{"id":17638,"date":"2021-06-22T17:51:41","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T21:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/articles\/4-new-maryland-laws-to-spur-local-composting\/"},"modified":"2024-08-05T11:58:25","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T15:58:25","slug":"new-maryland-composting-policies","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/es\/article\/composting-for-community\/new-maryland-composting-policies","title":{"rendered":"Cuatro nuevas leyes en Maryland para impulsar el compostaje local"},"template":"","class_list":["post-17638","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_type-article","initiatives-composting-for-community","topics-community-composting","topics-zero-waste","impact_areas-climate-and-environmental-justice","impact_areas-resilient-cities-and-metros","authors-brenda-platt","authors-jade-boehmer","authors-sophia-jones"],"acf":{"details":{"featured_image":2121,"background_color":"tan","article_type":[134],"initiative":15,"display_event_fields":false,"start_date":null,"end_date":null,"start_time":null,"end_time":null,"time_zone":"America\/New_York","virtual_event":false,"location":"","topics":[42,121],"impact_areas":[16,22],"abstract":"

ILSR has actively worked with state officials and legislators for years to move Maryland forward on composting wasted food and other organics. Now, four new bills recently became law that will further advance composting in Maryland.… Read More<\/a><\/p>\r\n","authors_tax":[601,629,651]},"sidebar":{"title":"\u00cdndice"},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"

<\/div>\r\nILSR has actively worked with state officials and legislators for years to move Maryland forward on composting wasted food and other organics. Our aim: new capacity to compost food scraps that benefits local farmers and communities. We want Maryland to develop a <\/span>healthy diverse and distributed composting infrastructure<\/span><\/a> that encompasses composting at homes, onsite at institutions and businesses, community gardens, and at urban and rural farms. Too often, far-away large-scale industrial sites get privileged in both funding and policy. Such facilities can siphon business and jobs out of state, exacerbate truck traffic, and shift the market away from clean segregated materials to programs that inadvertently facilitate contamination and poor-quality compost. (See <\/span>Failure of the Wilmington Compost Facility Underscores Need for a Locally Based and Diverse Composting Infrastructure<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>Stop Privileging Large Industrial Sites Over Local Composters \u2014 Building Local Power Podcast<\/span><\/a>.)<\/span>\r\n\r\nProgress has been slow but steady. We pushed the state to improve its composting regulations, policies, and outreach in 2011 (<\/span>HB0817<\/span><\/a>); require Maryland Department of the Environment to adopt compost facility regulations in 2013 (<\/span>HB1440<\/span><\/a>); require the State Highway Administration to procure compost and compost-based products in 2014 (<\/span>HB0878<\/span><\/a>); publish new composting permits in COMAR with carve-outs for on-farm composting in 2015<\/span>; and to set standards for which plastic products can be labeled as compostable or biodegradable in 2017 (<\/span>HB1349<\/span><\/a> \/ <\/span>ILSR press release<\/span><\/a>). Now, four new bills recently became law that will further advance composting in Maryland:<\/span>\r\n