Composting Facilities Across the United States NatureWorks™ PLA certified by BPI as compostable. Composting is a new method of recovery for biopolymers like NatureWorks™ PLA, which are used to produce everyday packaging and plastic consumer items. Derived from annually renewable resources found in natural plant sugars, NatureWorks PLA offers a more sustainable solution. Global regulatory guidelines and standards for composting revolve around four basic criteria: material characteristics, biodegradation, disintegration and ecotoxicity (compost quality). In the United States, all required testing data for NatureWorks PLA was independently reviewed by the Biodegradable Products Institute (BPI) for certification according to ASTM 6400-99. NatureWorks PLA received listing on the BPI positive list for compostable materials. End products made
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with NatureWorks PLA will compost in municipal/ industrial facilities according to ISO, CEN, ASTM, BPI and DIN regulations. On the following pages is a select list of industrial or municipal composting facilities in the United States. NatureWorks PLA has been successfully composted at some of these facilities. Contact your local facility operator to set up a program to collect and compost your PLA stream. Feel free to contact Cargill Dow for technical assistance with NatureWorks PLA. For more information about NatureWorks PLA and its disposal options, please visit our Web site at www.natureworkspla.com, or call (877) 423-7659.
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California, Oregon and Washington Composting Facilities Across the United States City 152
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Washington 151
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Oregon
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California
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California 1 Gilroy 2 Lamont 3 Milpitas 4 Modesto 5 Thermal 6 Vacaville 7 Victorville 8 Modesto 9 Oxnard 10 Folsom 11 Lost Hills 12 Covelo 13 Fairfield 14 Richmond 15 San Diego 16 Spreckels 17 Tulare 18 Avenal
Z-Best Composting Community Recycling BFI Organics Grover Landscaping California Biomass Jepson Prairie Compost Facility California Biomass Gilton Resource Center Shoreline Organics City of Folsom San Joaquin Composting Cold Creek Composting Facility Potrero Hills Landfill West Contra Costa County Landfill Miramar Landfill Cranford Inc. Tulare County Compost Kochergan Farms
Oregon 104 Arlington 105 Cornelius 106 North Plains 107 Hood River 108 Eugene
Columbia Ridge Composting/ Waste Management NW Environmental & Recycling East County Recycling/Nature’s Needs Columbia Ridge Organic Fruit Composting Rexius Forest Byproducts
Washington 145 Burbank 146 Colbert 147 Pullman 148 Puyallup 149 Seattle 150 Puyallup 151 Walla Walla
Soil Life Systems Spokane Regional Compost Facility WSU/Pullman Compost Facility Compost Factory Cedar Grove Composting Co. (Maple Grove) Land Recovery Department of Corrections
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7 5 15
Maine Composting Facilities Across the United States
Maine 61 67
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46 52
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60 56
64 62 63 53 58 48 50
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Jonesport Eliot Gouldsboro Penobscot Scarborough Southwest Harbor Arundel Addison Southwest Harbor Yarmouth Machias Unity Rockland Washington Gorham Thorndike Rockport Dexter Harpswell Portland West Bath Lyman Newcastle Bangor Steven Russell
Arnold Pearlman Bartlett Farm Services Duerr Bros. Landscaping King Farm Commercial Recycling Systems Doug Gott & Sons Dubois Livestock Elliott Batson EMR Inc Glowood Farm Guptill & Huntley Hawk Ridge Interstate Septic Systems J&L Compost Kay-Ben Farm Know Ridge Holstein Farm Land & Sea Composting Mid Maine Solid Waste Assoc. Paul Prosser Regional Waste Systems Rid St. Onge Farm Straws Farm Univ. Of Maine Winslow
Texas Composting Facilities Across the United States
121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129
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Facility
Austin Big Spring Conroe Ft.Worth Plano San Antonio Wichita Falls Austin Austin
Texas Organics Products City of Big Spring Nature’s Way Resources Silver Creek Materials City of Plano Solid Waste Gardenville Fertilizer Co. City of Wichita Falls Living Earth Technology J-V Dirt
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Texas 121 128 129 126
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Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin Composting Facilities Across the United States
Iowa 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29
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Minnesota 153
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71 70
Wisconsin
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Cedar Rapids Eddyville Ida Grove Ida Grove Odebolt Swisher Fort Madison Fairfield
Blue Stem Solid Waste Authority Chamness Tech. Conover’s Vermicomposting Krager’s Vermicomposting Drakes Vermicomposting D&D Ranch Lee County/Great River Regional Maharishi School
69 74
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154 26
25 22
Iowa
27 23
29 28
Minnesota 69 Mankato 70 Hutchinson 71 St. Paul 72 Duluth 73 74 75 76
Benson Truman Cold Spring
Wisconsin 153 Rhinelander 154 Bristol
Southern Minn. Compost City of Hutchinson SKB Environmental Howard Waste/ Western Lake Superior Sanitation Swift County Recycling Center PrairieLand MSW Composting Facility Lake of the Woods Mississippi Topsoils
Oneida County SWD Pheasant Run
New Jersey, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania Composting Facilities Across the United States City
Facility
New Jersey 93 Wrightstown
Woodhue
New York 94 Millerton 95 Albany 96 Gansevoort 97 Springfield 98 Chenango 99 Nedrow 100 Oswego 101 Clarence
McEnroe Organic Farm Capital Compost Casella Waste Mgt. CTI Agri-Cycle Long Acre Farms Toad Hollow Farms Oswego County DSW Kreher’s Poultry Farms
Ohio 102 103
Barnes Nursery Garick Corporation (Paygro)
Huron S. Charleston
Pennsylvania 108 Tremont 109 Washington Cty
Natural Soil Products AgRecycle
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95 99 101
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New York
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New Jersey Pennsylvania
102 109
Ohio 103
108 93
New Hampshire & Vermont Composting Facilities Across the United States City Vermont 130 Arlington 131 Burlington 132 Craftsbury 133 Lyndonville
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142 141 134 136
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Vermont
143 89 139 138 140
New Hampshire 88
90 130
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Middlebury Middlebury Middlebury Montpelier Rutland Rutland Rutland Vergennes East Hartwick Middlebury Johnson
New Hampshire 88 Fremont 89 Hanover 90 91 92
Keene Nashua Peterborough
Facility Fierce Bad Rabbit Farm Intervale Foundation The Highfields Institute, Ltd. Northeast Kingdom Waste Management District Addison County Solid Waste District Middlebury College Vermont Natural Ag. Products, Inc. Vermont Compost Company Maple Sugar Farm/Rutland SWA Casella (Waste U.S.A.) Coventry Landfill Rutland Solid Waste District Rainbow Acres Greenhouse Delarichilliere Farms Vermont Natural Ag. Johnson State College
Sea Coast Farms Compost New England Organics (Casella Waste Systems) Keene Transfer Station (City of Keene) PK’s Nursery & Nature’s Soil Town of Peterborough
Connecticut & Massachusetts Composting Facilities Across the United States
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Massachusetts 36
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33 43
38 42 41
34 37 31
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Connecticut 19
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Facility
Connecticut 19 New Milford
New Milford Farms
Massachusetts 30 Dalton 31 Forestdale 32 Greenfield 33 Hampden 34 Marlbough 35 Nantucket 36 Northhampton 37 Plymouth 38 Tauton 39 Bolton 40 Hamilton 41 Wrentham 42 Plainville 43 Springfield
Holiday Farms Watts Family Farm Martins Farm Scenic Valley Farm Bedminster/Marlborough Waste Options Smith Vocational School Farm Plymouth Reprocessing Recycle Away Group Agracomp Brick Ends Farm Groundscapes Express Lorusso Compost Site Cover Technologies
Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee Composting Facilities Across the United States City
Facility
Georgia 20 Athens 21 Atlanta
Creative Earth East Lake Farm
North 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87
Mountain Organic Materials Brooks Contractor McGill Environmental Systems East Coast Compost UNC Charlotte UNC Greensboro Rondeli Recycling Appalachia State Univ. Caledonia CI Sampson CI Brown Creek CI
85 113 117118 115 114
119 120
116
112
111 77 80
Tennessee
North Carolina
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78 81
87
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20 21
Georgia
South Carolina
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86 79
Carolina Candler Goldston Rose Hill Fairview Charlotte Greensboro Princeton Tillery Clinton Polkton
South Carolina 110 Rock Hill Tennessee 111 Sevierville 112 Blountville 113 Nashville 114 Franklin 115 Nashville 116 Treadway 117 Nashville 118 Gallatin 119 120
Powell Knoxville
City of Rock Hill
Sevier Solid Waste Inc. Superior Mulch LLC The Mulch Co. Franklin County Queens Tree Surg. Compost Cooperidge Wood Products Davidson Co. Compost Facility Sumner County Res Auth/ Rasco Composting (2 sites) Hines Fine Soils Knoxville Solid Waste Authority
