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Bottle Bill

Bottle Law: The Retail Perspective. Brodhagen, Patricia. Food Industry Alliance of NYS, Inc. 2008.
Scavenging and the Bottle Bill. Lange, Robert. Director, NYC Department of Sanitation. 2008.
The Bottle Bill: It’s Time to Make it Better! Sobol, Peter. Empire State Beer Distributors Association. 2008.

Composting

Developing a Composting Program Without a Budget. Cala, Erin. Green Office, University at Buffalo. 2008.
Food Waste Recycling at the State Fair. Cooper, Jeff. Onondaga County Resource Recovery Agency. 2008.
Managing and Composting Food Residuals. Rynk, Bob. SUNY Cobleskill. 2008.
Garbage, Food and Energy: How We Make a Difference. Warford, Mark. Howard L. Goff Middle School. 2008.

Electronics Recycling

Downstream Audits and Data Destruction. Muscanelli, Peter R. Waste Management & Recycling Products, Inc. 2008.
NYS Proposed Electronics Recycling Regulations. Ching, Michelle, PE & Hershey, Kate, NYSDEC. 2008.
Who’s Minding the Monitors? E-Recycling and the Importance of BMPs. Hale, Amanda. Sims Recycling Solutions. 2008.

Green Development

Building Material Reuse and Recycling in New York City. Green, Justin. Build it Green! 2008.
Building Materials Reuse and Deconstruction in New York. Jacobs, Linda. Environmental Services Unit, Empire State Development. 2008.
Greening New York City. Hurd, David. Council on the Environment of New York City. 2008.
Partnerships for Successful Building Materials Reuse. Cohen, Diane. Director, Finger Lakes Reuse, Inc. 2008.
PlaNYC: A Greener, Greater New York. Hurd, David. Council on the Environment of New York City. 2008.
We’re In It Together; Public/Private Partnerships. Durst, Helena. The Durst Organization and Manhattan SWAB Recycling Committee. 2008.

Greenhouse Gas / Carbon Credits

Chicago Climate Exchange. Ferretti, William M., PhD. Vice President, Chicago Climate Exchange, Inc. 2008.
GHG Credit Trading and Landfills. McCarron, Greg, PE. SCS Engineers, PC. 2008.
Managing and Maximizing Your Landfill Gas Credits. Lynch, Steven. R.S. Lynch & Company, Inc. 2008.
Recycling and Climate Change Legislation. Skernolis, Ed. Director of Policy and Programs, National Recycling Coalition. 2008.
Transforming a Greenhouse Gas Source to Renewable Energy. Themelis, Nickolas J. Director, Earth Engineering Center, Columbia University. 2008.
Global Climate Change. Canterbury, Jan. Office of Solid Waste, USEPA. 2008.

Hazardous Material

Plasticizers in the Environment: Phthalates. Ellefson, Anne Cooper. School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University. 2008.
Removing Home Generated Sharps from Household Waste. Schumann, Jenny. Coalition for Safe Community Needle Disposal. 2008.
Tritium EXIT Signs in Solid Waste. Allard, David J., CHP. Director, Pennsylvania DEP, Bureau of Radiation Protection. 2008.
Tritium in Municipal Solid Waste: Research Update. Mutch, Robert D., Jr., PHg, PE & Mahony, John, PhD. Hydroqual, Inc. 2008.

Landfill Cover, Caps, and Closure

Alternate Landfill Covers – Current Practice and Key Technical Considerations. Prucha, Chris. Waste Management, Inc. 2008.
Case Histories with Waste Management’s Alternative Final Cover Program. Johnson, Terry, PG. Waste Management, Inc. 2008.
Closure Design at a Partially Reclaimed Landfill. Wilkinson, Lisa K., PE. SCS Engineers, PC. 2008.
Fort Drum Design/Build Landfill Cap Improvements. Conrad, Tom, PE. Goudreau, Mike, PE & Scrimgeour, Marcus, PE. SCS Engineers, PC. 2008.
Landfill Post-Closure – What is the Real Cost? How New Cost Cap Policies Impact the Future. Gregory, Anthony, PE, O’Dell, Daryl, EIT, & Swyka, Mark, PE. Cornerstone Environmental Group, LLC. 2008.
Lysimeters vs. Actual Caps – A Closer Look. Khire, Milind V., PhD, PE. Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Michigan State University. 2008.

Landfill Design and Operations

Clinton County Landfill Expansion. Becker, Dale A. Engineering Geologist II, NYSDEC. Gay, John B., IE. Casella Waste Management, Inc. McDowell, Cory J., PE. Barton & Loguidice, PC. 2008.
Diary of a Defect. Smith, Bradford L., PE. Stearns & Wheler. Swyka, Mark, PE. Cornerstone Environmental Group, LLC. 2008.
Geotextile Containment Dewatering Test Methods: Their Extension to Full-Scale Operation. Meagher, James E. Mineral Processing Services, LLC. 2008.
Real World Leachate Recirculation – One Landfill’s Experience. Ryan, Martin L., PE. Ocean County Landfill Corporation. Shaw, Prentiss A., PE. Cornerstone Environmental Group, LLC. 2008.

Landfill Gas

Eco-line Landfill Gas Energy Project. Davis, Alan. Waste Management of New Hampshire. 2008.
LFG Planning Saves Time and Money. Bilgri, Thomas A., PE. Cornerstone Environmental Group, LLC. 2008.
Solid Waste Facilities: Odor, Health and LFG Safety. Lannan, Michael T. Tech Environmental. 2008.

Nanotechnology

Environmental Applications and Implications of Nanotechnology. Otto, Marti & Saleem, Zubair, PhD. USEPA. 2008.
Nanotechnology and Risk Assessment. Linkov, Igor, PhD. US Army Engineer Research and Development Center. Zemba, Stephen. Cambridge Environmental Inc. 2008.
Thinking Small: How Nanotechnology Could Benefit the Waste Industry. Dick, Robert E., PE. SCS Engineers, PC. 2008.

Rail Haul

Moving New York City’s Trash by Rail. Cohen, Alan & Worster, Shawn. HDR Engineering, Inc. Czwartacky, Walter. DSNY. 2008.
Waste by Rail – Exporting Waste off Long Island. Lieberman, Bruce. NY & Atlantic Railway. 2008.

Reuse / Recycling<

Getting the Message Out (and In) In the Digital Age: Utilizing Web-based Survey Tools. Lawton, Kristen. Onondaga County Resource Recovery Agency. 2008.
It’s All Mental – The Psychology of Resource Management. Hill, Lorinda. Rockland Community College. 2008.
New On-line Regional Recycling Markets Database. Bradley, Athena L. Northeast Recycling Council, Inc. 2008.
Public Private Partnerships: Materials for the Arts. Schaffer, Andrea. City Matters, LLC and Chair of Manhattan SWAB. 2008.
Recycling Makes Sense. Remolador, Mary Ann. Northeast Recycling Council, Inc. 2008.
Used Clothing: Collection, Reuse, and Recycling. Olsson, Fred. Planet Aid, Inc. 2008.
Biodiesel from Waste Vegetable Oil. Howie, Bruce J., PE. HDR Engineering, Inc. 2008.
Public / Private Partnerships. Quinn, Maite. Sprint Recycling and President of NY Chapter of ISRI. 2008.

Solid Waste Management

NYCRR Part 360 Update Policies and Priority Issues. Lynch, Tom, PE & Treers, Melissa, PE. DEC. 2008.
Baling Opportunities for Solid Waste. Mullins, Ken. Conestoga-Rovers & Associates. 2008.
Fact or Fiction? Solid Waste and Recycling Metrics Panel. Ribiero, Gus, Lang, Jaime, Wagner, Gerard, & Menrath, Scott, PE. Bureau of Solid Waste, Reduction & Recycling, NYSDEC. 2008.
Implementing the NYC Solid Waste Management Plan. Harkins, Daniel. HDR Engineering, Inc. Czwartacky, Walter. DSNY. 2008.
PAYT in Massachusetts. Lambert, Joseph. Massachusetts DEP. 2008.
Redefining the Way New Yorkers Value Trash. Brown, Kristen. Phoenix Recycling / Waste Solutions. 2008.
Solid Waste System Modeling. Shabat, Daniel, PE. & Pytlar, Theodore S., Jr., PE. Dvirka & Bartilucci. 2008.
Sustainability and “Carbon Footprint” Issues for Solid Waste Management Facilities. Kuniholm, Peter F., PE. SCS Engineers, PC. 2008.
Managing Excavated Historic Fill Material. Brezner, Kenneth B., PE. NYSDEC. 2008.
Is One Contract Better Than Twelve? Brickner, Bob. Vice President, Gershman, Brickner, & Bratton, Inc. 2008.

Vapor Intrusion

Soil Vapor Investigation Case Study – Tantalo Waste Disposal Facility. Roeper, Timothy R., PG. HydroQual, Inc. Hasek, Thomas P. Seneca Meadows Inc. 2008.
The Patchy Fog Model of Vapor Intrusion. Festa, Tom & Wertz, Bill. NYSDEC. 2008.
Vapor Intrusion Management for Residential Development at a Former Landfill. DiPippo, Gary J., PE. HydroQual, Inc. 2008.

Waste Diversion

Beyond Waste: A Sustainable Materials Management Strategy for New York. Dimino, Resa A. NYSDEC Policy Office. 2008.
How Zero Waste is Shaping Policy in Vermont. Barlow, Donna. Central Vermont Waste Management District. 2008.

Waste-to-Energy

Briquetting and Gasification: A New Approach to WTE and Public System Partnerships. Henriquez, Stephan. Ecosystem Projects, LLC. 2008.
Materials Recycling vs. Energy Recovery: A Limited Environmental and Economic Comparison. Demme, David C. PE. R.W. Beck, Inc. 2008.
The United States Perspective. Porter, Derek & Waffenschmidt, John G. Covanta Energy Corp. 2008.
What’s New on the European Front? Raila, Susan J., PE. HDR Engineering, Inc. 2008.