington DC have used an aggressive tax credit to expand the number and type of green roofs installed. Can New York City do the same by simply expanding its existing programs? A group of New York City lawmakers is urging Mayor Bill [...]

By |2021-03-02T17:42:17+00:00August 20th, 2020|Uncategorized|

Charles Duprey Presents on Compost Testing Challenges

The Mid-Atlantic Biosolids Association hosted its annual summary educational series as an online webinar. Our founder, Charles Duprey, presented and took questions on "Composting Testing Challenges and the Need for Performance Based Design." He spoke at length about the issues with standardizing of compost testing analysis and the understanding of those differences. He also [...]

By |2021-01-06T17:00:38+00:00July 29th, 2020|Uncategorized|

The Right Compost for the Right Job

Naturcycle has built its business on the highest quality compost. We work closely with our network of public and private partners to market and sell their compost. We often support their composting process, improvements to operations, billing and many more aspects of manufacturing in order to produce the best products possible. We also enroll [...]

By |2021-01-06T17:18:53+00:00June 9th, 2020|Uncategorized|

Quality Control & Naturcycle Engineered Soils

Since its founding, Naturcycle has been focused on creating the highest quality engineered soils with a focus on quality control and commitment to producing the best finished products. Part of that effort is the investment of time and resources such as recently testing 11 (eleven) different sand sources in order to meet a particular [...]

By |2021-01-12T17:27:54+00:00March 25th, 2020|Uncategorized|

US Composting Council Annual Conference

The United States Composting Council (USCC) hosts its annual Conference & Trade Show every year. This event has moved around the country, from California to Florida to Texas, and this year to Charleston, South Carolina. Our founder Charles Duprey serves on the Market Development Committee (MDC) of the USCC. This committee is dedicated to [...]

By |2021-01-12T17:40:24+00:00February 6th, 2020|Uncategorized|

Article in Biocycle from our Founder, Charles Duprey

Our founder, Charles Duprey, has been involved in compost and engineered soil sales for over a decade. In that time, he has been serving on the US Composting Council's Market Development Committee. This committee has spearheaded work with the Technical Manual for the Evaluation of Composting and Compost (TMECC), which is the basis for [...]

By |2021-01-12T18:07:56+00:00December 31st, 2019|Uncategorized|

Compost Marketing Services

One of the core competencies of Naturcycle is compost marketing. Many municipal and private compost producers may need extra help with selling finished compost. Some sites are geographically isolated and local markets are limited. Local competition can drive prices down. Past practices such as auctions of finished compost lead to a vicious cycle of [...]

By |2021-03-02T17:47:24+00:00November 22nd, 2019|Uncategorized|

Engineered Soils & the Naturcycle Difference

Naturcycle is currently working through a highly complex engineered soil submittal process for a project in New York City. Naturcycle has extensive experience navigating complex and challenging engineered soil designs. The project pictured has unique component characteristics, along with a rigorous testing plan that took a special understanding of laboratory abilities and more. We [...]

By |2021-01-12T18:06:25+00:00October 30th, 2019|Uncategorized|

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