Center Information
The Center for Integrated Waste Management is a research and community service organization located in the Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering - School of Engineering and Applied Sciences of the University at Buffalo, the State University of New York. The Center brings together those in academia, government, and industry who are seeking innovative solutions to environmental challenges. The Center promotes the development and application of improved environmental technologies and management methods for 1) more effectively remediating past environmental contamination and promoting redevelopment of formerly contaminated properties, and 2) preventing, reducing, reusing, and recycling industrial and municipal waste streams. The Center provides assistance to communities, industries, businesses, public agencies, and other non-profit organizations.
One of the Center's main focus areas is to find better ways to conserve and recover both natural and man-made resources used in industrial processes and by consumers. The Center's resource recovery efforts have included, among others, a targeted inventory of solid non-hazardous waste streams generated by key industries in Western New York; creation of a self-help guide for the recovery and recycle of process waters and materials used by metal finishing companies; and an examination of the use of tire derived aggregate as a replacement for natural stone aggregate in the construction of septic system leach field systems.