Founding Sponsors
Waste Management, Inc. is a provider of comprehensive waste and environmental services in North America. Aside from its traditional activities in collecting, transferring and landfilling post-recycling wastes, WMI processes eight million tons of recyclable materials each year. Its network of operations also includes 16 waste-to-energy plants that provide the grid with more than 650 megawatts of electricity, 108 LFG recivery projects, and six independent power plants.
WM Recycle America is a long-term venture established by Waste Management 20 years ago. Since then they have handled over 55 million tons of recyclable commodities. The goal is to improve the sustainability and future growth of recycling programs to ensure that they work for everyone.
Wheelabrator Technologies Inc. is a premier renewable energy generation company producing clean energy from waste fuels. Since it opened the first commercially successful waste-to-energy facility in the U.S. in 1975, Wheelabrator has been leading the charge in clean energy generation.
The Earth Engineering Center was founded in 1995 and was the first engineering unit of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. In 1997, the Center was instrumental in the transformation of Columbia's famous School of Mines, the first of its kind in the U.S., to the Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering.
