Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><P><SPAN>Composting facilities are divided into “tiers,” based on the feedstock types. Tier 2 is further divided into Tier 2-Large and Tier 2-Small, based on the amount of finished compost the facility produces per year. All Tier 1, Tier 2 – Small, and Tier 2 – Large facilities require a CF Permit unless covered under one of the exemptions laid out in the Composting Facility Regulations at COMAR 26.04.11.05 and .06. For more information regarding composting facilities and the Tier levels, please visit https://mde.maryland.gov/programs/land/Documents/Composting%20Facility%20Permitting%20Guidance.pdf</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
Copyright Text: Maryland Department of the Environment, Land and Material Administration, Resource Management Program
Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>This map service provides information about and the location of the commercial anaerobic digester facility in Maryland.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Anaerobic digestion is a process through which bacteria break down organic matter—such as animal manure, wastewater biosolids, and food wastes—in the absence of oxygen. Anaerobic digestion for biogas production takes place in a sealed vessel called a reactor, which is designed and constructed in various shapes and sizes specific to the site and feedstock conditions. These reactors contain complex microbial communities that break down (or digest) the waste and produce resultant biogas and digestate (the solid and liquid material end-products of the AD process) which is discharged from the digester.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Multiple organic materials can be combined in one digester, a practice called co-digestion. Co-digested materials include manure; food waste (i.e., processing, distribution and consumer generated materials); energy crops; crop residues; and fats, oils, and greases (FOG) from restaurant grease traps, and many other sources. Co-digestion can increase biogas production from low-yielding or difficult-to-digest organic waste.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>For more information regarding the commercial anaerobic digester, please contact MDE/LMA.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
Copyright Text: Maryland Department of the Environment, Land and Material Administration, Resource Management Program
Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>Per the Code of Maryland Regulations, Per 9-1724.1, entities that generate food residuals of 1 ton a week or more, meet the definition of a "person" (9-1701), and are within 30 miles of an organics recycling facility that has the willingness and capacity to process all food residuals must divert.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN /></P><P><SPAN>Organics recycling facilities (9-1701) may include composting (permitted and non-permitted), anaerobic digestion and other facilities in which organic materials or compostable packaging materials are collected, separated, or processed and returned to the marketplace in the form of raw materials or products.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN /></P><P><SPAN>This map service is of the food composting facilities in neighboring states that are within 30 miles of the boarder with Maryland. These facilities fall under the same guidelines as those in Maryland.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
Copyright Text: Maryland Department of the Environment, Land and Materials Administration, Resource Management Program
Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>Per the Code of Maryland Regulations, Per 9-1724.1, entities that generate food residuals of 1 ton a week or more, meet the definition of a "person" (9-1701), and are within 30 miles of an organics recycling facility that has the willingness and capacity to process all food residuals must divert.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Organics recycling facilities (9-1701) may include composting (permitted and non-permitted), anaerobic digestion and other facilities in which organic materials or compostable packaging materials are collected, separated, or processed and returned to the marketplace in the form of raw materials or products.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>This map service is of the 30 mile radius/buffer of food composting facilities within Maryland.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
Copyright Text: Maryland Department of the Environment, Land and Materials Administration, Resource Management Program
Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>Per the Code of Maryland Regulations, Per 9-1724.1, entities that generate food residuals of 1 ton a week or more, meet the definition of a "person" (9-1701), and are within 30 miles of an organics recycling facility that has the willingness and capacity to process all food residuals must divert.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Organics recycling facilities (9-1701) may include composting (permitted and non-permitted), anaerobic digestion and other facilities in which organic materials or compostable packaging materials are collected, separated, or processed and returned to the marketplace in the form of raw materials or products.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>This map service is of the 30 mile radius/buffer of food composting facilities in neighboring states that are within 30 miles of the boarder with Maryland. These facilities fall under the same guidelines as those in Maryland.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
Copyright Text: Maryland Department of the Environment, Land and Materials Administration, Resource Management Program