Intent:

Reduce the environmental footprint of material recovery facility and organics processing operations.

Requirements:

Demonstrate that organics recovering facility and processing operations meet the following targets:

• <[XX diesel gallon equivalent energy consumption per ton of product
• For [50% of rolling stock or [50% of total fuel consumption: Utilize low-sulfur diesel fuel; install catalytic and particulate pollution control devices and/or utilize the ISX12N engine from Cummins Westport or equivalent class of diesel engines
• For [50% of Processing Equipment:
  • Utilize electric equipment or use ultra-low-sulfur diesel fuel; install catalytic and particulate pollution control devices and/or
  • Utilize ILEV or ULEV diesel engines
• Limit onsite turnaround time to an average of 15 minutes
• Reduce VOC emissions from active composting phase by 80%
• Institute best practice dust control techniques

Covered activities include:

• Take measures to improve energy efficiency per ton of output (machines and buildings)
• Procure energy efficient or alternative fueled rolling stock (front-end loaders; forklifts; yard hustlers and other onsite hauling) vehicle emissions
• Procure low emission processing equipment with best available emissions control (e.g. windrow turning equip. + other)
• Minimize emissions from collection vehicle queuing through idling policies and minimizing facility turnaround time
• Implement interior and site-level dust & litter suppression
• Employ odor control technology as warranted
• Methane & other emissions control for composting
• ULEV engines count 2X ILEV engines