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.

Director or Compliance & Customer Relations

Kimberly has been with Marin Sanitary Service for 8 years and is currently the Director of Compliance & Customer Relations in charge of contract compliance, recycling program development, outreach, communications, and customer and public relations. She holds degrees from the University of California, Davis; University of San Francisco; and the University of California, San Francisco, and has certificates in Sustainable Practices from Dominican University and Management and Leadership from the California Refuse Recycling Council. She has lived in San Rafael for 35 years with her family.  She likes to hike, read, travel, eat and watch soccer anywhere any time.

The State is mandating diverting more organics from the landfill.  Composters are demanding clean feedstock and generators are confused over what "clean" really means.  This session will focus on how to minimize contamination at the source: the generator.  There is no one size fits all solution; however, there are models that have been successful. Proper program design as well as outreach, education and monitoring is an ongoing effort to reach and maintain your contamination goals.  

To be most effective, a feedback loop between the collection driver, the outreach coordinator, and the customer is essential.  

We will use the experience of the Organics education and outreach program of Marin Sanitary Service in San Rafael to illustrate an effective outreach program.  

Managing Director

Dr. Yaniv Scherson is the Managing Director for the western U.S. region for Anaergia. Yaniv is based in Carlsbad California where he leads Anaergia’s projects integrating organics recycling from solid waste with anaerobic digestion and wastewater for production of renewable power and renewable natural gas. Yaniv leads Anaergia’s turnkey system offering and supports Anaergia’s Design, Build, Own, Operate, and Finance arm. He is a licensed professional engineer in California and holds Ph.D. and Master degrees from Stanford University.”

Organics Recycling and Renewable Energy Generation from Mixed Solid Waste

California has implemented among the most broad and stringent regulatory requirements for diversion of organic waste from landfill and beneficial recycling as fertilizer and energy. Source separation has been considered a primary method for recovering organics. However, high cost of collection and outreach, coupled with continued community participation have made many programs either costly or difficult to implement widely – a barrier for widespread adoption. In contrast, centralized organics recycling is significantly more cost effective with no need for additional collection, outreach, or new bin; requires no change in human behavior; and utilizes traditional solid waste processing equipment that easily fits in existing transfer stations or MRFs. Use of the organic waste in anaerobic digestion maximizes value by producing renewable energy with long term fixed economic value that enables long term certainty in disposal cost and competitive tip fees. Furthermore, rapid deployment of organics recycling infrastructure can be realized with use of existing anaerobic digestion assets at wastewater treatment plants. Two California case studies, including the largest food waste digester in North America under construction in Rialto CA, will be presented of centralized solid waste processing with organics extraction at MRFs coupled with use of new and existing anaerobic digestion infrastructure.