What is a Wood Waste Landfill?
Pursuant to Section 43020.1 of the Public Resources Code (PRC), “Nonhazardous wood waste landfill” means a landfill that exclusively accepts untreated bark, sawdust, shavings, and chips that are the byproducts of primary wood product manufacturing and processes that are not used as raw material and that are destined for disposal. Examples of disposal sites which accept primarily solid waste from primarily wood product manufacturing but do not meet the definition of wood waste landfills include landfills with most categories of pulp mill wastes, codisposed municipal solid waste, significant levels of residual treatment or other chemicals, or ash from contaminated fuel sources. Solid wastes at a wood waste landfill include bark, scrap lumber, sawdust, and mixed soil and rock generated as waste material from log decks and milling facilities. Wood waste landfills may also accept minor amounts of inert construction and demolition wastes. Ash generated from the burning of wood wastes from on
