Integrated
Waste Management
Director: Prof. Nickolas Themelis
Contaminant Sources and Fate in the NY-NJ Harbor
Watershed 
New!
by Marta A. Panero at Earth
Institute Industrial Ecology Seminar
Contribution of EEC to NYC Ongoing Debate on Waste
Management
by
Benjamin Miller, EEC Research Associate
A Joint Study
with the Earth Engineering Center (BioCycle, Jan 2004)
Click
HERE if you missed the A&E one-hour special
(October
11, 2003)
New York City's
Dirty Secret: The Trash Crisis
Featuring
Benjamin
Miller author
of "Fat of the Land" and
Research Associate of the Earth Engineering Center
No American city has more garbage than New York City,
or more trouble getting rid of it. Ever since 2001,
when New York City closed its only landfill--Fresh
Kills--the city has been grappling with a growing
garbage crisis. We spend a day in the life of two
sanitation workers, then follow the garbage on its
odyssey through indoor dumps all around New York City,
down the highways and byways of the eastern seaboard,
and to its final destination--most often--landfills
in Pennsylvania
Technology-Policy Study on NYC Waste
Management System
This was a joint project between the Earth Engineering
Center and the Earth Policy Center of the School
of International and Public Affairs. The objective
was to identify alternatives for increasing material
and energy recovery from MSW. The project was funded
by the Strategic Initiatives Program of Columbia
University and the final report was submitted to the
New York City Administration in December 2001.
EEC-SIPA Report: Life After Fresh Kills
Recent
Papers
on Integrated Waste Management:
-
It's Your Garbage.
Pay for It., New York Times
Editorials/Op-Ed, Stephen Hammer and Benjamin Miller
New!
-
The City of Guelph Wet-Dry Recycling Center,
Alexander N. Themelis
(In
PDF)
- An
Overview of the Global Waste-To-Energy Industry,
Nickolas J. Themelis (in Waste Management
World, International Solid Wastes Association, July-August
2003)
- The Impact of Municipal Solid
Waste Management on Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the
United States, Susan A. Thorneloe, Keith A.
Weitz, Subba R. Nishtala, Sherry Yarkosky and Maria
Zannes, Journal of Air & Waste Management Association (in
PDF)
-
Assessing GHG Emissions from WTE
and Landfill Disposal D. Batchelor, D. Eeraerts,
P. Smits; Waste Management World 2002 (in
PDF)
- Status of
WTE in Europe H.
Rylander and J. Haukohl; Waste Management
World (in
PDF)
- U.S. Environmental
Impacts: Assessing Waste-To-Energy and landfilling; N.J.
Themelis ,
July-August 2002) (in
PDF)
-
Energy Recovery from
New York City Municipal Solid Wastes: N. J. Themelis, Y.H.
Kim and M. H. Brady (Waste M'g't and Research, 2002);
(in
PDF)
- Effects of affluence and population density on waste
generation and disposal of municipal solid wastes;
by Ko Matsunaga and Nickolas J. Themelis (in review
for publication) (in
PDF)
- Integrated
Management of Solid Wastes for New York City; N. J. Themelis (in WPD-ASME
Proceedings of NAWTEC 10, 2002) (in
PDF)
- Material
and Energy Balances in a Large-scale Aerobic Cell;
NJ Themelis and Y.H. Kim (Waste M'g't and Research
J., Aug. 2002) (in
PDF)
- Resource
Recovery From Used Rubber Tires: by T.A. Amari,
NJ Themelis and I.K. Wernick (in PDF format).
- Recycling
Metals for the Environment, I. Wernick and NJ
Themelis, Annual Reviews of Energy and Environment.
- Columbia
Civil Engineering Department: Studying the possible
reuse of waste glass as aggregate in concrete.
Recent
Columbia Engineering M.S. Theses
on Integrated
Waste Management:
-
Monica M. DeAngelo: Siting of Waste-To-Energy
Facilities in New York City Using GIS Technology.
(in
PDF)
-
Panagiotis G. Deriziotis: Substance
and Perceptions of Environmental Impacts of Dioxin
Emissions (in
PDF)
-
Scott M. Kaufman: Analysis of Technology
and Infrastructure of the Paper Recycling Industry
in New York City (in
PDF)
-
Karena Ostrem: Greening Waste: Anaerobic
Digestion for Treating the Organic Fraction of Municipal
Solid Wastes (in
PDF)
-
Paula Estevez: Industrial Ecology
Study, Potential for a WTE facility for Santiago
Chile (in
PDF)
(See
also Cash Flow of a WTE Plant in Santiago, Chile)
-
M.H. Brady: Materials & Energy Recovery
from the Dry Stream of NYC's MSW
-
A.J. Dubanowitz: Design of Automated
Materials Recovery Facility for Processing the NYC
Recyclables (in
PDF)
-
Alexander Klein: Gasification: An
Alternative Disposal and Energy Recovery Process
for MSW (in
PDF)
-
Shefali Verma: Anaerobic Digestion
of Biodegradable Organics in Municipal Solid Wastes
(in
PDF)
-
Claire Todd: Technical and Economical
Analysis of the NYC Recycling System (in
PDF)
What
is Waste-to-Energy?
Due to poor incineration technology/practice
used in New York City during most of the 20th century,
this important tool of waste management is often overlooked
as an environmentally viable option for waste management.
However, today's waste-to-energy plants divert large
quantities of waste from landfills and generate a
lot of electricity while maintaining emission levels
well below EPA standards.
Links
to prominent WTE companies
Covanta
Energy
American Ref-Fuel
Energy Answers
Corporation
Martin GMBh
Von
Roll, Switzerland
Links
to some of the U. S. communities using WTE
Palm Beach County, Florida
(SWA)
Onandaga
County, New York (OCRRA)
Organic Separation
of Municipal Solid Waste:
The City of Guelph:
Collection and recycling of two streams of municipal
solid waste has led this Canadian municipality to
a 56% diversion rate. View a report of the Guelph's Wet/Dry Recycling Center based
on a tour taken by Earth Engineering Center associates
in 2000.
EPA
Composting Site:
Includes a list of minucipal
composting sites in the United States.
Biocycle
Magazine:
"Published since 1960, BioCycle
is America's foremost magazine on recycling residuals
into value - added products - from compost that suppresses
crop disease to high-quality household goods."
MSW Management
Programs across the U.S.:
Chicago,
Illinois
San Francisco,
California
San Jose, California
Portland,
Oregon
New
York City
NYC and NYS Environmental agencies:
New York City Department of
Sanitation
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
New
York City Department of Environmental Protection
Additional Integrated Waste
Management
and Municipal Solid Waste Resources:
Air and Waste Management
Association
California Integrated Waste Management Board
Cornell
Waste Management Institute
CUTEC (Clausthaler
Umwelttechnik-Institut GmbH, Germany)
EPA Office of Solid Waste
Integrated Waste Services
Association
Sheffield
University Waste Incineration Center (SUWIC)
Solid Waste Association
of North America
Waste Management
at Columbia
In 1999, the University launched the Columbia Conserves
program with the implementation of a campus-wide recycling
program.
Waste
Reduction and Management Institute, Stony Brook
University, NY
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