CRRA2021
The Tentative CRRA2021 Program is now available for viewing. Please note that more information will be added in the coming weeks. All scheduling is subject to change.
Session Description
Evan Edgar will discuss the big picture of SB 1383 and how it fits into the AB 32 Scoping Plan process on surpassing the goals of being carbon neutral by 2045 and now compost use on working lands is one of the centerpieces of the Scoping Plan process. Dan Noble with then discuss how SB 1383 procurement process works to sequester carbon into the soil of California. Evan and Dan will then bounce questions off each other in this vision quest for the best solutions.
SB1383-Article 12 Procurement Programs: Composters Collaborating with their Jurisdictions
PRESENTATION TOPIC
MARKETS
ORGANICS
Session Description
The Association of Compost Producers (ACP), HealthySoil.org, the California State Chapter of the US Composting Council) is a liaison association to the CRRA-CORC Technical Council for the past 20+ years. ACP has launched in 2021, a new Jurisdiction SB1383 Article12 Procurement support program. Our over 100 compost producer members work with their respective SW Jurisdiction and their local franchise hauler, and other local composters and stakeholders, to help them expand quality healthy soil application markets using compost.
Since compost is the top "recovered organic waste products that a jurisdiction may procure to comply with this article" 12, who better than to work directly with composters, the local experts in producing and marketing this important bioproduct?
ACP has developed a sustainable, continuously updating "Article 12 Procurement Assistance Program" that includes:
- Meeting regularly with local Jurisdiction's SB 1383 compliance stakeholders:
- Solid Waste Agency
- Solid Waste Franchise Collection Contractor (haulers)
- Compost Producers (including any ag or community composters)
- Other Bioproduct Producers
- Food waste & other organic waste generators
- Determining the ratio of compost product types and applications in local or adjacent county markets
- Managing seasonality, parallel and adjacent local healthy soil markets in collaboration with other bioproduct markets/procurement (e.g. natural gas, mulch, electricity, biofertilizer, biochar, materials, and chemicals)
- Managing product quality as it relates to procurement price vs. product give-away programs
This presentation will be an overview of the ACP "recovered organic waste products", it's "SB1383Article12 Procurement Support Program", and how best attendees can be networked into their local regional program in California.
Speakers
Dan Noble, Association of Compost Producers
Title
Exective Director
Speaker Biography
Dan Noble is a Founder of Noble Bioresources Inc. (NBI; NobleBioresourcesInc.com). NBI is a bioproducts market & industry development firm, based in California. He is also Executive Director of the Association of Compost Producers (ACP) (healthysoil.org; the US Composting Council California State Chapter) since 2002 and has over 40 years of science & business-based environmental education, market research, publishing, strategic consulting, enterprise, and association management experience.
Abstract Title
SB1383-Article 12 Procurement Programs: Composters Collaborating with their Jurisdictions
Speaker Abstract
Expect to Learn:
- How best to collaborate with local composters and other stakeholders to comply with SB 1383 - Procurement regulations
- How to form a combined SB 1383 Compliance and Bioresources Management Council to integrate your programs and contractors to achieve local and State goals
- How the ACP Supporting Member's "SB1383Article12 Procurement Support Program" can best support your Jurisdiction's SB 1383 Article 12 compliance.
Take-Aways:
- Why meeting regularly with local Jurisdiction's SB 1383 compliance stakeholders will support your program implementation, compliance, and integration with local soil amendment needs.
- Methods and systems for determining the ratio of compost product types and applications in local or adjacent county markets
- Options and methods for managing seasonality and parallel and adjacent local health soil markets in collaboration with other bioproduct procurement markets, e.g. natural gas, mulch, electricity, biofertilizer, biochar, materials, and chemicals.
- Systems for compost and other bioproduct quality as it relates to procurement price vs. product give-away programs
Net-Zero Waste California
PRESENTATION TOPIC
CLIMATE CHANGE
Session Description
"INDIVIDUAL SPEAKER"
Speakers
Evan Edgar, Edgar & Associates, Inc.
Title
Principal
Speaker Biography
Evan W.R. Edgar has thirty-seven years of experience in all aspects of solid waste management as a registered civil engineer. Mr. Edgar has advocated on for green energy incentives, compost market development, greenhouse gas reductions policies, and practical regulations in front of legislative committees, regulatory agencies, and local commissions involving the collection, hauling, processing, and composting of solid waste and recyclables. Mr. Edgar has advised private industry companies, state and local government, and non-governmental organizations and on recycling and organic waste project development issues including technical feasibility, land use compatibility, site design, grant and loan funding, and business development.
Abstract Title
Net-Zero Waste California
Speaker Abstract
The World Resources Institute, among many other studies, shows that global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions will need to drop in half by 2030, and then reach Net-Zero around the mid-century to avoid the worst projected climate impacts. In pursuit of reducing GHG Emission, businesses and local government leaders must measure their impact on climate change. Specifically, the solid waste industry can use the GHG impacts to determine their progress toward Net Zero GHG emissions. Net-Zero GHG. for the solid waste industry has been defined by the California Air Resource Board in their 2014 Scoping Plan and will be utilized. To meet Net-Zero GHG, one’s avoided GHG emissions must be greater than, or equal to, one’s operational GHG emissions. By analyzing the operational versus avoided emissions, it will be possible to demonstrate that the solid waste industry within California has achieved this Net-Zero GHG goal for the year 2018, years ahead of the 2045 goal. Based upon available data coupled with best practices in GHG modeling, it is estimated the solid wase industry has avoided more than two times more GHGs than have been emitted.