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by Larry Nagengast September 26th, 2014 The possible shutdown of Peninsula Compost’s Wilmington Organic Recycling Center prompts a question that should concern Delawareans who have yet to catch a whiff of the facility’s odors. If the facility in Wilmington’s Southbridge community is closed, where do all the composting materials go? Would the odor be moved from Southbridge to a location where it would impact a different group of residents? “Yes and no,” says Bill Miller, environmental program manager in DNREC’s Solid and Hazardous Waste Management Section, which oversees the facility. Peninsula’s current license allows it to process up to 120,000 tons of food waste and 40,000 tons of yard waste a year. A small amount would go to other composting facilities, Miller says. There are two other commercial composting sites in…