December 05, 2016
By:
Walter G. Wright
Category:
Arkansas Environmental, Energy, and Water Law
Arkansas Environmental, Energy, and Water Law
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The National Waste & Recycling Association (“NWRA”) issued an October, 2016 “White Paper” titled State of Organics Recovery (“Report”).
The co-authors of the Report are Chaz Miller and Anne Germain.
Organics are described by the Report in the context of waste streams as food and yard waste along with paper and wood waste. The combination of these wastes is stated to comprise almost half of the waste stream by weight.
The Report notes that the different “organic” wastes can have distinct differences. (i.e., by way of example, food waste is heavy and wet compared to yard waste, which is bulky but drier.) These and other differences are described by the Report. They are stated to be important considerations when planning for organics recovery.
As to the prospect for increased recovery of organics from the waste stream the Report provides a look:
…at the components and amount of organic waste, the existing recovery infrastructure, both in terms of operating facilities and legislative and regulatory framework governing these programs, the technologies used to recover organics and what is necessary to increase organics recovery.
The Report addresses issues such as:
- Defining “organics”;
- How much organics do we generate and throw away?
- Generation;
- Disposal
- Composition;
- Generators;
- Future trends in regulation;
- Organics law and regulation;
- Current organics management techniques – technology description and assessment;
- Landfill gas recovery;
- Infrastructure (collection, process and capacity);
- Incentives and barriers to increasing organics recovery.
A copy of the Report can be downloaded here.
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