Environmental Alert: MassDEP’s Proposed Approach to Anaerobic Digestion: Solution or Stomachache?
12/12/2011
By Katy E. Ward
MassDEP has proposed amendments to the Commonwealth’s solid waste regulations to facilitate the recycling of food waste and other materials with high organic content that can be converted to energy. Under the new approach, eligible facilities would no longer be classified as solid waste management facilities requiring site assignment from the host municipality’s local board of health. Instead they would need authorization from MassDEP under a permitting system MassDEP has also proposed. The hope is that siting such facilities will now be easier.
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