Cornell Waste Management Institute


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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

SAVE THE DATE...May 21-24, 2012.
"4th International Symposium on Managing Animal Mortality, Products, By-Products, and Associated Health Risk: Connecting Research, Regulations, and Response" Details .
CALL FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS - Deadline: January 6, 2012.

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

What's New

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

"Composting is Easy: Why Don't People Get It?" A Sustainable Materials Management webinar - viewed 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.

Webinars - current and archived on various composting topics.

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

CWMI Update - October 2011.


About CWM Composting Farm Waste Management Sewage Sludge Soil Quality Health and Safety Resources Search Home

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