DSM's office, downtown Windsor Vermont. Located in the Upper Connecticut River Valley and easily accessible to Boston, Hartford, Burlington (VT) and Montreal. DSM performed an analysis of automated, MSW and recycling collection system options in the city of Columbus, Ohio in order to help determine the best methods to integrate recycling into the current collection system. The New York City Economic Development Corporation (EDC) hired DSM to conduct a feasibility study of organics recovery options at the Hunts Point Food Distribution Center in the Bronx. The sources of material to be recovered are the Hunts Point Cooperative Produce Market (the largest produce market in the US) and the Fulton Fish Market (the oldest fish market in the US. DSM's role was to conduct a waste characterization analysis of the two markets.
DSM has conducted Phase I Environmental Site Assessments to help the Trust for Public Land and other land conservation organizations conserve over 500,000 acres of forest, wetland, field and streams in Northern New England and New York. Low-carbon-emission collection. Man with Donkey in Tajikistan. DSM has been working as a sub-contractor to the Urban Institute in Tajikistan since 2003 on various projects.
Sorting for waste characterization study in Iowa. Kyrgyzstan landscape. Hand sorting in Boston.
Finding illegal dump sites on conservation land during a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment. Running core samples in Indonesia. Great Wall of China. Ted Siegler identified and quantified Industrial Waste Management Strategies for the Changzhou Region, China, while retained by the World Bank. Siegler's work focused on the identification and quantification of industrial solid and hazardous waste generation, and opportunities for waste minimization, recycling and disposal for this highly industrialized area of China.