Generation and Disposition of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) in the United States - A National Survey

In 2002-2010, the Earth Engineering Center (EEC) of Columbia University conducted a biannual survey on Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Generation and Disposition in the U.S., in collaboration with Ms. Nora Goldstein of BioCycle journal. This survey, published in BioCycle journal as "State of Garbage in America" (SOG), was based on data provided by the waste management agencies of the fifty states. The SOG survey was not carried out in 2012 and in 2013 EEC and BioCycle agreed that the 2013 Survey of Waste Generation and Disposition in the U.S. will be undertaken solely by the Earth Engineering Center.

 

Another objective of this study was to understand and try to resolve the large data discrepancy between landfilling data provided by the waste management agencies of the states to the EEC Survey and the EPA annual reports on MSW Facts and Figures.

 

 

Dolly Shin

 

Prof. Nickolas J. Themelis

 

 

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