The transfer station has been a flash point in Manhattan politics since Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed reopening adormant site over a decade ago as part of an overhaul of the city's trash-removal system, which had relied largely on trucks and facilities concentrated in low-income neighborhoods in boroughs outside Manhattan.
Stibich showed that a high-energy form of UV called UV-C could kill C. diff, in either its active state or as adormant spore protected by a tough seedlike shell.