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EBC Solid Waste Leadership Webinar:

New England Regional Conference of

State Solid Waste Directors

Welcome

Environmental Business Council of New England

Energy Environment Economy

David Murphy

Chair, EBC Solid Waste Management Committee

Vice President, Tighe & Bond, Inc.

Thank you to our Sponsors

Program Introduction

Steve Wright

Program Chair and Moderator

Vice President, Sanborn, Head & Associates

Solid Waste Management Issues: Massachusetts

John Fischer

Deputy Division Director

Solid Waste Materials Management

Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection

EBC Solid Waste Directors Meeting

June 19, 2020

1. Solid Waste Master Plan Provides overall policy framework and direction

Final 2030 Plan still under review at MassDEP

Next steps - Finalize plan and begin implementation

New and updated Action Plans for:

Reduce & Reduction

Market Development

C&D Materials

Organics

Regulation review of 310 CMR 16.00 and 19.000

2. Recycling Markets & Contamination Values for many recyclables are low (though some

recent rebounds)

Recycling system burdened by cost of high contamination levels

Recycling Market Development

Recycling Business Development Grants

Recycling Loan Fund

Develop Comprehensive Action Plan

2. Recycling Markets & Contamination (cont.) Recycling IQ Kit

Boots on the ground local approach

Recycle Smart

Statewide initiative to raise awareness

Social media, Partner organizations

3. Management Capacity Materials Management Capacity Study

In state disposal capacity fully utilized

C&D processing and organics (AD) – capacity available

Transfer capacity available

Growth in rail transfer projects & capacity

Moratorium – propose to allow replacement WTE capacity within current limits

Recycling market development – grow recycling capacity

4. Waste Ban Compliance Continued non compliance observed in waste ban

inspections

About 1 in 4 loads are failed loads

Since 2013 issued nearly 1,200 NONs and 60 penalties

½ of penalties since start of 2019

Will begin to resume inspections this week

5. Waste Reduction Target Areas Greatest diversion potential

Cardboard

Textiles

Bulky Materials

Difficult to recycle – reduce or phase out

Single use packaging

5. Waste Reduction Target Areas Reuse & donation opportunities

Food donation

Building materials

Office furniture & equipment

Textiles & durable household goods

Local market opportunities

Food scraps

Mattresses

Textiles

Contact InformationJohn Fischer

Deputy Division Director, Solid Waste

John.fischer@mass.gov

Solid Waste Management Issues: Maine

Paula Clark

Director, Division of Materials Management

Bureau of Remediation and Waste Management

Maine Department of Environmental Protection

Solid Waste

Management Issues

in Maine - 2020

MAINE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

Protecting Maine’s Air, Land and Water

Paula Clark, Director

Division of Materials Management

Bureau of Remediation and Waste Management

Issues for Maine

• Product Stewardship Legislation

✓ Packaging

✓ Drug Take-back

✓ Single Use Bag Ban

• Definition of “Waste Generated Within the State”

• Waste Diversion and Recycling

• PFAS Initiatives

MAINE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION www.maine.gov/dep

Product Stewardship Legislation:

Packaging

• LD 2104 – An Act to Support and Increase the Recycling of Packaging

• Provide financial support to municipalities

• Decrease volume and toxicity of packaging

• Increase recycling and improve recycling outcomes

• Stewardship organization selected through competitive bid process to manage payments and investments

• Producers pay packaging fees; can lower cost by distributing less, redesign and alternative collection programs

• MAINE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION www.maine.gov/dep

Drug Take-Back• LD 1460 – An Act to Support Collection and Proper Disposal of

Unwanted Drugs

• Manufacturers required to participate (individually or collectively) in a drug take-back stewardship program

• Stewardship plans require DEP approval; must address collection, tracking, handling, education/outreach, measurement, performance goals and

financing

• “Mandatory pharmacy collectors” and

“authorized collectors”

Single Use Bag Ban

• Public Law 2019 Chapter 346 – “An Act to Eliminate Single-Use Plastic Carry-Out Bags”

• Bans single-use bags but included certain exemptions (e.g. bags for prescription medications, tires and newspapers)

• Allows alternative use of recycled paper or reusable plastic bags if charge a fee of at least 5 cents

• Preempts municipal regulation of single-use bags

• Legislation addressing pandemic issues extended effective date of certain single-use bag restrictions from April 22, 2020 to January 15, 2021 and established March 17, 2020 as the municipal preemption date

Definition of “Waste Generated

Within the State”• LD 401 - An Act to Preserve State Landfill Capacity and Promote

Recycling

• “Waste that is generated within the State” redefined

• State-owned landfills authorized by law to accept only in-state generated waste

• Processing residues from Maine facilities considered in-state waste

• Waste processing facilities required by law to “recycle to the maximum extent practicable but in no case less than 50%”

• At least 50% characterized as recycled must be by methods other than placement in a landfill (e.g. as ADC)

• Alternative standard for certain processing facilities

• Stakeholder submission of a petition for rulemaking

Waste Diversion and Recycling

• Continuing priorities in accordance with the 2019 State Materials Management Plan

• Continued focus on Food Recovery Hierarchy

• Maine Solid Waste Diversion Grant Program

PFAS Initiatives

• Directive to licensed facilities to sample/analyze for PFOA, PFOS, PFBS – Spring 2019

• Approval required for continued land application and distribution

• Data for 52 sludges, 17 composts, 8

paper mill residuals, 86 site soils

• Ongoing testing requirements

• Final Report of the Governor’s PFAS

task force issued in January 2020

PFAS Testing ProgramSludge and Compost Sampling Locations

Contact:

www.maine.gov/dep

Paula M. Clark

paula.m.clark@maine.gov

207-287-7718

Solid Waste Management Issues: Connecticut

Robert Isner

Director

Waste Engineering and Enforcement Division

Connecticut Dept. of Energy & Environmental Protection

Connecticut Department ofEnergy and Environmental Protection

Robert Isner, CT DEEPJune 19, 2020

Virtual Meeting

Overview

• COVID-19• CMMS CT’s Solid Waste Plan

(Comprehensive Materials Management Strategy)

• MIRA RFP• PFAS• Compliance Assurance

COVID-19

• Emergency Declaration (EO7, 3/12/20)

• New Terminology

• DEEP Telework

• Waste Sector dialog

• EO7N – Essential Business

• Risk Messaging - Bottle Bill & Bags

• Enforcement Discretion

• CT Phase 2 Reopening – 6/17/20

• What’s next

Comprehensive Materials Management Strategy

The “CMMS”

• 2016 update, Solid Waste Management Plan

- Hierarchy / self-sufficiency

• 3 Pillars

– Improve municipal performance

– Develop/improve conversion technologies

– EPR

• Track CMMS progress at CMMS webpage

What’s Still in Connecticut’s Trash? (as of 2015)

• No active municipal MSW landfills

• Manchester LDF, open/ non-MSW

- (C&D, soils, bulky waste)

• few municipal only bulky waste landfills

• 5 remaining WtE/RRFs

- 2 big, 2,000TPD Hartford/Bridgeport

- 3 small (Bristol/Lisbon/Preston)

- 2 closed (Wallingford RRF/Sterling tire RRF)

• 1 Ash landfill, Wheelabrator/Putnam

-2019 expansion app. pending = 30+ yrs

• 1 Wood Fuel only WtE facility, Plainfield

Capacity & CT Infrastructure

• Municipal outreach to adopt unit-based pricing systems

(EPA SMART model, good fiscal option)

• Organics focus: Anaerobic Digestion; Commercial composting; Residential Composting; Donation/diversion - recycling of organics

• Product Stewardship / Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) approaches

Transformation Strategies

• 4 Commercial ADs permitted facilities(Bridgeport, 2 – Southington, North Haven)

> Supreme/Quantum Biopower Southington

> 3 other projects pending construction

• Many preapplication discussions

• 2 Commercial Composting facilities(Ellington, New Milford)

• Small scale muni & community projects

• Interactive GIS Map of large scale food residual generators and processing facilities

Conversion TechnologiesAnaerobic Digestion

MIRA RFP ( Public Act 14-94 )

• Resource Rediscovery webpage

- All publicly available info

• RFP background/schedule/scope

-Nov.’15 – Dec.’17 proposal review/selection

-2018-2020 contract negotiations

• Status

- Contract teams (MIRA/SRRT) near impasse

- 5/28/20 MIRA vote to end process on 8/31/20

• Next Steps, uncertain:

> MIRA to resolve large-scale financing???

> Develop options consistent with CMMS???

PFAS• WPLR/Remediation Div. PFAS webpage

• What are PFAS?

• Known PFAS SourcesToxicity and Health Effects

• PFAS ResourcesConnecticut PFAS History

• PFAS Task Force

• Interagency Task Force homepage– OTG, DEEP & DPH led

– Listserv

– 11/4/2019 Report & Action plan

Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection

CT INTERAGENCY PFAS TASK FORCE

- Task Force goals:

- Identify impacts to health and environment

- Listen to stakeholders’ concerns

- Identify actions to address impacts

DraftAction Plan

to Governor

Task Force

Meeting 1

Task ForceMeeting 2

Task Force

Meeting 3

Governor establishe

s Task Force

Public comment

period

Committee meetings

Final Action Plan to

Governor

11/110/15

Committee meetings

PFAS• Next Steps (within funding & staff)

– Ongoing stakeholder dialog/collaboration

– Develop standards

Ambient/surface water; landfills, composting & biosolids; action levels, etc.

– AFFF Municipal Takeback program (CT DESPP)

– RFP - Environmental media sampling

– Modify regulatory controls

(permits, regulations, SOPs)

– Capital investment with DPH for equipment

(State Health lab instrumentation)

– Ongoing technical guidance

(sampling & analysis methods & protocols, etc.)

Compliance Assurance• DEEP’s Compliance Assurance Policy

– Balanced assistance, permits/enforcement

• 20 By 20 Initiative

- 6/2019, Comm Dykes-deliver DEEP mission “Predictably, Efficiently, & Transparently”

- Listserv available for email updates

- Many Permit Goals,

#3 includes legacy SW legacy permit apps

- EPA ELMS (Enviro Lean Management System)

adopted for SW weekly tracking/action

• COMPASS (Compliance Assistance)

- Continuous thru COVID-19

• Recycling Enforcement & Education

Compliance Assurance• Waste Program Compliance Monitoring

- Reduced & ongoing during COVID-19

• DEEP Enforcement Discretion Statement

- parallels CT Emergency Declaration (EO7)

• Developing Social Distancing SOPs

• What to expect:

- some traditional inspections (COVID safe)

- more data reviews & remote sensing

- enforcement correspondence; self-audits, PIQ, Key indicators (no records)

- RESPOND if asked, No-Response = prioritized for inspection or formal tools

• Dialog with EPA & state peers

Contacts & Assistance:

- ct.gov/deep

- DEEP COVID-19 Response

- COMPASS (Compliance Assistance Line)(888) 424-4193

- SWAC / HWAC (Advisory Committees)

- RecycleCT

- PFAS webpage

Robert Isner, (860) 424-3264robert.isner@ct.gov

Solid Waste Management Issues: New Hampshire

Michael Wimsatt

Director, Waste Management Division

New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services

Mike Wimsatt, Director, Waste Management Division

NH Department of Environmental Services

EBC Solid Waste Management Webinar

New England Regional Conference of State Solid Waste Directors

June 19, 2020

▪ Statute establishes preferences, but agency’s ability to

influence is limited

▪ Landfilling plays outsized role in state’s infrastructure,

contrary to hierarchy

▪ Waste-to-Energy facing

pressures, limited

diversion infrastructure

Challenge No. 1Incentivizing an Integrated SW Management System

▪ 300+ closed, unlined landfills – largely municipally owned

▪ Monitoring/maintenance requirements are performance-

based, not time-based

▪ Post-closure period ends once landfill no longer poses risk

to human health or the environment

Challenge No. 2Closed Landfill Management

▪ Emerging contaminant challenges

highlight importance of post-

closure care

▪ Presence of PFAS in LF leachate

▪ Implications for leachate management if

WWTF’s won’t accept

▪Higher risk-aversion – LF’s more cautious

about accepting wastes, including soils,

with high PFAS concentrations

▪ Alternative treatment methods - need

for further investigation

Challenge No. 3Perfluorochemicals & Other Emerging Contaminants

▪ Challenges advancing longer-term initiatives and robustly

engaging with stakeholders

▪ State Solid Waste Management Plan

▪ Rule re-adoption (2024)

▪ Key rule revisions

▪ Composting rules overhaul

▪ General permits for selected facility types

▪ Interacting with legislature to advance SW management

issues

Challenge No. 4Planning & Engagement

▪ Lack of dedicated SW program fund – reliance on general funds

▪ Lack of resources due to successive general fund constraints

▪ Recent retirements, combined with challenges back-filling

(esp. engineering/permitting positions)

▪ Affects agency’s ability to address critical SW challenges

Challenge No. 5Staffing & Program Resources

Five Critical SW Management Challengesfor New Hampshire

1. Incentivizing an Integrated SW Management System

2. Closed Landfill Management

3. Perfluorochemicals & Other Emerging Contaminants

4. Planning & Engagement

5. Staffing & Program Resources

Mike Wimsatt, (603) 271-1997

michael.wimsatt@des.nh.gov

Jaime Colby, (603) 271-5185

jaime.colby@des.nh.gov

Michael Nork, (603) 271-2936

michael.nork@des.nh.gov

Thank you!

Solid Waste Management Issues: Rhode Island

Mark Dennen

Supervising Environmental Scientist

Office of Land Revitalization & Sustainable Materials

Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management

SOLID WASTE UPDATES FOR Rhode Island

Mark Dennen, CPG- Supervising Environmental Scientist

Robert Schmidt, Environmental Engineer

RIDEM/ Office of Land Revitalization and Sustainable Materials Management

Solid Waste Topics

Medical Waste/Covid 19 Anaerobic Digestion/Food Waste Solar Development at Landfills Permitting and Enforcement Upgrades to Solid Waste Facilities

Overview of Waste Management in Rhode Island

1 Large Active Landfill run by Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corp. (pseudo-state Corporation) Also runs large scale composting and recycling program

Incineration discouraged by statute

Slated to close after current 2 phases (2030?)

1 small municipal landfill (closing winter 2020) 1 Large C&D Processing Facility (2000 tons/day) 1 Large Anaerobic Digester (in construction- 200 tons/day) 1 Large Medical Waste processing facility

Potential New Facilities

1 New C&D Transfer Station (North Kingstown) 1 transfer station and C&D Processing facility application in

Providence is no longer going to proceed. 1 Medical Waste Facility in West Warwick is in the application

process for Pyrolysis

REGULATED MEDICAL WASTE

Expectation of huge increase in regulated medical waste due to COVID-19 Not realized.

COVID-19 Waste does not need special handling as its survivability and mechanism of transmission not different from other pathogens.

Many firms doing “COVID-19 Cleaning” meaning aggressive cleaning of residential and businesses. Rags, etc, generated from these do not meet definition of Regulated Medical Waste and are therefore solid waste.

Facilities have emphasized hazards in overmanaging non-medical waste (furniture, rugs, etc.) hard to treat.

MEDICAL WASTE TREATMENT

1 Large Facility (Stericycle) handles most of New England’s Waste Capacity recently increased from 90-153 tons/day

Waste treated in 2 large Autoclaves and 1 sharps autoclave

BUD for treated needles no longer active

Incineration for red bag waste

Pyrolysis

RI composting facility regulations 1 Large Anaerobic Digester 1 Agricultural Compost Operations 2 Smaller Putrescible Waste Operations Leaf and Yard Composting at 17 other sites

Anaerobic Digester

Anaerobic Digester Residual Disposal

Site in Tiverton was accepting partially empty containers from Anaerobic Digester in MA together with other food waste

Bob will edit this. Severe odor issues Shut down

History of A.D. Facility Regulation Usage

1. Current applicant (Orbit Energy): Approx. 200 tons/day organic input Wet digestion process Methane- 3.2 MW combined with power production Solid digestate- compost facility input Has secured air permit and wastewater discharge permits Still fine tuning process not up to speed

Solar at Landfill

RIDEM is encouraging solar arrays at landfills. New Solid Waste Regulations may give some relief from stormwater

and wetlands for solar on closed landfill footprint. Tiverton landfill currently closing may use closure turf to facilitate

solar. Site with and without engineered cap are continuing to undergo

solar development

Regulatory Compliance at Solid Waste Facilities

Management of waste in enclosed buildings Management of leachate Litter Control Odor Control

For More Information:

Mark Dennen, CPG Supervising Environmental ScientistRIDEM/Office of Waste Management

235 Promenade St.Providence, RI 02908

tel. 401.222.2797 ext. 7502fax 401.222.3812

e-mail: mark.Dennen@dem.ri.gov

Solid Waste Management Issues: Vermont

Cathy Jamieson

Solid Waste Program Manager

Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation

EBC of New EnglandCritical Solid Waste Issues

June 2020 WebinarCathy Jamieson

Solid Waste Program

Critical Solid WasteIssuesforVermont

PFAS and Landfills

Sustainability of Recycling

Climate Change / LCAsWaste ReductionFood WasteSUPs / Purchase Info

VermontPFAS Sampling Studies

Waste Streams

Landfill Leachate and WWTFs

Leachate Treatment Options

www.dec.vermont.gov/pfas

Link to NEWMOA webinar with Kasey Kathan of VT DEC:

http://www.newmoa.org/events/event.cfm?m=409

NEWSVT Waste Stream PFASSampling

Sanborn & Head Report(Oct 2019)

Leachate and WWTFsPFASSampling

Weston & Sampson Report (Jan 2020) 0

Summary of Sum of 5 Regulated PFAS at all WWTF Facilities Sampled

Influent Effluent

PFAS Leachate TreatmentOptions

Brown & Caldwell Report (Oct 2019)

Requirement: Evaluate leachate treatment options for PFAS; recommend 2 onsite and 2 off-site options

Recommendations: Direct Discharge to Surface Water – reverse osmosis followed by

granulated activated carbon

Zero Liquid Discharge – leachate concentration (evaporation)

Pretreat leachate before WWTF

Enhance WWTF to treat all effluent

Challenges: Treatment options concentrate or capture PFAS – residuals must be

stabilized or destroyed

Private public partnerships required for options at WWTF

No promulgated treatment or discharge standard – scoped for full removal of PFAS

Sustainability of Recycling

China Sword

Contamination

Mixed Messages

Packaging Changes

Multi-material

Packaging

MRF Automation

Commingled collection

Market Fluctuation

Wishcycling

Challengeswith Recycling

High Volume

Contamination

Packaging is Changing / Complex

Inability to influence product or packaging design/choices

Low value of materials, while costs are increasing

If not recycled, then what? Add to disposal issues?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzZ2fu38NTs&list=PLb5jIRj04Vi9K_60xb8nvmALZ74tEIiHs

Vermont’s SUPs Ban Law:

Plastic Bags

Plastic Straws

Expanded Polystyrene

and stirrers

States are considering …

Banning sales of certain products or packaging,Single Use items

Expanding Bottle Bills

Mandating post-consumer recycled content in certain products/packaging

EPR for Printed Materials and Packaging

118 EPR

Programsin

33 States and D.C.

To date, no state has passed EPR for paper & packaging.

Climate Change and Solid Waste

Consumption/ Disposal of Goods

Reduction

Food Waste

SUP / Purchase Info

EPA GHGe

Source: Opportunities to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions through Materials and Land Management Practices, US EPA - Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (September 2009) –http://www.epa.gov/oswer/docs/ghg_land_and_materials_management.pdf#22

System BasedEPA GHGe

Reduction isGreatest Benefit

Same Source as previous slide

Wasted Food and Food Waste

Multiple BenefitsFor Diverting Food Waste

Vermont’s Mandatory Food WasteDiversionLaw

Phases for larger food scrap generators, if there is a facility within 20 miles

2014 > 104 tons/year 2 tons/wk

2015 > 52 tons/year 1 ton/wk

2016 > 26 tons/year 1/2 ton/wk

2017 > 18 tons/year 1/3 ton/wk

July 1, 2020 all food scraps banned from disposal regardless of distance

Single-Use ProductsLegislation

How much plastic single-use products are disposed?

BBC Link:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-49011896

More to Come

Stay Tuned

cathy.jamieson@vermont.gov

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