FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Green America Recycling receives final hazardous waste permit to continue operating
JEFFERSON CITY, MO, NOV. 26, 2019 - The Missouri Department of Natural Resources has issued a final hazardous waste permit to Green America Recycling, allowing the company to continue operating at its Hannibal facility.
Green America Recycling operates as a commercial hazardous waste storage and treatment facility at the site, located at 10107 Highway 79 in Hannibal. The facility name is Green America Recycling; however, the regulated activities are performed by both Continental Cement Co. LLC and Green America Recycling LLC. Continental Cement operates a dry process cement kiln and uses mainly pulverized coal to heat the kiln. To supplement its fuel needs, Continental Cement also uses non-hazardous waste fuels, such as used oil, and a variety of liquid and solid hazardous waste-derived fuels. Green America Recycling operates the hazardous waste fuels program at the permitted facility. Green America Recycling blends the liquid hazardous wastes with other hazardous waste and the resulting waste-derived fuels are stored in tanks until fed to the rotary kiln as liquid fuel.
Green America Recycling has been operating at the site under a department-issued Missouri Hazardous Waste Management Facility Part I Permit and EPA-issued Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments Part II Permit. On Oct.13, 2009, Green America Recycling submitted a permit application to the department and EPA to renew and update its existing hazardous waste permits. After a thorough technical review of the permit application and opportunity for public comment on a draft Part I Permit, the department made minor changes to the draft permit and issued a final Part I Permit. The final permit allows the company to continue storing and treating hazardous waste. EPA is still preparing a draft Part II Permit, which will have a separate public comment period and subsequent final decision date.
Any parties adversely affected or aggrieved by department’s decision to issue the final Part I Permit, or specific conditions of the final Part I Permit, may be entitled to pursue an appeal before the Administrative Hearing Commission by filing a written petition by Dec. 18.
The final Part I Permit, a summary and response to comments received on the draft Part I Permit, as well as additional information, are available on the department’s website at dnr.mo.gov/env/hwp/permits/notices.htm or at the Hannibal Free Public Library, 200 S. Fifth St., Hannibal. For more information about the final Part I Permit, or to obtain a written copy of the final Part I Permit for review, please contact Jillian Hunt, Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Waste Management Program, P.O. Box 176, Jefferson City, MO 65102-0176, by telephone at 573-751-6796 or 800-361-4827, or by email at jillian.hunt@dnr.mo.gov. Hearing- and speech-impaired individuals may reach Hunt through Relay Missouri at 800-735-2966.