Solid Waste Management

2025-2026 Bill 5310: Solid Waste Management - South Carolina Legislature Online

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026
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H. 5310
STATUS INFORMATION
General Bill
Sponsors: Rep. Bustos
Document Path: LC-0451VR26.docx
Introduced in the House on March 4, 2026
Currently residing in the House Committee on
Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs
Summary: Solid Waste Management
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS

Date

Body

Action Description with journal page number

3/4/2026

House

Introduced and read first time (
House Journal-page 6
)

3/4/2026

House

Referred to Committee on
Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs
(
House Journal-page 6
)

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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL
03/04/2026

A bill

TO AMEND THE SOUTH
CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS BY ADDING SECTION
44-96-195
SO AS TO PROHIBIT LAND
APPLICATION OF SLUDGE AND THE SALE AND DISTRIBUTION OF COMPOST AND OTHER
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS AND MATERIALS CONTAINING SLUDGE AND SEPTAGE.

B
e it enacted by the
General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

S
ECTION 1.
A
rticle 1, Chapter 96, Title 44 of the S.C. Code is
amended by adding:

S
ection
44-96-195
.
(
A) Notwithstanding any
provision of law to the contrary, except as provided in subsection (B), a
person may not:

(
1)
apply to or spread on any land in the State:

(
a)
sludge generated from a municipal, commercial, or industrial wastewater
treatment plant;

(
b)
compost material that included in its production sludge generated from a
municipal, commercial, or industrial wastewater treatment plant or septage; or

(
c)
any other product or material that is intended for use as a fertilizer, soil
amendment, topsoil replacement, or mulch or for other similar agricultural
purpose that is derived from or contains sludge generated from a municipal,
commercial, or industrial wastewater treatment plant or septage; or

(
2)
sell or distribute in the State:

(
a)
compost material that included in its production sludge generated from a
municipal, commercial, or industrial wastewater treatment plant or septage; or

(
b)
any other product or material that is intended for use as a fertilizer, soil
amendment, topsoil replacement, or mulch or for other similar agricultural
purpose that is derived from or contains sludge generated from a municipal,
commercial, or industrial wastewater treatment plant or septage.

(
B)
The prohibitions in subsection (A) do not apply to:

(
1)
the disposal or placement at a solid waste landfill of any of the materials
that are prohibited from application, spreading, sale, or distribution by this
subsection;

(
2)
the land application of or the sale or distribution of compost material or
other agricultural product or material derived from or containing residuals
generated as a result of the processing or cultivation of food, food waste,
crops, or vegetative material, the brewing of malt liquor, the fermenting of
wine or hard cider, or the distilling of spirits including, but not limited to,
blueberries, apples, grapes, potatoes, seaweed, fish and seafood, and spent
grain or malt, provided that residuals are not mixed with sludge from a
municipal, commercial, or industrial wastewater treatment plant, septage,
sewage, or sanitary wastewater prior to or during land application or the
production of the compost material or other agricultural product or material;
or

(
3)
the land application of or the sale or distribution of compost material or
other agricultural product or material derived from or containing sludge
resulting from the production of precipitated calcium carbonate.

S
ECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval
by the Governor.

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