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January 2019 | Vol. 6, Issue 1 Sustainable Organics Management
READY, RE-SET, GO
SB 1383 is entering the formal regulatory process and is CNG fleet on the way to electrification.
coupled with a dedicated new Administration that will not Procurement of Recovered Organic Waste Products in
back down on SB 1383, but instead will double down on SB 1383 recognizes the importance in developing RNG
banning diesel pollution; now is the time to get Ready, demand and compost use, CalRecycle has presented a
Re-set, and Go!!! We are not partying like it’s 1989 with AB fair share calculation with flexibility of procuring compost
939, which set up the infrastructure we have today. Instead, or RNG. Requiring, through a written contract, that a direct
we have fallen on the China Sword while seeking rate service provider to the jurisdiction procure recycled organic
increases on both recycling and organics at the same time waste products and provide written documentation of such
from local governments that have been distressed dealing evidence to the jurisdiction. This will allow the jurisdiction to
with an array of other priority issues. Significantly adding to delegate the RNG use to the local franchise hauler and/or
the green bin while the blue bin is suffering is posing huge other managed fleets, to fulfill the procurement requirement.
challenges as the new reality of recycling is being re-set This is an elegant community-scale fit where the franchise
after 30 years. hauler could produce and utilize their own RNG without
the need for expensive and restrictive pipeline injection,
As the industry is scrambling with recycling markets and
but could also draw RNG from a pipeline at a CNG fueling
contemplating more organic waste diversion, the new
station where RNG is not being produced locally.
Administration will leap-frog over any need to reform SB
1383 as Governor Newsom banned food waste from SB 1383 is about climate change and not landfill space,
landfills 10 years ago as Mayor of San Francisco with his parlaying the use of the AB 939 infrastructure, with the
Program Director, now the new Cal-EPA Secretary, knowing same shared responsibility tenets with local government
that it can be done. Without a hint of backsliding on AB and industry, but now generators may be on the hook
32 or SB 1383, Newsom proposes to ban diesel pollution by local ordinance. AB 939 inspired billions of dollars of
statewide by 2030. Mayor Garcetti of Los Angeles plans investment to meet the 50% waste diversion mandates to
to ban diesel by 2028, in time for the Summer Olympics. develop the collection and processing operations. Many of
While local government and the industry are struggling with these recycling facilities are being transformed by adding
how to permit the SB 1383 facilities, we should also be organics processing capacity and are ready to step up to
strategizing about our fleets, where 75% of the costs and the new challenges and opportunities.
90% of the carbon emissions are embedded.
The SB 1383 regulations will be Ready soon. The Re-
SB 1383 offers a closed loop system fuels, where internal Set button has been hit for recycling and now organics.
off-take agreements can be realized by using your own It is time to Go forth in partnership with the same spirit of
carbon negative RNG fuel, in your CNG fleet, produced AB 939. A lost garbage barge and a landfill capacity crisis
from your organic wastes, while cutting NOx to near-zero touched the nation to re-set recycling in 1990 and we
with the new CNG engines. One ton of organic waste can answered the call with collection and processing, but lacked
produce 19 diesel gallon equivalents (dge). The average domestic manufacturing. Since climate change impacts
collection truck uses 13,000 dge per year. With 8 million of today far surpass the landfill scarcity of yesteryear, you
tons of food waste and green waste targeted for diversion would think a greater call to arms would transpire among
by 2025 and with one-third allocated to AD and two-thirds local government, generators, and the industry to go forth
allocated to composting, over 50 million dges can be now with our California markets for compost and RNG
produced per year to fuel 4,000 CNG trucks. As diesel is to continue to increase our gross domestic product while
being phased out, the new Administration will need to carve significantly decreasing our carbon intensity to attain the
in RNG use on the organic highway and not bypass the 40% GHG reduction by 2030.
CaliforniaCompostCoalition.org
Governor’s Update Healthy Soils
Cap-and-Trade New DOUBLE DOWN
ON COMPOST USE
Budget 2019-2020 Cal-EPA Director The January 2019 Draft California 2030
As the 2019-2020 Budget was Governor Gavin Newsom appointed Natural and Working Lands Climate
released, California became the Jared Blumenfeld, 49, of San Change Implementation Plan (Plan) is
5th largest economy in the world. Francisco, Secretary of the Cal- now available and after two years the
Since 2001, California’s GDP has EPA, the state cabinet-level State finally included CCC metrics to
increased by 41% as GHGs have agency established in 1991 to double down on compost and mulch use
been reduced by 38%. Proceeds from oversee CalRecycle, CARB, State by 2030 and made compost application
the Cap-and-Trade Program have Water Board, DTSC and OEHHA. a priority after being silent. Comments
are due on Feb 8, 2019. Where the
facilitated approximately $9.3 billion in Blumenfeld is widely recognized as
preliminary draft Plan did not include
investments throughout California that one of America’s most innovative compost use on irrigated cropland at
further the state’s climate goals. The environmental leaders. In 2016, all, now compost application is being
Budget proposes a $1 billion Cap-and- he founded his own private firm targeted, adding 31,000 to 62,000 acres
Trade Expenditure Plan to support advising clean tech companies in each year to 2030, and mulching over
programs that reduce or sequester best practices after serving eight cropland also increasing at 10,400 to
greenhouse gases, including successful years as the west coast 20,800 acres per year.
programs that benefit disadvantaged Regional Administrator of the United The analysis to support this Plan used
and low-income communities, and States EPA, under Obama. a sampling method to combine COMET
support training and apprenticeships Planner outputs from twelve agricultural
necessary to transition the state’s Previously, he was Director of the San counties into a statewide average. While
workforce to a low carbon economy. Francisco Department of Environment specific levels of activity for each practice
for nine years, where he and then- were required to generate the estimated
CalRecycle stays at $25 million, Mayor Newsom worked effectively climate benefits, CDFA will target imple-
where $100 million per year is needed to make San Francisco the most mentation acres for healthy soils prac-
to invest the $2-3 billion into compost sustainable city in the nation and tices generally, rather than on practice
specific acreages. Additionally, because a
and AD facilities. Dairy AD goes banned food waste from landfills.
statewide average was used, the acreage
down from $99 million to $25 million. target is a statewide rather than regional.
There is $132 million for clean trucks With the new administration, its AB
Considering historic funding levels, imple-
to carve out the voucher program of 1045 and we need to let Jared know
mentation at the scale assessed would
$45,000 per truck with RNG use to where our compost is. It’s still siloed in cost approximately $18 – $36 million per
replace those diesel trucks, where the the reports and studies by the Water year, reducing GHG by 5.3 to 10.7 million
governor wants to ban diesel pollution Board, the Air Districts, and CDFA; metric tons.
by 2030. There is $230 million in and the recently released AB 1045
This Plan aims to integrate management
community air pollution protection Report in December 2018 is two years objectives wherever possible,
that will place more pressure on late and inadequate. The important coordinating all natural and working lands
compost facilities. Specific bioenergy concept of designating compost programs under a united approach. The
development using urban wood waste facilities as an ‘essential public implementation will significantly increase
is nowhere to be found. service’ is not even mentioned by and improve conservation, restoration,
CalEPA, which could be the solution and management of California’s natural
Healthy Soils increases to $18 million to complex air permitting by allowing and working lands through State
to provide incentives to farmers for a net-benefit of diverting organic programs and other means, to enhance
their resilience to worsening climate
agricultural management practices from landfills to be fully realized. The
change impacts, sequester carbon, and
that sequester carbon, including Program EIR for SB 1383 will be a reduce GHGs, and create healthy soils.
cover cropping, reduced tillage, and nice opportunity to fully analyze this.
compost application. Annual funding Whereas CARB has tried to integrate Goals for Natural Climate Solutions:
of $18 million was identified through all agencies in the AB 32 Scoping Compost application rates to 2030:
a modeling tool that CCC was able Plan, CalEPA has been ineffective
to heavily participate in (in the de- over the years on permit coordination. • On annual cropland
10,300 - 20,700 acres/ year each year
velopment of the Natural and Work-
ing Lands Implementation Plan) to Jared seems like the right person at • On perennial cropland
achieve soil conservation practices on the right time to take AB 1045 to the 21,000 - 41,900 acres/ year each year
500,000 acres by 2030, where com- next level and will not back down on • On non-irrigated rangeland
post use is slated to cover 350,000 of SB 1383. But, will he step up to make 2,100 - 4,200 acres/ year each year
those acres, for a benefit of 5.3 million it happen in partnership with industry
• On irrigated pasture
tons of carbon sequestration. and local government? 2,100 - 4,200 acres/ year each year
2 | January 2019 California Compost Coalition
SB 1383 Regulatory Affairs Regs Watch
Program EIR SRIA for SB 1383 Regs SB 1383 REGULATIONS
Net-Zero Now $330 Million Per Year CalRecycle’s proposed regulations were
officially noticed by the Office of Adminis-
CalRecycle will prepare and circulate The Standardized Regulatory Impact trative Law (OAL) on January 18, 2019.
an Environmental Impact Report Assessment (SRIA) is a required The proposed regulations implement the
(EIR) to disclose potential significant element of the initial rulemaking doc- department’s responsibilities established
adverse effects on the environment uments that must be submitted to the by SB 1383 (Lara, Chapter 395, Statutes
of 2016) Public Resources Code (PRC)
as a result of the planned adoption of Office of Administrative Law (OAL).
Sections 42652-42654, and 41780.01,
the SB 1383 Regulations. The results The SRIA is a 58-page document that and Health and Safety Code (HSC) Sec-
of the EIR will disclose information provides a macro statewide analysis tions 39730.5 - 39730.6. This rulemaking
on potential significant impacts and of the potential costs and benefits implements regulatory requirements to
mitigation measures, and is expected of the regulatory requirements. The reduce landfill disposal of organic waste
to assist state and local agencies with estimated direct statewide costs is ap- in order to achieve the greenhouse gas
information for future site-specific proximately $20.9 billion, from 2019 to emissions reductions required by SB
CEQA reviews that may be required 2030, and the direct economic benefit 1383. This action initiates the formal 45-
for new or expanding local projects is approximately $17 billion over the day comment period.
that may directly or indirectly result same time period. With an average 45-Day Formal Comment Period:
from the SB 1383 regulations. The net cost per year of approximately January 18, 2019 – March 4, 2019
Notice of Preparation (NOP) was held $330 million, the average increased Comments must be submitted by 5
on January 22, 2019 in Sacramento. cost per household would be approx- PM March 4, 2019. Comments may be
CCC was there and presented imately $17 per year, or $1.42 per submitted via e-mail to: SLCP.Organics@
comments that were posted on household per month, and the in- calrecycle.ca.gov (additional methods
January 8, 2019. creased cost to business is estimated for submitting written comments are
at $662 per year, or $55 per month. identified in the NOPA). Comments must
CCC will work hard to make this be be submitted during the appropriate com-
the Program EIR for compost facilities Reviewing several scenarios, the ment period in order to be considered.
that we have been advocating for SRIA estimates there could be 60 Please note: to ensure accurate guid-
CalRecycle to prepare for years. new or expanded compost facilities ance and consistent responses, CalRe-
CalRecycle certified the Program EIR at 100,000 tons per year, costing cycle staff will not be providing written
to assess the environmental effects of $13.5 million dollar each and 26 new responses directly to individual com-
AD facilities in California in 2011. That AD facilities at 100,000 TPY, costing menters at this time. Instead, all com-
ments submitted during the appropriate
Program EIR provided background on $46 million each, for a total of 86
rulemaking comment periods will be
technologies, potential impacts, and facilities by 2025 with a total capital catalogued and responded to as a part of
mitigation measures that has been costs of $2 billion. The SRIA estimates the final rulemaking package submitted
used to expedite the CEQA process at the costs for all aspects of SB to the Office of Administrative Law.
the local level. 1383 from education, enforcement,
Any substantial changes to the initial
contamination monitoring, reporting, regulatory language will be subject to
CCC comments included a better capacity planning, and procurement, additional notice and public comment.
definition of landfill baseline starting at $665 million in year one
operations; provided the math for A Formal Hearing will be held on March
and levels out at $350 million per
VOC reductions which that are 53% 12, 2019, where stakeholders and the
year thereafter. The SRIA relies on public can make comments on the regu-
less than landfilling but would still projections of potential infrastructure latory text.
need to purchase off-sets costing scenarios that are consistent with the
up to $54 million statewide if off- projections made in 2017 by CARB.
sets are even available; requested AB 901 REGULATIONS
essential public service analysis as The SRIA described $17 billion in After 1,130 comments and several
evaluated by CAPCOA; assessed economic benefits and NOx reduction years, at the December 18, 2018
that GHG and NOx benefits that the of almost 17,000 tons per year, and monthly meeting, CalRecycle staff
RNG procurement delivers. The SRIA could have also brought in the VOC have determined that no additional
provided public health benefit and reductions from baseline. There could modifications to the proposed rulemaking
needs to be included here as well. be 11,700 new permanent green jobs text implementing the AB 901 Recycling
and Disposal Reporting System (DRS)
CCC will provide the CARB definition and 4,500 temporary construction
are needed and have delivered a
of ‘Net-Zero GHG’ where these jobs. The value of avoided damages completed package to the Office of
facilities are Net-Zero Now, and can calculated using the social cost of Administrative Law for approval on
soon become 40X to 50X Net-Zero by carbon could range from $40 million to January 18, 2019 for publication in the
2020 and 2025. $100 million per year. California Regulatory Notice Register.
CaliforniaCompostCoalition.org January 2019 | 3
CCC Coalition Building
The California Compost Coalition OMG . . .
is a registered Lobbying Coalition with
the Fair Political Practices Commission
The Organics Management Group is Here!
(FPPC), created in 2002 by a group
of compost operators in response to Thirty years ago, AB 939 was signed Force, RCRC, CASA, CSAC, and the
demands for increased recycling of into law to divert 50% of waste by League of Cities linking SB 1383 to lo-
organic materials & production of clean 2000. With much fanfare, it was cal Climate Action Plans and transpor-
compost, bioenergy, anaerobic digestion, answering the call to a lost garbage tation emissions, while addressing the
renewable natural gas, and biochar.
barge and dwindling landfill space. Lo- issues of disadvantaged communities.
CCC Members cal government, environmental groups, BAC and the RNG Coalition have been
and industry all stepped up in partner- pushing RNG procurement at the Leg-
Agromin
American Refuse ship to build the recycling infrastruc- islature, with BAC supporting SB 1383
Atlas Disposal ture we have today. If only California RNG procurement. Sean Edgar will
Burrtec Waste Industries could have attracted the manufactur- continue his CARB loading on carving
Caglia Environmental ing capacity for paper and plastics to out vouchers for CNG vehicles using
California Waste Recovery Systems match the collection and processing RNG fuel, when it replaces a diesel ve-
California Wood Recycling industry. With SB 1383 entering the hicle. With Governor Newsom propos-
CleanFleets.net
Clean Fleets Advocates formal regulatory process coupled with ing to ban diesel pollution by 2030, the
Clover Flat Compost a dedicated new administration that will RNG demand and fueling infrastructure
Cold Canyon Compost not back down, but will double down on needs to be developed in conjunction
GreenWaste Recovery diesel pollution and renewable energy, with required SB 1383 facilities.
Marin Sanitary Service the call for partnership and coalition
Mt. Diablo Resource Recovery building is greater than ever. The political landscape of SB 1383
Napa Recycling Compost is far reaching into climate change
Northern Recycling Compost AB 939 with Federal Subtitle D landfill mitigation, with connectivity beyond the
Phoenix Energy
Quackenbush Mt. Compost liner regulations in the early 1990s institutionalized waste industry. AB 939
Recology Blossom Valley Organics disrupted the direct haul to disposal did not delve into the collection fleet,
Recology Feather River Organics model and attempted to create markets fuel production and dispensing, edible
Recology Jepson Prairie Organics for all waste streams, and was a huge food recovery, or incentive funding in
ReFuel Energy Partners success in launching new collection relation to disadvantaged communities.
Soiland Co, Inc. practices and processing techniques. With 75% of the costs and 90% of the
Sonoma Compost
Tracy Material Recovery Compost
AB 939 set the platform for SB 1383, carbon emissions attributed to trans-
Upper Valley Recycling which is now focused on organics with portation, SB 1383 offers a closed-loop
Vision Recycling a circular economy model, tapping into system where internal off-take agree-
Zanker Road Resource Management internal and regional markets. With ments are realized by using self-pro-
Z-Best Compost Facility composting and anaerobic diges- duced carbon negative RNG fuel in
Zero Waste Energy Development tion facilities as the center piece, the the company’s own CNG fleets, while
Zero Waste Energy, LLC
California Compost Coalition proposes cutting NOx to near-zero with the new
CCC Executive Committee to launch the ad-hoc Organics Man- CNG engines. OMG!!! Is that possi-
agement Group to create a coalition to ble?!
Bill Camarillo, Agromin
Vince Colvis, Mt. Diablo Recycling agree on the good of SB 1383 and fix
Greg Kelley, Northern Recycling what needs to be fixed in the collabora- Dairy Cares has a common voice
Eric Potashner, Recology tive spirit that has been lacking during and got $99 million in Cap-and-Trade
Greg Pryor, Recology the informal workshops while reviewing funding to implement SB 1383. We all
Will Bakx, Sonoma Compost the draft language. care and need to come together where
Christy Pestoni Abreu, UVR Compost we can speak in a common voice, as
Michael Gross, Z-Best Compost Justin Malan, with his agricultural the waste recycling industry has been
CCC Team contacts, will continue to push the fragmented based on private vs. public
Healthy Soils Initiative for private interests, urban vs. rural, north and
Neil Edgar, Executive Director
markets. Neil Edgar, wearing both his south markets, and Wall Street to Main
Evan Edgar, Regulatory Affairs
Steve Peterson, Financial Advisor USCC and CORC hats, will continue Street business models. The Organics
Monica White, Sustainability Advisor to seek out public sector procurement Management Group can hit the re-
Sean Edgar, Fleet Advisor with state and local agencies; he will set button and be an ad-hoc working
work with CRRC, ACP, and CAW on group/coalition focusing on SB 1383
CCC Legislative Affairs the facility regulations and AB 1045 regulations to support common themes
Justin Malan, EcoConsult implementation. Evan Edgar plans and comment on key issues to the
Neil Edgar, Edgar & Associates Inc. to visit the SWANA Legislative Task benefit of the entire industry.
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NET ZERO CARBON NEAR ZERO ZERO ZERO DISADVANTAGED
FACILITIES NEGATIVE FUEL FLEET WASTE PESTICIDE USE COMMUNITIES
Greenhouse Carbon Intensity Heavy-Duty Vehicle Disposal Pounds of selected CalEnviro Screen
Gases Transportation Fuel NOx Emissions Solid Waste Tons active ingredients 3.0 results
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The Net Zero Facilities in recycling sec- Diesel 102.01 Diesel Engines - 2002 Predominently
Predominently 91-100%
tor including material recovery facilities
processing recyclable materials, compost
CNG 88.60 Central Valley
Central Valley Farming
Farming
facilities, anaerobic digestion facilities, 90% Disposal -1990 81-90%
and biomass conversion facilities. The
new composting facilities are covered
aerated static pile systems using the 71-80%
best available control technologies and
the anaerobic digestion facilities are en-
closed closed-loop system without high
61-70%
Lbs/Square Mile
temperature incineration. The avoided
GHG emissions for these facilities com- Hydrogen 55.61 51-60%
Diesel Engines - 2007 56% Disposal - 2016
grams/bhp-hr
pared to landfilling fully offset the project
g CO2/KJ
Million Tons
emissions including collection, hauling,
processing activities and the landfilling of Landfill Gas 33.89 to 65.64 41-50%
residuals. Landfills and garbage Transfer
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The Short-Lived Climate Pollutant Plan (SLCP) was adopted on March 23, 2017 and the SB 32 Scoping Plan Update with 2030 goals is being consider by CARB on June 23, 2017. The
Organic Waste Biogas -25.48 community-scale anaerobic digestion facilities model is at the intersection of the SLCP, SB 32, and the Governor’s Five Pillars that California will: (Pillar 1) reduce today’s petroleum use in cars
25x - 15x
and trucks by up to 50%; (Pillar 2) increase from one-third to 50% our electricity derived from renewable sources; (Pillar 3) double the efficiency savings from existing buildings; (Pillar 4) reduce
the release of methane which includes diverting organics from the landfill by 2025; and (Pillar 5) manage farms, rangelands, forests and wetlands so that they can use compost and store carbon.
Scope 3 Recycling Benefits Organic Waste -100.0 RNG produced at these anaerobic digestion (AD) facilities has been deemed to be carbon negative and when utilized in CNG trucks with the near zero emissions will be a game changer today
by reducing heavy duty diesel emissions now while striving for zero waste. The digestate can be composted to produce organic materials to reduce pesticide and fertilizer use to produce healthy
Dairy Biogas -303.30 soils. A 25,000 ton per year, or 100 tons per day, AD-to-RNG project is designed as a community-scale model, and can serve a population of approximately 100,000 people. This model can
produce 333,000 diesel gallon equivalents per year of RNG with a carbon intensity of negative 22.9 g CO2e/MJ for a fleet of 45 heavy-duty trucks with near-zero NOx emissions.
AB 32 Scoping Plan 2014 Update LCFS Pathway CARB CARB and EPA certified 90% or more Waste Reduction Healthy Soils Initiative CalEnvironScreen 3.0
Waste Sector Certified Carbon Intensities ISL G NZ (8.9) L CNG engines from Landfills and Incineration with Compost Use Cap-and-Trade Investments
Net-Zero GHG Emissions from the The wide range of carbon intensities is In 2015, Cummins Westport certified Zero Waste is a goal that is ethical, Communities near agricultural fields, The California Communities Envi-
Waste Sector by 2030. Reduce Scope 1 due to the lifecycle emissions method- the world’s first heavy-duty engine at economical, efficient and visionary, to primarily farm worker communi- ronmental Health Screening Tool
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Scope 2 emissions with roof-top solar (LCFS); variation of feedstock types, below the existing federal standard) and practices to emulate sustainable pesticides. Drift or volatilization of environmental threat challenges. The
and on-site bioenergy. Avoid Scope origin, raw material production, process- for Class 7 refuse trucks and will be natural cycles, where all discarded pesticides from agricultural fields can objective in developing this tool is to
3 GHG emissions with recycling and ing efficiencies, and transportation all available for Class 8 transfer trucks materials are designed to become re- be a significant source of pesticide use it to assist California communi-
composting. To achieve Net-Zero, the contribute to the producers’ fuel pathway in 2018. To complement the NOx sources for others to use. Communities exposure. The use of most synthetic ties by directing state and potentially
direct GHG emissions from the Waste carbon intensity. The certification of reductions provided by this landmark that have a Zero Waste goal and are pesticides and fertilizers is prohibit- local government resources toward a
Sector would have to be fully offset by carbon negative fuel for the production engine, conventional (fossil) natural working towards or have reduced their ed from organic production. Organic common purpose: the revitalization of
avoided GHG emissions. Avoided GHG of renewable natural gas (RNG) from gas provides significant GHG reduc- waste to landfill, incineration and the farming with certified organic compost disadvantaged communities and the
emissions are reductions in life-cycle organic waste anaerobic digestion is tion benefits. However, renewable environment by 90% or more. Dozens use and a zero pesticide goal makes pursuit of environmental justice.
GHG emissions that would occur be- based on the biogenic feedstocks of natural gas with carbon negative fuel of large cities have adopted zero waste healthy soils. The multiple co-benefits Cap-and-trade proceeds have funded
cause waste is shifted from landfilling to food waste and green waste, and the completes the game changing prop- goal by 2025. California is at a 45% of enhanced soil organic matter on our projects where over $3.3 billion has
alternative non-disposal pathways. Most avoided methane emissions from the osition by providing the lowest carbon recycling rate as compost facilities are agricultural lands, include improved wa- been appropriated with 50% of the fund-
material recovery facilities are 15 to 25 landfilling of the material. The CNG truck intensity of any heavy duty transporta- curtailed by NIMBYism. ter retention, soil stability and nutrient ing benefitting DACs and 34% located
times offset over their GHG emissions. collect food waste to make RNG. tion fuel available in the market today. use efficiency to reduce fertilizer use. in DACs.
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