Barry Joseph Meehan is an Honorary Associate Professor in the School of Science at RMIT University in Australia. Barry has PhD and Masters degrees in Chemistry from La Trobe University in Australia and an Associate Diploma in Applied Chemistry from RMIT University. Barry worked as an academic at RMIT for over 40 years and has extensive experience in the development of project- based teaching and research activities with industry and government agencies in Australia as well as in Vietnam and China. Barry’s main research activities have focussed on the land application of various organic waste streams generated in urban and regional locations in Australia and has focussed mainly on sustainable land applications of biosolids from wastewater treatment facilities.