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How the New Regulation Will Work

How the New Regulation Will Work. The Ban is just the Beginning The Practitioner’s Perspective Presented by Michael T. Lannan, P.E. www.TechEnv.com. What the Presentation Covers. Who am I? Why am I here? Am I IN or Am I OUT ?? What Collection & Storage Concerns? What is that Smell?

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How the New Regulation Will Work

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  1. How the New Regulation Will Work The Ban is just the Beginning The Practitioner’s Perspective Presented by Michael T. Lannan, P.E. www.TechEnv.com

  2. What the Presentation Covers.. • Who am I? Why am I here? • Am I IN or Am I OUT?? • What Collection & Storage Concerns? • What is that Smell? • What are the Hauling Concerns? • What are we going to do with all this Compost?

  3. Who am I? Why am I here? • An Odor Control Engineer • Food Waste Stinks… • What was Jim Stockdale’s middle name?

  4. Am I IN or Am I OUT?? • As discussed, if you can create more than one ton per week you are in • It is all about the waste generation basis and seasonal fluctuations • In reality, if your facility is near the limit and has a “back of the house” you are supposed to be in

  5. What are Some Collection and Storage Concerns?... • Hospitals/Universities – How will they handle food that is in offices, dorms or hospital rooms? • Restaurants – Should the front or back of the house be in charge, or included? • Managers of Mixed Uses – How do you decide who is responsible for what?

  6. What are Some Collection and Storage Concerns?... • What is my food waste composition for recycling going to be? • Food only – animal feed • Food and soiled paper – “compostables” • Food, soiled paper and “biodegradables”

  7. Compostable Collection and Storage Concerns… • Processing temperature can affect the “compostability”: • Psychrophilic – 68 °F • Mesophilic – 95 to 105 °F (PSRP-Class “B” Solids -(USEPA Title 40 Part 503)) • Thermophilic – 125 to 140 °F (PFRP-Class “A” Solids -(USEPA Title 40 Part 503))

  8. Compostable Collection and Storage Concerns… • ASTM D6400 – Specifications for Compostable Plastics • ASTM D5338 –Composting Aerobic Biodegradation of Plastic Materials • ASTM D6868 –Biodegradable Plastics Coatings on Paper • ISO 17088:2008 identification of plastics that can be aerobically composted • ISO 16929 or ISO 20200 – Disintegration test • EPA OPPTS 835.3110 – Biodegradability Fate Test • ISO 14855 – composting aerobic biodegradability of plastic materials

  9. Compostable Collection and Storage Concerns… • EN 13432 – Packaging Requirements for composting or biodegradation • BPI Certified – Compostable plastic products will biodegrade and compost (Biodegradable Plastics Institute) • BS EN 13432 – Packaging Requirements for packaging recoverable through composting & biodegradation (BSI Group)

  10. Compostable Collection and Storage Concerns… • The line is currently very blurred between compostable and biodegradable, so how does a facility know what to put in the bins?

  11. Biodegradable Collection and Storage Concerns… • ASTM D5511 – High-Solids Anaerobic Biodegradation of Plastic Materials • ASTM D5210 – Plastics Anaerobic Biodegradation with Sewage Sludge • ASTM D5271 – Plastics Aerobic Biodegradation in Activated Sludge • ISO 14853 – Anaerobic Biodegradation of plastic materials in an aqueous system • NWIP N1144 – Plastics Anaerobic Biodegradation in slurry phase systems

  12. Biodegradable Collection and Storage Concerns…

  13. Food Waste Collection and Storage Concerns… • My food waste is wet – Add contaminated paper or yard waste • Odor! – food waste stinks • Vectors want to eat too! – Fruit flies, skunks, rats, and bears, oh my. • Storage bags and liners limited – Bins need to be cleaned

  14. What is that smell?… • Food waste is mostly water • Food waste quickly becomes sugars, fatty acids and sulfur containing amino acids • MSW “fresh waste odor” is food

  15. Odor Reducing Storage Options…

  16. Food Waste Storage Options…

  17. What are the Hauling Concerns? • A one ton per week threshold creates “mixed” loads for regulated and unregulated facilities

  18. What are the Hauling Concerns? • Current food only hauling for farms is unregulated

  19. What are the Hauling Concerns? • Food waste must be picked up frequently and in small loads – 8 tpd

  20. What are we going to do with all this Compost?

  21. What are we going to do with all this Compost? • 200,000 new tons

  22. Thank You! Ph. (781) 890-2220 www.TechEnv.com

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