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“We Build Healthy Soil”
Special Lunch Meeting/Workshop on
Proposed Green Waste Process Air Pollution Rules
Affecting South Coast & San Joaquin Operations
Thursday. December 2, 2010, @ IEUA
Inland Empire Utilities Agency: 6075 Kimball Ave., Chino, CA 91710,
909-993-1600
11:00 am - 1:30 pm
Includes Hosted Lunch - by ACP Members
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Agenda
• 11 am - 12 noon: Presentations
– Current Status of rules development including
CEQA and Socio-Economic Assessments (Air
District & Industry Representatives)
• 12-12:20 PM : Break to pick up lunches
• 12:30 - 1:30 PM: Working lunch to discuss
– Organics Industry Sector Impacts
– Next Organizing Steps Discussion
– Action Plan
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What & Who is ACP?
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A Public/Private Association - 501(C)3 - of:
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Public and Private Organics Residual Generators
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Green Waste, Food Waste
Manure, Biosolids
Public and Private Compost Producers
Public and Private Compost Marketer/Distributors
Our Vision:
Supporting beneficial reuse of organics in California, with
compost playing a central role to build and maintain
sustainable healthy soils, keeping our
state’s lands productive, green and biologically diverse
for generations to come.
Our Mission:
Dedicated to increasing the quality, value and amount
of compost being used in California. We do this by
promoting activities and regulations that build healthy
soil, benefiting people and protecting air, water and
soil.
ACP members work and invest together to increase
compost markets and improve compost product &
manufacturing standards. The association provides
education & communication on compost benefits &
proper use through support of scientific research &
legislation aligned with developing and expanding
quality compost markets.
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Burrtec
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Carbon Solutions Group
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City of Santa Rosa
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County of San Bernardino
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Engel and Gray
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Garick Corporation (a Waste
Management Company)
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Green N2 Green
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Harvest Power
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Inland Empire Utilities Agency
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Kellogg Garden Products
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Los Angeles County Sanitation
Districts
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P.F. Ryan and Associates
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Rainbow Disposal
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Serrano Creek Soil Amendments
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South Orange County Wastewater
Authority
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Synagro
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University of California, Cooperative
Extension
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Vision Recycling
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Air District & Industry
Representatives:
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South Coast Air Board: on PR 1133.3 - Green Waste Air Pollution Control
Rules (affecting South Coast composters) –
– Tracy Goss, Program Supervisor, PM Strategies, South Coast Air Quality
Management District.
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San Joaquin Air Board: on PR 4566 - Green Waste Air Pollution Control
Rules (affecting San Joaquin Valley composters and chip & grind operations
– Errol Villegas, Program Manager - Strategies & Incentives Department, San
Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District
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PR 4566 Compost Industry Working Group:
– Matt Cotton, past President of the US Composting Council, and respected
compost consultant, with Integrated Waste Management Consulting, will give
some background and be available for our discussion.
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CalRecycle:
– Robert Horowitz, Integrated Waste Management Specialist, Statewide
Technical and Analytical Resources Division, who has been engaged in the PR
4566 and 1133 processes, will also present and be available for our discussion
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Organics Industry Sector
Impacts
• Next Organizing Steps Discussion
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Consistent material identification & process definitions
Composters Impacts
Chip & Grind Facility Impacts
Haulers, MRF's, Landfill Impacts
• Action Plan
– Establish an Industry Working Group
– Develop letter from ACP and/or Working Group
– Set up meetings with Governing Board Members to
discuss impact of rules.
– ACP request meetings with Air District's staffs
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Organics = Renewable Carbon
Management
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Manure (cows, chicken, pig,
other?)
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Green Residuals/ ByProducts (Waste?)
– Landscape (urban forest)
– Agriculture (food shed)
– Natural Environment
(watersheds)
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Food Residuals/ By-Products
(Waste?)
– Plant food
– Soiled paper
– Meat
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• Feedstock Agnostics
• Product and Process
Quality Chauvinists
Biosolids (processed
municipal sewage sludge)
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Organic Carbon & Soil Organisms
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Compost Contains ~50%
Organic Matter by Weight
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Organic Matter is made of
Carbon Compounds so it:
– Provides food (energy) to
the soil organisms
– Provides tilth for water
infiltration, holding and
oxygen penetration
– Sequesters carbon
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Must keep adding to the soil
as it is eaten (decomposed)
by the soil organisms
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Also it provides Organic
Nutrients (“NPK”, i.e.
nitrogen, phosphorous and
potassium)
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COMPOST: From Dead Dirt, to Living Soil
Main Applications
– Landscape
– Agriculture
– Erosion Control and
Restoration
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Specifications are Key
– User Driven
Specifications
– Landscape Specifications
(Manual)
– Compost Use Index
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Main Compost Applications/Markets
Landscape
Agriculture
Erosion Control and Watershed Restoration
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The Organics Value Cycle
Haul, Pre-process:
Communicate
& Report
Communicate
& Report
Process:
Generate:
•Landscape trimmings
•Food/Ag waste
•Biosolids
•Manure
Communicate
& Report
Gov. Agencies
• EPA
air, water, solids
• LEA
• Planning
• CDFA
• CEC/PUC, etc., etc.
Use:
•Landscape
•Agriculture
•Environmental
•Bioenergy
Communicate (Sell!)
& Report
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•Compost
•Chip and Grind
•Anaerobic Digestion
•Fertilizer
•Energy (gas, electric)
Communicate
& Report
Market:
•Compost
•Fertilizer
•Energy
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Nested Resource Cycles
Commercial
Residential
Indu
stry
Tier 3: Between Communities – “Government to
Wholesale Markets ”
Tier 2: Community, Municipality, Agency –
Wholesale - Retail “Markets”
Tier 1: Residential, On-site/Facility - “Onsite Market”
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No one niche is “right,” correct or “the best.”
Sanitation (water & solids) agencies are typically involved in all at the same time.
Solids & Water Market Development Strategies and Tactics must work
synergistically to build resource value and system efficiency (esp. w/ energy!!).
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This is still a goal to which all our communities are actively working
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Questions?
Comments?
Discussion…
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Dan Noble, Executive Director
Bus: (619) 303-3694
Cell: (619) 992-8389
Skype: dan.noble
[email protected]
www.healthysoil.org
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How Specific Players Will Benefit
• Use as a regulatory reporting tool
• Access lowest collection & tipping fees
• Generator
• Access more customer accounts
• Reporting tool
• Access lowest tipping fees
• Hauler
• Preprocessor
(chip & grinder)
• Access quality organics sources
• Reporting tool
• Access best & transport tipping fees
• Improve product quality and price
• Composter
• Regulator
• Supplier
• Energy
Recovery
• Access/communicate with regulated community
• Reporting tool, regulation
• Marketer
• End-user
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• Access more customers
• Get the best prices
• Access right material
• Learning tool
• Access best prices
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Data Use
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Generators need to determine “tipping fees”, hauler
relationships and “disposal options”, and waste
reporting and permitting.
Haulers need to determine “tipping fee”, and
whether they can make money off the sale, or
should they get in the processing business?
Processor-Producers use it for market
development and monitoring (of feedstock and
finished products)
Marketer & Users (customers) Use it to source,
sell and deliver quality material
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Agriculture and landscape carbon
Agriculture and landscape nutrients
Bioenergy
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“We Build Healthy Soil”