[GreenYes] Mar 20 - CRRA Policy Workshop Targets ADC to reduce GHG Emissions

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Mar 20 - CRRA Policy Workshop Targets ADC to reduce GHG  Emissions
 
Submitted by Scott Smithline on March 20, 2007 - 15:54.
 
Mar 20 - CRRA Policy Workshop Targets ADC to reduce GHG Emissions 
The Consensus: ADC is Major Barrier to Compost Infrastructure 
The title of yesterday's CRRA Policy Workshop was "Reducing Greenhouse Gases  
Through Composting Organics." A host of speakers, including myself, covered a 
 range of topics including GHG reductions through composting, barriers to  
composting, AB 32 policy and processes, and the CA organics infrastructure. An  
overwhelming emphasis was placed on ADC as a barrier to expanding composting 
in  California.  
Banning ADC is nothing new of course, as ADC has long been identified as a  
barrier to organics recycling. The question remains, what to do about it? 
Despite a sustained effort, environmental groups including CAW have been  
unsuccessful in moving anti-ADC legislation. For the last two years we have been  
unable to move modest legislation to slowly phase out the diversion credit 
for  greenwaste ADC, let alone get an ADC ban passed. 
As we try to increase composting in California for all the benefits it  
bestows upon us, we have to focus doing what is practical that moves us in the  
right direction. Where should we focus? The following three steps are critical  
and will lay the groundwork for expanding composting in California: 
1. The CIMWB simply must reconsider its position on ADC. The CIWMB?s failure  
to identify ADC as a major barrier to recycling organics in the state is 
perhaps  one of its greatest failures. The CIWMB simply must abandon its business 
as  usual attitude toward ADC and become a champion for the eventual phase out 
of  diversion credit for ADC. 
2. The numerous other barriers to composting, including local permitting, Air 
 District Rules, and Water Board Permits must be organized so resources can 
be  developed to deliver coordinated responses 
3. Finally, Composting needs increased market development. This includes a  
comprehensive itemization of the economic and environmental co-benefits of  
composting, the development of the idea of composting as a mitigation measure  
for air (GHG and other) and water pollution to be included as BMPs in  
agricultural and industrial practices, product development in terms of  specifications 
for the widest possible array of applications, and finally, a  true marketing 
campaign appropriate for the product and application. 
Anybody ready?

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