Waste Management Institute

Educational resources for schools (K-12) and businesses from Cornell Waste Management Institute.

The District Engineer reported on one of the papers presented at the recent Waste Management Institute Conference.

Her father is a professor of economics and the director of the Waste Management Institute at Cornell University in Ithaca.

If you would like to know more about composting, Cornell University's Waste Management Institute maintains an excellent composting website.

Waste Management Institute of New Zealand is a non profit organisation that promotes sustainable waste management practices.

"People are jumping on this bandwagon," said Ellen Harrison, a spokeswoman for the Waste Management Institute at Cornell University.

“There’s a feeling of shame,” said Ms. Harrison, a former director of the Cornell Waste Management Institute in Ithaca.

If anyone is myopic, it is Mr. McMillan and the Waste Management Institute at Stony Brook.

The Cornell Waste Management Institute has compiled more than 250 sludge-exposure complaints in more than 25 communities, ranging from dust inhalation to water runoff contamination.

"It's not looking at health outcomes," said Ellen Harrison, the director of the Cornell Waste Management Institute, who helped write the National Research Council report.

Silver member of the Waste Management Institute of New Zealand (WMINZ)

Based on an article for Waste Awareness, the official journal of The Waste Management Institute of New Zealand June 2002.

Soil chemist Murray McBride, director of the Cornell Waste Management Institute, said he doesn't doubt that sludge can bind lead in soil.

"Degradability could put a silver bullet in the heart of recycling," said Dr. Daryl Ditz, a researcher at the Cornell Waste Management Institute.

"Clearly many municipalities wish the state would take action because they don't want to take heat from their constituents," said Ms. Harrison of Cornell's Waste Management Institute.

"These sludges are the worst media you can imagine because they will generate antibiotic resistant organisms," said Murray McBride, director of the Cornell Waste Management Institute.

"They can live underwater, but when their tunnels fill with water, they tend to leave," said Jean Bonthal, an extension associate and compost specialist with the Cornell Waste Management Institute.

And Mr. Swanson, of the SUNY Waste Management Institute, suggested that individuals would have to be more concerned about the way they handle materials that could end up on the area's beaches.

The company is a member of the International Solid Waste Association (ISWA) and a silver member of the Waste Management Institute of New Zealand (WMINZ).

But Murray McBride, director of the Cornell Waste Management Institute, who was quoted in the original AP story, said he still sees cause for concern in materials that meet Class A and exceptional- quality standards.

On Nov. 16, the Cornell Waste Management Institute and Cooperative Extension of Westchester will hold a Train the Trainer workshop for consumers and environmental groups from the seven-county Hudson Valley region.

The department also demonstrated a reluctance to accept recommendations of the Interstate Sanitation Commission and the Waste Management Institute of the State University at Stony Brook on ways to minimize the impact of ocean disposal.

The Plastics Waste Management Institute (PWMI) of the Association of Plastics Manufacturers in Europe recently set out to discover how much plastic is consumer in Europe and where it ends up.

The 8,100-square-foot building, a boathouse for the university's Marine Sciences Research Center, has 300 tons of blocks made of 67 percent ash and 33 percent sand, said R. Lawrence Swanson, director of the center's Waste Management Institute.

Murray McBride, director of Cornell Waste Management Institute, said its analysis of garden beds in New York City generally has been encouraging, with one pilot study of 44 gardens finding less than 10 percent had high lead levels in the soil.