EPA Solid Waste link

As mentioned earlier the EPA has updated their definitions of solid waste, which should make things easier for the industries to obtain test permit and formal revisions to existing permits allowing the combustion of waste derived materials within their process.   Key wording such as ‘processed’ allows for waste derived fuels to be re-classified as a product available to the industries.  This also avoids the complications that would arise if the companies would need to obtain an incineration permit to handle ’solid waste’.

Much more available at:

http://www.epa.gov/epawaste/nonhaz/define/index.htm#fr

Enjoy - if it has BTU and it’s none haz, let’s burn it!  Of course let’s also stay within our existing permit limits.

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It’s been a while since the last entry and it also indicates that there was not much to write about. Like the stalled US recovery, many of the programs that we have been involved with are also stalled. Budgets are still tight, energy prices are increasing with recent events and environmental issues are still being worked on.
There is a glimmmer of hope related to the EPA’s ruling on the definition of solid wastes. This ruling directly affects the permitting requirements for industry to burn non-hazardous waste materials. I still don’t understand why it has taken this long, and if not ordered by a judge, the EPA’s ruling would have taken even longer to be published. Why re-invent the wheel when many European have similar or even stricter regulations than the EPA’s latest round of definitions?
I will be writng more on this in the next couple of days, so stay tuned!