Frederick County

Frederick County, Maryland operates an integrated solid waste management system that manages over 175,000 tons of solid waste annually within the county, with operations that include single stream recycling, organics composting, solid waste transfer, and disposal facilities. Over the past 15 years the State of Maryland has enacted a series of legislative goals that systematically raise requirements to increase recycling, energy recovery, and diversion of waste from landfilling. The State's Zero Waste Plan targets incremental increases in waste diversion and recycling from 35% to over 80% by 2040. The target for organics diversion rises to 90% over this period. The county currently achieves an overall waste diversion rate of over 50%; however, in an effort to stay ahead of State requirements, they retained Geosyntec to support their efforts to identify and review potential options for increasing recycling and waste diversion rates over both the near- and long-term horizons.

Frederick County, Maryland operates an integrated solid waste management system that manages over 175,000 tons of solid waste annually. Although the county achieved an overall waste diversion rate of over 50% by 2014, they retained Geosyntec to support their efforts to identify and review potential options for increasing recycling and waste diversion over both the near- and long-term horizons.