New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 17 - TREASURY - GENERAL › Chapter 30 - PERSONAL USE CANNABIS RULES › Subchapter 9 - CANNABIS BUSINESS LICENSE HOLDER MATERIAL CONDITIONS AND REQUIREMENTS › Section 17:30-9.14 - Destruction or disposal of cannabis waste and hazardous waste; expiration of license procedures

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
(a) A
				license holder shall manage non-hazardous unusable cannabis, cannabis waste, or
				cannabis items, including returned, recalled, or usable cannabis or cannabis
				products that have expired, by either: destroying the material through
				incineration; or rendering the material unrecoverable, unrecognizable, and
				useless for diversion, and then disposing of the material by either
				transporting it off-site as compost or solid waste or composting it on-site.
1. If a license holder chooses to destroy the
				material by incineration, it shall ensure the material is transported in
				accordance with (a)3 below, to a New Jersey Department of Environmental
				Protection-authorized incinerator and is actually incinerated.
2. If a license holder chooses to dispose of
				the material as solid waste or compost, the license holder:
i. In a secured, locked area on the cannabis
				business premises that is visible to a security camera, shall render the
				material irrecoverable, unrecognizable, and useless for diversion, by:
(1) Finely shredding or grinding the cannabis
				or cannabis waste; and
(2) Mixing
				the shredded or ground cannabis waste with safe, non-toxic, biodegradable
				material, such as soil , cat litter, or compostable material, so the resulting
				mixture is at least 50 percent non-cannabis waste by volume;
ii. Shall store the mixed cannabis
				waste in a secure, locked container or space until it can be disposed; such
				container may be outside the facility, provided it is within view of a security
				camera; and
iii. Shall dispose of
				such mixed cannabis waste by:
(1) Ensuring the
				material is transported in accordance with (a)3 below, to a solid waste
				disposal facility holding the applicable solid waste permit from the New Jersey
				Department of Environmental Protection and is disposed of; or
(2) Composting it on-site, in a secure,
				locked container or space, as approved by the Commission, or at a facility
				owned by the cannabis business and operated in compliance with all applicable
				New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection statutes and rules, provided
				all materials in the mixture are compostable materials , or by transporting the
				compost to a facility authorized by the Department of Environmental Protection
				to compost off site.
3. For the transportation of non-hazardous
				solid waste that is unusable cannabis, cannabis waste, or cannabis items to a
				facility for destruction or disposal, a license holder shall either register as
				a Self Generator Solid Waste Transporter to transport the waste itself, in
				accordance with
				N.J.A.C.
				7:26-3.2(a)  and 16.3, or
				use standard solid waste collection and contract with a vendor-contractor that
				is a licensed and registered Commercial (A901) Solid Waste Transporter, in
				accordance with N.J.S.A. 13:1E-126 et seq., to transport the mixed cannabis
				waste on its behalf.
4. The license
				holder and any person transporting, destroying, or disposing of the mixed
				cannabis waste shall comply with
				N.J.A.C.
				7:26-2, 2B, and 3 and the county or district
				Solid Waste Management Plan for the county or district in which the premises
				are located, in accordance with
				N.J.A.C.
				7:26-6.
5. An electronic smoking device shall not be
				incinerated or rendered unrecoverable, unrecognizable, and useless for
				diversion. All vaporized formulation shall be removed from the device. The
				electronic smoking device:
i. If it is an
				"all-in-one" e-cigarette that includes a battery that is not removable, shall
				be treated as hazardous waste (code D003) in accordance with (b) below and
				40 CFR
				262 et seq.; or
ii. If it is a multi-part device and can be
				split into a removable rechargeable battery and another cartridge piece not
				containing a battery, the battery may be disposed of as universal waste and
				sent for recycling, in accordance with
				40 CFR
				273 et seq., and the remaining cartridge may
				be disposed of as solid waste in accordance with N.J.A.C. 7:26.