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MassDEP expands grant, inspection and market‑development efforts to cut banned materials in trash
Summary
MassDEP told the Solid Waste Advisory Committee in June it is expanding grant and loan support, technical assistance and inspections to reduce banned materials in commercial loads and spur recycling markets, and reported 465 notices of noncompliance and 12 administrative consent orders tied to waste‑ban enforcement since 2021.
The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection’s commercial waste reduction branch outlined an array of market‑development grants, technical assistance and enforcement activity at the Solid Waste Advisory Committee meeting in June, saying the state is combining funding and inspections to reduce banned and targeted materials in commercial trash.
“Every four or so loads of trash that MassDEP observes at solid waste facilities contains significant amounts of materials that are banned from disposal,” Claudine Nalian, commercial waste reduction branch chief at MassDEP, said in her presentation, noting the agency’s goal to reduce banned‑material content in waste‑fill loads to 10% by 2030.
MassDEP described several funding tools…
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