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Workshop Agenda:

Reducing Greenhouse Gases Through Composting Organics

Welcomes and Overview of AB32
9:00 - 9:20: Moderated by Julie Muir, President, CRRA; Speakers (10 minutes each):

• Mark Leary - CA Integrated Waste Management Board (CIWMB), “How and why the CIWMB has incorporated AB32 into the purpose of the CIWMB”
• James Goldstene, Air Resources Board, “How AB32 plans to reduce greenhouse gases and how and when we can participate in its implementation”

An overview of AB32 will be provided, how State agencies working on this issue are responding and opportunities for public input.

How Composting Reduces Greenhouse Gases
9:20 - 10:40: Moderated by Gary Liss, Gary Liss & Associates; Speakers:

• Dr. Sally Brown, University of Washington, “The Global Warming/Composting Connection” (25 minutes)
• Roger Vander Wende, Community Recycling & Resource Recovery “How composting organics in CA reduces greenhouse gases”  (25 minutes)
• Chris Choate, Norcal, “How to mitigate air quality to reduce GHG and help site more composting facilities” (15 minutes)

Presentations will highlight how much wasting and landfills contribute to global warming and why it is important to reduce the amount of organics landfilled. Presentations will also highlight how much greenhouse gases could be reduced through composting organics and what improvements in technologies will be needed to strengthen the industry.

Key Policy & Program Changes Needed to Compost More Organics
10:55 - 12:15:  Moderated by David Krueger, HF&H Consultants;  Speakers (10 minutes each):

• Matt Cotton, Integrated Waste Management Consulting & President, US Composting Council, “CA's Composting Capacity and Organics Diversion infrastructure”
• Scott Smithline, Californians Against Waste, “Policies to Eliminate Barriers and Increase Composting”
• Judith Friedman, CIWMB, “CIWMB studies of composting and landfill GHG contributions”
• Evan Edgar, Edgar & Associates, “The Certified Organic Plan Before the Ban ”
• Peter Anderson, RecycleWorlds, “What changes are needed in Landfill Policies to Expand Composting”

Experts will highlight the need for aggressive action to remove organics from the landfill to reduce GHG emissions and what are key policies and programs that are needed to accomplish that goal.

12:15 - 1:15- Lunch on Your Own

Roundtable Discussion of Key Issues with Stakeholders and Audience
1:15 - 2:45: Moderated by Richard Anthony, Richard Anthony Associates; Speakers (10 minutes each):

• John Davis, Mojave Desert Mountain JPA & Author of CRRA's Resource Management Act, “Tools recommended by CRRA to expand composting of organics in CA”
• Michele Young, City of San Jose & CA Organics Recycling Council, “Tools to develop markets for compost products and to limit use of ADC”
• Jack Macy - San Francisco Department of the Environment, “AB32 Policy Implications for Local Government”
• Michael Gross, Z-Best, “Structuring Solid Waste and Recycling procurement contracts to limit use of ADC and buy back compost products”
• Rich Flammer - Hidden Resources, “Eliminating barriers to farmers reinvesting organic resources into soil”

Stakeholders respond to policies from morning and interact with audience to develop proposals further.

Where Do We Go From Here?
3:00 - 4:00: All attendees, moderated by Julie Muir, Peninsula Sanitary Services and President, CRRA.
All earlier speakers are invited to participate as resources.

This is a FREE event.

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