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As a reuse recycler in business for 27 years, I agree with Eric Lombardi and would like to add a poignant postscript from California.
Since 1994 California has allowed what is in fact a landfilling practice to get recycling credit as "diversion from landfilling." I refer to the commodity known as Alternative Daily Cover, now widely used as a substitute for soil in building the landfill baklava. In chemical composition, ADC is largely "organic" in the sense that the bulk of its mass is carbon-based substances such as wood, fiber, paper bits, plant debris, and the like. ADC is also highly mineralized with crushed stone, soil, dust, plaster, drywall, paint fragments, pharmaceuticals, glass bits. ADC's small particle size and embodied moisture mean it starts turning into methane as soon as it is buried the day after it is used to cover the garbage. Most of ADC's methane escapes from its shallow grave.
So ADC is not diversion from landfilling at all, it is landfilling. A landfill operator admitted as much at the October 10 Compost Summit meeting in Sacramento when, as the sole defender of ADC in a room full of clean compost operators, he said "If I cover the garbage with 6 inches of soil, it stays 6 inches even after it is buried. But if I use 12 inches of ADC to cover the garbage, it reduces after burial to less than 6 inches, so ADC saves space."
The missing mass is largely the escaped methane, along with water vapor and CO2 plus lots of other VOCs.
Many observers are now agreeing that the California ADC scam amounts to a massive consumer fraud. I do not use the term "massive" lightly. In 2006 the amount of ADC landfilled was 8.4 million cubic yards, or 2.6 million tons. (Source: "Organics Summit: Background Discussion Paper" California Integrated Waste Management Board, Oct. 10, 2007) I leave it to you guys to figure out how much CO2 and methane this volume translates into. I do know that it's now a truism in our field to say that "landfills are the largest anthropogenic sources of greenhouse gases."
So you folks doing your emissions trading workshops should be warning your attendees about these kinds of fraudulent activities. Unfortunately, the solid waste management field is full of this kind of mind and material pollution right now. Maybe you need a real recycler as part of your team. I nominate Eric.
Dan Knapp Urban Ore, Inc. A reuse and recycling company in Berkeley since 1980
On Oct 24, 2007, at 11:18 AM, Eric Lombardi wrote: Gil,
Re: your ?Carbon Trading and Offsets? webinar, (which is fantastic!!) I wanted you to be aware that the GrassRoots Recycling Network (www.grrn.org) launched a new national education campaign at the NRC in Denver last month called ?Garbage is NOT Renewable Energy?. I have attached our one page handout, and there is more about the campaign on the GRRN website at http://www.grrn.org/landfill/notrenewableenergy/index.html.
Our goal is to help people understand that garbage-based energy is not green energy, and that when folks buy carbon offsets, they can do it right and they can do it wrong since tax breaks and ?green energy? designation has been given to the wrong technologies (bury/burn). We have done our research and found many options for purchasing carbon offsets that DON?T support the incinerator or landfill industries. For those that say landfill methane capture should be incentivized and rewarded, we say bullshit, methane generation in landfills needs to be eliminated and that capture systems should be required and added to the cost of doing business.
Since this campaign of ours is new, we are open to questions, criticisms, etc? but especially helpful SUGGESTIONS on how we can get the word out that not all carbon offset programs are the same! Let?s all support truly green energy paths, and not this crazy world of garbage-based energy sources.
Thank you all,
Eric
Eric Lombardi Executive Director Eco-Cycle Inc President GrassRoots Recycling Network 303-444-6634 www.ecocycle.org
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With AB 32 carbon trading regulations coming on line in California, carbon trading in the United States will move from voluntary to economically driven. This session will address what you'll need to know to develop your trading strategy and implement it profitably. (And to understand the debate over whether offsets represent efficient capital allocation or modern indulgences). Presented by: Adam Davis, President, Solano Partners
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Gil Friend is president and CEO of Natural Logic, Inc., a sustainability consulting firm helping clients build economic advantage through exceptional environmental performance. A systems ecologist and business strategist with 35 years experience in business, communications and environmental innovation, Friend combines broad business experience with unique content experience spanning strategy, systems ecology, economic development, management cybernetics, and public policy. Tomorrow Magazine called him "One of the country's leading environmental management consultants -- a real expert who combines theoretical sophistication with hands-on, in-the-trenches know-how."
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Adam Davis is President of Solano Partners, Inc., a consulting firm focused on environmental economics and conservation finance issues. Prior to founding Solano Partners, Adam served as Director of the Environment Division for EPRIsolutions, a consulting firm owned by the Electric Power Research Institute. Adam also co-founded and served as Principal at Natural Strategies, Inc., a management consulting firm working with companies to integrate sustainability principles into business strategy. Core clients included British Petroleum (Solar division), John Hancock Financial Services, Lowe's (home improvement stores), Southern California Edison, Genencor International, and the State of California (Cal EPA).
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