northampton landfill waste ban compliance program

Northampton Landfill Waste Ban Compliance

Program

April 25, 2006

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Overview•History•Advantages•Philosophy•Results•Future

History• 1980: MOU’s with member municipalities ban OCC, office paper, • glass & metal containers, yard & leaf waste from disposal• 1987: Yard & leaf waste composting site registered (1st in state)• 1989: Mandatory recycling ordinances required for all member • communities • 1990: Scrap metal & wood waste (clean wood, tree waste brush) banned• 1995: DARP/DACP exemptions ignored• 1998: C&D processing permit (to produce alternative daily cover) issued by DEP • 1999: CRTs banned (prior to state-wide ban) • 2001: Mattresses banned• 2005: DARP/DACP exemptions still ignored• 2005: Getting ready for new restrictions on the disposal of “Wood”

Advantages

•Springfield MRF•Waste Management

Districts

Advantages

50,000 tons per year

275 tons per day

400 commercial accounts

The waste bans are an excellent tool

Communicate… between working face & scalehouse

Communicate…policies & procedures to all personnel

Communicate…expectations to customers

Communicate…problems in a timely manner

Communicate…economic impacts of violations

Structure fees, surcharges & fines to encourage source separation

Maintain a reputation for being strict, consistent & equitable

Provide cost-effective options for removing restricted materials from working face

Ban customers who will not follow the rules

Our Compliance Plan:

dot our I’scross our T’s

mind our P's&Q's

Results

Results

Results

Results

2005 Summary226 loads cited out of 992 failed

loads

• 1264 tires• 866 CRT’s• 96 propane tanks• 20 white goods• No other restricted materials

For Further Information

Karen BouquillonSolid Waste Management

SupervisorNorthampton DPW

413-587-1059kbouquillon@nohodpw.org

Future

• For the past fifteen years, the Northampton landfill has not accepted ABC, Metal or Wood Waste (as defined by DEP) for disposal, so the facility is already in compliance for these materials.

• In CY 2005, only 9% of the total tonnage disposed was classified as C&D (i.e., loads containing more than 10% wood by volume). Of this tonnage, nearly two-thirds was delivered by customers who will be unaffected by the new waste ban requirements.

• Maintain the $25/ton tip fee for “Clean Wood” and actively promote source separation of this material.

Clean Wood

Clean Wood

• Construct a receiving/transfer area near the working face for accepting “Non-Exempt C&D” materials. By the end of each operating day, recyclable materials will be removed for recycling, “Non-Exempt C&D” will be containerized for transfer to a processing facility, and other waste materials will be landfilled. Special permitting for this receiving/transfer area will not be required.

• Due to problems associated with hydrogen sulfide, the Northampton Landfill will not utilize C&D residuals or fines as daily cover, intermediate cover, or grading/shaping material.

(Excerpt from recent mailing to customers)

• “If you are thinking about delivering Non-Exempt C&D to the Northampton landfill after July 1st, it is important to understand that the standards for acceptable loads will

• be enforced, and the grace period for meeting these standards will not last for long. To

• meet these standards, it will be necessary to source-separate.”

(Excerpt from recent mailing to customers,

continued)

• As the deadline for implementation of the waste ban approaches, the source separation message deserves more attention from the DEP, C&D processing facilities, disposal facilities, waste haulers and generators.”