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Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 - Events start at 4:00 p.m.
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EREF Supported Student/Project Awarded Best Student Manuscript At The First Global Waste Management Symposium

Of the approximately 130 presentations at the Global Waste Symposium, in Copper Mountain, Colorado, September 7-12, 2008, 15 percent either reported on research funded by the Environmental Research and Education Foundation (EREF) or were presented by students that received scholarships from EREF.  Of particular note was a presentation by Lisa Damiano of the University of New Hampshire titled: Electricity Production from the Management of Leachate with Microbial Fuel Cells.  The research sponsored by EREF has shown promise in producing electricity from landfill leachate using microbial fuel cells as well as treating the leachate.  In addition, the manuscript was awarded first place for the Best Student Manuscript by a juried panel that reviewed all manuscripts.
more here

EREF sponsored research presented at GWMS included:

Quanification of Bacterial Motility and Chemotaxis in Porous Media Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
 - Mira Beth Stone Olsen

Electricity Production from the Management of Leachate
with Microbial Fuel Cells
 - Lisa L. Damiano and Jenna R. Jambeck

Performance of an Aerobic Digester for
Biodegredation of Green Waste
 - Ramin Yazdani, Mort Barlaz, and Don Augenstein

Effects of Temperature on Lignin Degredation in Biorector Landfills
 - Roberta J. Niemietz and John T. Novak

Thermal and Hydraulic Modeling of Subsurface Liquid Injection
in an Instrumented Landfill Model
 - Milind V. Khire, P.E. and Rahil G. Mijares

Evaluation of Factors Affecting the Initiation of
Methanogenesis in Solid Waste
 - Bryan F. Staley, Morton A. Barlaz, and Francis L. de los Reyes III
 

Sponsored by
Allied Waste Industries and Republic Services, Inc.
John Zillmer and Jim O'Connor, Chairmen

held Friday, October 17th, 2008
Arizona Biltmore Country Club
Phoenix, Arizona

generous sponsors of the 2008 tournament here

PUBLICATION NOW AVAILABLE
Municipal Solid Waste Landfill Leachate Characterization Study

The report increases the understanding of how operational practices, waste types, waste age, and other physical factors affect leachate quality with respect to typically regulated inorganic and volatile organic compounds, and biochemical constituents at municipal solid waste landfills.

To order the complete report on CD-ROM, download publication order form, or contact Sarah Stancliff at 703-299-5139 x10.

PUBLICATION NOW AVAILABLE
A Performance-Based Approach to 
Ending Post-Closure Care at 
Municipal Solid Waste Landfills:  
A Procedure for Providing Long-Term Stewardship 
Under RCRA Subtitle D

EREF developed an innovative approach toward evaluating long-term care needs at municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills.  The approach emphasizes the operation of MSW landfills in a manner that reduces the long-term threat to human health and the environment. Click here for Research Bulletin.

To order the complete report on CD-ROM, download publication order form, or contact Sarah Stancliff at 703-299-5139 x10.

Case Statement
from the President

Waste management practices are both time-honored and highly evolutionary.  The organized collection of waste dates back thousands of years, recycling at least hundreds. Yet, awareness of the relationship between wastes and the broader issues of human health and environmental protection is recent -- and powerful. In the past two decades, health and environmental concerns dramatically changed waste management practices.

While today's practices are widely recognized as providing adequate protection of health and the environment, it is also true that serious gaps remain in our understanding of the long-term sustainability of various waste management practices. Economic realities and environmental ideals sometimes clash in waste management. Public attitudes toward wastes and the waste management industry are often problematic, and political pressures for change are never far from the surface.

The foundation exists to address issues such as these and with grants awarded totaling more than $4.4 million, we are well on our way to becoming an important community resource working to develop environmental solutions for the future.

If you believe in our industry as strongly as we do and accept the premise that research leads to greater knowledge, then we hope you will join with us as a donor or through a strategic alliance.

Sincerely,
Michael J. Cagney 

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