CRRA2019

Environmental Scientist

Martine Boswell is an Environmental Scientist in CalRecycle’s Statewide Technical and Analytical Resources Branch. She serves as CalRecycle’s technical advisor on food waste, and provides scientific analyses on California’s food system and climate change. Martine is also highly engaged in statewide efforts to increase safe surplus food donation in California, and is a member of the CalRecycle team tasked with developing the edible food recovery regulations for California’s Short-Lived Climate Pollutant Law, Senate Bill 1383. She received her bachelor’s degree in environmental studies from the University of California Santa Cruz, and her master’s in environmental studies from the University of Pennsylvania.

California’s short-lived climate pollutant law SB 1383 establishes a statewide target that 20 percent of currently disposed edible food must be recovered for human consumption by 2025. The law also requires CalRecycle to adopt regulations that include requirements intended to meet the 20% edible food recovery goal. In this presentation, Martine Boswell will provide an overview of the draft SB 1383 edible food recovery regulations, and discuss CalRecycle’s efforts to measure the amount of edible food in California’s disposed waste stream.