Dive summary:

• The Maryland Department of the Environment are requiring owners of apartment buildings or condominiums that have 10 or more units to provide recycling to their tenants.
• The law won’t go into effect until Oct. 1, 2014, but the state is sending out warnings now to ensure building owners have enough time to put everything into place.
• The legislature still has to review the final language of the bill while the public will also have an opportunity to comment before it goes into effect.

From the article:

Garrett County will need to adopt an amendment to its 10-year plan in order to comply with the legislation. An opportunity for public comment will be provided sometime before the bill’s effective date. The language for the amendment still needs to be drafted and MDE will have to approve the language before it can be adopted, according to Dave Baker, manager of the Department of Solid Waste and Recycling.

The bill also provides for enforcement of the law. Each county can address how it will handle violations as part of the language adopted into the 10-year plan. ...