Transcript What Is Happening To The Waste In LA County?

What is Happening to
the Waste in
Los Angeles County?
Patrick Holland
County o f L o s Angeles
Department o f Publ ic Works
Environmental Programs Division
August 8, 2016
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Presentation Overview
• LA County’s Sustainable Waste Management Plan
• Organics Management
• County Unincorporated (incl. Collection)
• County Operations (County Facilities)
• Regional/Countywide (incl. Infrastructure)
• Conversion Technologies
• Challenges and Next Steps
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The County’s Role in Waste
Management
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Advise the Board of Supervisors on Solid Waste Issues
Permit Solid Waste Facilities
Coordinate Trash Collection For Unincorporated Areas
Conduct Long-Term planning
Implement Waste Reduction Programs
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Drivers for Waste Diversion
• Policy:
• AB 939 – 50% Waste
Diversion
• AB 32 – GHG Reduction
• AB 341 – 75% Recycling Goal
• AB 1826 – Commercial
Organics
• Draft Short-Lived Climate
Pollutant Reduction Strategy
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New Waste Management
Paradigm
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Waste Composition
Los Angeles County disposed 8.9 million tons of trash in 2014
• Total Organic Waste = ~3.5M tons
• Food waste = ~1.6M tons
• Green waste = ~0.6M tons
• Combined food and green waste is 25%, which is equivalent to
2.2 million tons per year or 7,050 tons per day
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How to Divert Food Waste
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Organics Management Plans
County Unincorporated Communities (CUC)
• Identification and outreach to large generators
• Manage collection
County Operations
• On-site small scale solutions
• Updating waste hauling
contracts
Countywide
• Infrastructure planning and
facilitating development
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CUC Organics Management
Identifying Large Commercial
Generators
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Service level information and
CalRecycle tools
Identified 200 accounts within tier 1 of
10,000
Identified 115 County Facilities
Outreach to Businesses
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Flyers, letter, Surveys, and Site visits
Monitoring and Enforcement
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Annual inspections
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Organics Collection Programs
2 Garbage Disposal Districts (GDDs)
• 68 voluntary businesses
• Organics Extrusion Press
Commercial Franchise
• 4 proposals received
• Pilot collection program
began in 2016
Options Analysis
• Source separated vs. wet/dry
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County Ops Organics
Management
• County of Los Angeles:
• Over 30 Departments and 100,000 employees
• Several hundred facilities
• Update County Facility waste
hauling contracts
• Pitchess Detention Center
Anaerobic Digestion Facility
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Organics Recycling Pilot - DPW
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Countywide Organics
Management
• AB 876: Calculate total Countywide organics generation
• Identify existing organics processing facilities
• Determine planned and
needed organics processing
capacity
• Facilitate the development of
organics processing facilities
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Existing Infrastructure
• Materials Recovery Facilities
• Sanitation Districts
• Out-of-County Facilities
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Planned Infrastructure
CR&R - Perris
Anaergia – Anaheim
Sanitation Districts - Various
Pitchess Detention Center – Castaic
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What are Conversion
Technologies?
• Processes capable of converting
post-recycled residual solid
waste into useful products and
chemicals, green fuels, and
renewable energy
• May be thermal, chemical, or
biological, but are not
incinerators
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Successful Conversion
Technology Projects
Enerkem Biofuels, Alberta
Interstate Waste Technologies,
Japan
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Environmental Benefits
• Reduce dependence on landfilling and waste exportation
• Locally produce renewable energy and green fuels
• Increase recycling
• Reduce emissions
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Additional Benefits
• Projects are green job creators
• Public-private partnerships
reduce risk and save taxpayers’
money
• Conversion technologies can be cost competitive with
other alternatives, such as waste-by-rail
• Localize ways to achieve zero waste without depending
on international recycling market
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Comparative Analysis
• Comparative Life Cycle
Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Analysis white paper quantifies
the benefits of alternative waste
conversion technologies
compared to traditional
landfilling
• Results from the white paper
support the use of conversion
technologies as part of an
integrated waste management
approach
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Comparative Analysis
•The baseline scenario produces approximately net 1.64
million MTCO2e over 125 years
•The alternative scenario produces approximately net -0.66
million MTCO2e over 125 years
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Challenges
• Determining the most efficient and reasonable way of collecting
and processing organic waste
• Outreach and education to impacted stakeholders
• Monitoring and ensuring compliance of businesses
• Developing, financing, and permitting for organics processing
infrastructure
• Lack of markets for compost and organics residuals
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Looking Ahead
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Step up the Education – Next tier of Businesses
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Analysis of organics management mechanisms and collection
options
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Assisting with permitting and grants for new organics
management facilities
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Pursuing and supporting new legislation
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Determining best option for on-site organics management at
County facilities
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Questions?
Patrick Holland, PE, MBA
[email protected]
(626) 458-3592
For more information, visit
www.CleanLA.com
www.SoCalConversion.org
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