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MassDEP raises C&D process separation-rate minimum to 25% by 2030, plans reporting revisions

Massachusetts Solid Waste Advisory Committee (MassDEP) · November 7, 2024
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Summary

MassDEP told SWAC it updated the construction-and-demolition (C&D) process-separation-rate minimum from 15% toward 25% by 2030, based on the 2022 waste characterization study, and will revise C&D facility annual-report forms and instructions to improve data precision ahead of 2025 filing.

Mike Elliott, speaking for MassDEP’s C&D subcommittee, told the Solid Waste Advisory Committee that MassDEP updated the C&D Minimum Performance Standard to reflect staged increases in the process separation rate (PSR) minimum threshold, with a target of 25% by 2030.

"Based on the data reported in the 2022 waste characterization study... MassDEP is very confident that the…

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