Maryland Department of the Environment calls for operations
to cease due to lack of permits http://tinyurl.com/7wkz6k5
By Kevin Rector, krector@tribune.com
February 6, 2012
A Woodbine company that had been processing food scraps into
composted materials with commercial applications — a process lauded by state
and local officials as the next great frontier in recycling — has ceased those
operations after hearing concerns about pollution from the Maryland Department
of the Environment.
The impact has been far reaching, causing a string of
institutions and the Howard County government, which were all sending food
scraps to the facility, to find other, out-of-state facilities to handle the
material.
Recycled Green Industries, which is still processing yard
waste at its Carroll County facility off Kabik Court,
received a verbal request to stop its food waste operations from the department
on Dec. 22 because it did not have correct permits or processes in place to
handle food scraps, according to a department spokesman… http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/carroll/news/business/ph-ce-recycled-green-0205-20120205,0,5133383.story
[20120206 ExpCar Permitting issue ends firm recycling]
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