A permit is required by all landfill operations, waste transfer stations, tire recycling facilities, lakefill operations, metal recycling facilities, in short, for those facilities whose operations includes the storage, disposal or incineration of solid waste. DERM permits are required in addition to any federal or state permits.
Transfer Stations
The Miami-Dade County Department of Environmental Resources Management (DERM) and Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) regulate transfer station operations. These facilities usually accept waste materials and store them for a short period of time before they are transported to a processing or disposal facility.
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Biohazardous Transfer
Biohazardous waste transfer operations are regulated by the Miami-Dade County Department of Environmental Resources Management (DERM). These are facilities accepting or collecting biomedical waste and storing for a short period of time before it is transported to a processing or disposal facility.
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Mulching & Composting
The Miami-Dade County Department of Environmental Resources Management (DERM) and Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) regulate mulching and composting operations. Mulching operations process yard trash and clean wood into useable materials using mechanical means while composting operations rely on biological decomposition to produce an environmentally acceptable material potentially beneficial to plant growth.
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Construction and Demolition (C & D) Recycling Facilities
The Miami-Dade County Department of Environmental Resources Management (DERM) and Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) regulate C & D recycling operations. These facilities are also called material recycling facilities and they accept construction and demolition debris and separate or extract materials that are suitable for reuse or recycling.
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Metal Recyclers
Facilities accepting scrap metal, such as junk automobiles, and processing using mechanical grinding and/or shredding. These facilities must operate according to the regulations for the operations of metal recycling facilities in Section 24-12.4 of the Miami-Dade County Environmental Protection Ordinance.
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Tire Storage & Processing
The Miami-Dade County Department of Environmental Resources Management (DERM) and Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) regulate tire storage and processing operations. Tire storage operations are limited to the collection of waste tires before being offered for recycling or disposal. Processing operations recapture reusable byproducts from waste tires or cut, burn, or alter them so that they are no longer whole.
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Construction & Demolition Debris Disposal
The Miami-Dade County Department of Environmental Resources Management (DERM) and Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) regulate construction and demolition debris disposal operations. These operations include the disposal of discarded materials from construction or destruction of structures as part of construction or demolition projects.
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Lake Fills
Lake filling operations are regulated by the Miami-Dade County Department of Environmental Resources Management (DERM) and include permitted and non-permitted operations. Permitted operations are limited to lake filling with clean fill as defined in Chapter 24-3(120), Code of Miami-Dade County, Florida (soil, rock, sand, earth, marl, clay, stone and/or concrete rubble (concrete with no protruding steel). Non-permitted operations are limited to lake filling with NATURALLY OCCURING materials that are extracted as a result of rockmining operation, as defined in Section 24-3 (92), Miami-Dade County Environmental Protection Ordinance, certified by the Miami-Dade County Building Code Compliance Office as a Stone and Aggregate Plant.
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Class I, II, and III Landfills
The Miami-Dade County Department of Environmental Resources Management (DERM) and Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) regulate Class I, II, and III landfills
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