Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 11 - Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality › Part 4 - Nonhazardous Solid Waste Management Regulations › Chapter 2 - Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality Regulations Regarding Evaluation Criteria for Local Solid Waste Management Plans › Rule 11-4-2.3 - Evaluation Criteria

Current through June 25, 2024
A. Understanding of
				the Solid Waste Management System
(1) Each
				plan must clearly demonstrate that it has accounted for residential,
				commercial, and industrial nonhazardous wastes, and any special wastes which
				may be a problem unique to that area.
(2) Each plan must clearly demonstrate that
				it has determined the composition of nonhazardous solid waste currently
				disposed in facilities receiving household solid waste.
(a) The composition of residential waste
				shall be determined by at least two sampling events conducted in the planning
				area, one representative of an incorporated area, and the other representative
				of the unincorporated area. Sampling events shall be repeated at least every
				five (5) years.
(b) Large
				quantities of industrial waste should be added into the overall waste
				composition.
(c) The composition of
				solid waste should be categorized into at least the following components:
(1) Cardboard/corrugated paper
(2) Newsprint
(3) Other paper
(4) Plastic
(5) Metals (ferrous, aluminum,
				etc.)
(6) Glass
(7) Wood/yard waste
(8) Food waste
(9) Textiles, other organics (rubber,
				leather, etc,)
(3)
(a)
				Each plan must clearly demonstrate that it has determined the quantity of
				nonhazardous solid waste currently generated in the planning area and
				transported into the planning area, including residential, commercial, and
				industrial wastes, and any special wastes which may be a problem unique to that
				area.
(b) The quantity must be
				determined by actual measurements or records of representative samples of solid
				wastes generated in the planning area and transported into the planning
				area.
(4) Each plan must
				clearly demonstrate that it has inventoried all existing facilities managing
				municipal solid waste, and that each facility has been generally described in
				terms of the type waste received, the operational history, the environmental
				suitability of the site, and the remaining available permitted capacity of each
				facility.
(a) At a minimum, the facilities
				inventoried must include all facilities authorized by the Mississippi
				Department of Environmental Quality, including public and private landfills,
				landfarms, and processing facilities.
(b) For any existing facilities receiving
				household solid waste which plan to discontinue operations before October 9,
				1993,
(1) the environmental suitability may be
				generally addressed by declaring the facility unsuitable for long-term use,
				and
(2) the operational history may
				be generally addressed in terms of length of operations and types of wastes
				received.
(c) For any
				existing facilities receiving household solid waste which plan to continue
				operations after October 9, 1993, or which may be later evaluated for long-term
				use,
(1) the environmental suitability should
				be generally addressed with a discussion of those features and characteristics
				which make it favorable for long-term use, and
(2) the operational history should be
				generally addressed in terms of length of operations, types of waste received,
				and past enforcement actions taken against the facility.
(d) For any existing facilities receiving
				wastes other than household solid wastes, the plan should determine the
				long-term plans of the facility and its role in helping to meet the solid waste
				needs of the planning area.
(5) Each plan must clearly demonstrate that
				solid waste collection services are provided for all areas within the
				plan.
(6) Each plan must
				demonstrate the commitment of the county or planning authority to identifying
				and cleaning up all known open dumps within the planning area through the
				utilization of local enforcement authority.
(7) Each plan must describe its proposed
				system for waste tire management within the planning area. A clear
				understanding of the extent of the waste tire problem in the area shall be
				demonstrated by an estimation of the quantity of waste tires generated in the
				planning area and an inventory of waste tire collection sites or dumps in the
				area. The plan must contain an implementation schedule for starting up its
				proposed system.