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Developers and compost advocates say New Jersey’s enclosure requirement stalls commercial composting
Summary
Composting developers and advocates told a joint legislative hearing that New Jersey’s enclosure requirement for Class C recycling facilities and a stringent permitting regime are slowing development of community and commercial composting capacity.
Commercial composting developers and advocates told the joint Senate and Assembly environment committees that New Jersey’s permitting rules constrain the state’s ability to expand composting capacity and that a tiered regulatory system is needed to allow smaller, lower-risk operations.
Christina Picasso Liu of Vivari Ecologics told the committees that under current recycling rules “class c recycling facilities for food waste composting must operate in an enclosed structure,” a requirement she said “is not informed based on current compost science” and which “destroys the…
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