“It isn’t your grandmother’s backyard compost pile. In the new world of industrialized composting, garbage trucks and semis unload food scraps and yard waste in tipping buildings the size of aircraft hangars. Scooped up by front-end loaders, the material is ground and shaped into 450-ton heaps resembling colossal meatloaves, then covered with fabric and aerated […]
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Cedar Grove Composting Fined $119,000 for Failing to Control Odor at Everett Facility
July 18, 2011
Fine had been $169,000 but was reduced 50K. The Pollution Control Hearings Board has upheld a decision by the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency to fine the Cedar Grove Composting Company for failing to control odors from their Everett facility. I first wrote about this on April 22nd when the Mayor of Marysville and Chair […]
August 22, 2011
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