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The Cornell Waste Management Institute (CWMI) is a program in the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University. CWMI serves the public through research, outreach, training, and technical assistance, with a focus on organic residuals.
 
 

 

The principles on which CWMI rests are:

  • identifying critical needs through working with stakeholders;
  • building on the strengths of Cornell--its faculty and staff;
  • teamwork and collaboration including on and off-campus colleagues and stakeholders;
  • a focus on multidisciplinary work; and
  • integration of research and outreach.

Links of Interest

  

May 21-24, 2012.
"4th  International Symposium on Managing Animal Mortality, Products, By-Products, and Associated Health Risk: Connecting Research, Regulations, and Response" is being held in Dearborn, MI. Register Now!

 

NYS Compost Facilities Map has been updated! Please click here to search, update and/or add your facility. (Works best in Mozilla)

 
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Events

"International Compost Awareness Week," May 6-12, 2012.

"Strive For Sustainability" - Solid Waste & Recycling Conference with Trade Show, Bolton Landing, NY. May 20-23, 2012.

"Managing Organic Residuals PWT," Greenwich, NY. May 31, 2012. Register by May 23rd.

Webinars - current and archived on various composting topics.

Publications

"Horse Mortality: Carcass Disposal Alternatives" fact sheet. An accompanying video will be available soon!

"In-vessel Composting Options for Medium-Scale Food Waste Generators" BioCycle article. Click here.

Waste Hierarchy For Organics" - poster displaying the organics hierarchy: reduce, reuse, recycle, landifll, incineration. Click here.

"Composting at Home - the Green and Brown Alternative" fact sheet. Click here.

"Home Composting" updated slide presentation (PDF).

"How Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis is affected by the composting process" article published in Trends in Animal & Veterinary Sciences Journal. Click here.

US Butcher Waste and Mortality Disposal Laws. A searchable map of policy, regulations and guidance of US disposal laws. Updated April 2012.

CWMI Update - April 2012
About CWM  Composting Farm Waste Management Sewage Sludge Soil Quality Health and Safety Resources  Search Home

Cornell Waste Management Institute © 2007
Dept of Crop and Soil Sciences
817 Bradfield Hall, Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
607-255-1187 • cwmi@cornell.edu

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