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Comment 6 for Aliso Canyon Mitigation Program Draft (alisompdraft-ws) - 1st Workshop.
First Name: Tim
Last Name: Taylor
Email Address: ttaylor@airquality.org
Affiliation: Sacramento Air District
Subject: Aliso Canyon Mitigation Strategies
Comment:
State legislation mandates that food waste generators of 8 cubic yards or more per week source separate and divert that waste from landfills. Sacramento Solid Waste Authority, (SWA), has passed Ordinance 26 to implement this requirement. Despite several years of effort to implement source-separation and diversion, and despite the ordinance, SWA anticipates that it will take several years to achieve compliance. SWA also recognizes that 4 yd/wk food waste generators will not be required to divert food waste until 2018 and 2yd/wk generators may never be required to divert. A coalition of utility, agency and non-profit organizations has been organized in the Sacramento Region to educate and assist both generators and collectors to source-separate and divert food waste into bio-digesters where the methane and CO2 emissions can be captured and turned into Renewable Natural Gas, (RNG), for transportation and for electrical energy production. This effort cannot be fully effective without significant additional funding, but with additional funding from the Aliso Canyon mitigation effort, food waste diversion could be significantly increased and air emissions of methane and CO2 could be significantly reduced.
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Date and Time Comment Was Submitted: 2016-03-22 06:08:24
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