WTERT International Colleagues Participate in EEC|CCNY’s First Seminar Series on Waste Sustainability

EEC|CCNY offered its first seminar series on waste sustainability at City College of New York this past spring semester. The seminar series, led by Assoc. Director Demetra Tsiamis, featured guest lecturers from around the world in industry, academia, and government to discuss waste management methods, technologies, policies, and behaviors that effectively advance waste sustainability. Guest lecturers included the Deputy Commissioner of Recycling of the Department of Sanitation of New York City (DSNY), the former Deputy Commissioner of the NYC Department of Environmental Protection (NYC DEP), the Chief of Sustainable Materials Management of the US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA), Ramboll, as well as our colleagues from the WTERT: Professor Nickolas Themelis and Dr. Thanos Bourtsalas of WTERT-US at Columbia University and Professor Stefano Consonni of Politecnico di Milano and WTERT-Italy, MatER.