Other State agencies and academic institutions took notice, including NYSDOT, DEC's Division of Solid and Hazardous Materials and Wildlife Pathology Unit, the New York State Department of Health, and the Cornell Waste Management Institute (CWMI).
I am increasingly convinced that in some places people are getting sick, sometimes very sick, from Class B sludge applications," says Ellen Harrison, director of the Cornell Waste Management Institute in Ithaca, New York.
Participating in that meeting were the Association of Plastics Manufacturers, Europe; Plastics Waste Management Institute, Europe; Plastics Waste Management Institute, Japan; SPI's Council for Solid Waste Solutions (U.
Report prepared by the Waste Management Institute, MSRC, State University of New York at Stony Brook, for the Dynamac Corporation as part of EPA's New York Bight Restoration Plan.
These sludges are the worst media you can imagine because they will generate antibiotic resistant organisms," said Murray McBride, director of the Cornell Waste Management Institute.
