{"id":19103,"date":"2021-07-28T13:03:50","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T17:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/?post_type=article&p=19103"},"modified":"2024-06-14T16:54:52","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T20:54:52","slug":"west-virginia-2","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/es\/article\/composting-for-community\/west-virginia-2","title":{"rendered":"West Virginia \u2013 Composting Rules"},"template":"","class_list":["post-19103","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry","article_type-state-policy","initiatives-composting-for-community","topics-economic-development","topics-on-farm-composting","topics-permitting","impact_areas-climate-and-environmental-justice","impact_areas-food-security","authors-brenda-platt"],"acf":{"details":{"featured_image":"","background_color":"tan","article_type":[36],"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":[73,99,101],"impact_areas":[16,18],"abstract":"West Virginia addresses composting in a novel way: it categorizes acceptable farm and facility feedstock types more broadly than most states. Since 1997, it has been \u201cunlawful to deposit yard waste, including grass clippings and leaves, in a solid waste facility in West Virginia.\u201d This government imposed ban has helped establish a constant stream of diverted yard debris.","authors_tax":[601]},"sidebar":{"title":"\u00cdndice"},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"Since 1997, it has been \u201cunlawful to deposit yard waste, including grass clippings and leaves, in a solid waste facility in West Virginia.\u201d This government imposed ban has helped establish a constant stream of diverted yard debris. Interestingly, West Virginia addresses composting in a novel way: it categorizes acceptable farm and facility feedstock types more broadly than most states. West Virginia\u2019s Yard Waste Composting Rule (33CSR3)<\/a> lays out the state\u2019s composting policies.\r\n\r\nWest Virginia\u2019s composting rule applies to \u201cresidential and non-residential\u201d (including on-farm) composting facilities that are less than five acres and handle less than 12,000 tons annually, which are exempt from obtaining a commercial solid waste facility permit, so long as they adhere to location and operational standards. Although the rule specifically identifies yard trimmings, it also recognizes other materials including, but not limited to: pre-consumer and post-consumer food (kitchen scraps), coffee grounds, pet and human hair, shredded newspapers, lint and sweepings, wood ashes, fish and poultry carcasses\/litter, and animal manures. These or \u201cother acceptable compostable materials which have been approved in writing [\u2026] to produce a safe product for use as soil amendment\/conditioner\u201d are considered approved compostables.\r\n\r\n \r\n

Developing a Market for Compost<\/h3>\r\nWest Virginia\u2019s code also allows farmers sell their compost without restriction, unless they charge customers to accept food residuals, and then they must obtain permitting like that of commercial yard trimmings composting facilities. However, this does not apply if farmers ask for a \u201ccomposting fee\u201d to cover operational costs such as collecting materials and turning rows.\r\n\r\nWhat\u2019s more, West Virginia has sought to broaden\u00a0its scope of allowable materials for composting.\u00a0According to Steve Miller, Assistant Commissioner of the West Virginia Department of Agriculture, in 2012 the department was working on specifying livestock and wildlife carcasses as additional permitted materials.\u00a0By 2015, the West Virginian Legislature passed\u00a0an amendment to \u00a7 19-9-34<\/a> of the state code, which made it permissible to compost the carcasses of domestic animals in a rotary drum composter. This not only increases the range of materials allowed as compost feedstock, but also prevents the spread of disease through contaminated ground and surface water.\r\n\r\n \r\n

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