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The amount of hazardous waste you generate will dictate your waste generator status.
When food spoils or is thrown away before we eat it, the resources that went into creating the food are wasted.
Disposing of wastes from a natural disaster or large fire
Approximately $4.5 million was available to support prevention of wasted food and food rescue projects across the state.
The MPCA had at least $1 million to support projects that will build lasting capacity to preserve standing tree stock and manage increasing volumes of wood waste.
The MPCA has withdrawn proposed rules relating to waste treated seeds.
The wood waste hierarchy outlines wood waste disposal methods in order of most preferable to least preferable.
Documents and forms related to the identification and management of hazardous waste in Minnesota.
The MPCA is seeking public comment on a proposed increase in the amount and types of waste that Curbside Waste Inc. processes at its transfer station facility in Dayton.
The MPCA offered approximately $12.5 million in grant funding for projects that will prevent wasted food from being generated, prevent food from going to waste, or projects that rescue edible food from disposal and redirect it for human consumption in Minnesota.
CAP provides financial and technical assistance to local governments to encourage investment in the proper management of solid waste.
The MPCA amended Minnesota Rules relating to the grant application process for the solid waste management capital assistance program.
MPCA wastewater staff assigned by county.
The MPCA is planning a new rule governing waste, adopting new rules to implement and govern regulation of the Packaging Waste and Cost Reduction Act.
ECSWC is applying for a 10-year permit to add MSW capacity to its currently permitted landfill near Mora while conducting environmental review for the unpermitted areas of its landfill expansion.
KODA Energy violated its air permit in Scott County from June 2023 to February 2024, according to a Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) enforcement investigation. The investigation found KODA energy was burning waste-treated corn and should have submitted a major permit amendment before burning an industrial solid as a waste-to-energy incineration facility.
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The MPCA is working on both short and long-term solutions to the growing waste problems in the Twin Cities metropolitan area.
Minnesota GreenCorps member Heidi Blum focused on waste reduction and recycling in Edina, Minnesota.
To prevent food waste at its veterans homes, the Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs used a $185,000 MPCA grant to purchase new meal-ordering technology.