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Recommendation ORG 6 — Develop new products and technologies for organic residuals.

Research and develop best practices, additional products, and new technologies for organics recycling. Specific actions include:

• Develop and promote best practices for organics collection and processing.
• Quantify capacity and opportunity for adding municipal food waste to anaerobic digesters at wastewater treatment plants.
• Participate in and support sustainable bioenergy and biofuel research and development.
• Identify incentives that foster new technology and product development where by-products from one process become feedstocks for another.
• Fund research on the effect of organic materials (such as biosolids, biochar, and crop residues) on soil carbon sequestration, water holding capacity and other soil health indicators.
• Establish a process to quickly resolve regulatory oversight issues for developing technologies.

Milestone ORG B: Effective incentives for organics recycling are identified and pursued.

Milestone ORG F: Statutory and regulatory barriers to closed-loop organics recycling are addressed.

Milestone ORG G: A beneficial use hierarchy is created for residual organic material processing and uses.

Milestone ORG H: Soil carbon sequestration, using recycled organic materials, has increased based on research recommendations.

Milestone ORG I: Technical assistance, research, and/or capital expense funds support the development of at least two biomass-to-energy and biomass-to-fuel and co-products "organic refinery" projects.

Links and Resources

• Agricultural Recovery and Industrial Organics Research and Demonstration Products

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