OXNARD, California – Agromin, California’s largest organics recycler, composted and marketed over 1 million tons of organic waste in 2021. It is poised to increase its organic waste capacity considerably this year as it helps cities, counties and other jurisdictions throughout California meet the strict organic waste mandates of State Senate Bill 1383, which took effect on January 1.
Cities and counties are creating municipal programs instructing residents and businesses how to manage their food waste in response to this landmark climate change legislation. Communities across California rely heavily on waste haulers and companies like Agromin to fulfill their organic waste recycling requirements.
In its efforts to help communities comply with SB 1383, Agromin maintains and manages an infrastructure of 21 processing and composting facilities throughout the state. The organic green waste, wood waste, ag waste and food waste processed by Agromin would otherwise be disposed in landfills, where it would emit harmful methane gases into the atmosphere.
Agromin began over 30 years ago by trimming trees for utility companies and then trying to figure out what to do with all the trimmings. That quandary became the nucleus of an idea about green waste recycling and the birth of Agromin as a manufacturer of Earth-friendly soil products for farms, government sites, major sports arenas, public and private landscapes and home gardens. Its products are available in bulk and in bags.
For its innovations and its work as an agricultural industry leader, Agromin is a U.S. Composting Council Composter of the Year recipient.
Headquartered in Ventura County, Agromin is the organics recycler for over 200 California communities. Agromin manages organic waste and markets compost and mulch in 16 California counties: Alameda, Imperial, Kern, Los Angeles, Merced, Orange, Riverside, San Benito, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, Santa Clara, Sacramento, Solano, Ventura and Yolo.
Agromin uses a safe, natural and sustainable process to transform the material into more than 300 different organic soil products for landscape, agriculture, retail and energy markets. The results are more vigorous and healthier plants and gardens and, on the conservation side, the opportunity to close the recycling loop, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions at landfills.
“By composting organic waste, we can eliminate harmful greenhouse gases that cause climate change while producing nutrient-rich soil products,” says Bill Camarillo, Agromin’s CEO. “That’s been our mission since we began in 1990. Placing organic carbon back into the soil in the form of mulch and compost means we can create healthier soil, plants and trees and take the steps needed to heal the planet.”
Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that is expected to cause nearly half of the projected temperature rise from new emissions over the next two decades. Based on the emission factors developed by the California Air Resources Board, keeping 1 million tons of green waste out of landfills is equivalent to preventing 440,000 tons of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere or taking 95,000 cars off the road, based on EPA estimates of average yearly automotive emissions.
Today, under SB 1383, California jurisdictions are required to reduce the amount of green waste they place in landfills by 75% of 2014 levels by 2025, and instead procure recycled organic waste products such as compost and mulch for use in their parks, schools, street medians, agriculture and other locations. Agromin created California Compost (www.CaliforniaCompost.net<http://www.CaliforniaCompost.net>) to help jurisdictions comply with the new product procurement laws.
“Sequestering carbon back into the soil through mulch and compost is a smart way to reduce waste, rejuvenate the soil and combat climate change,” says Camarillo. “Under SB 1383, every jurisdiction must provide organic and food waste collection services to residents and businesses. That means all of us now have the opportunity to recycle more and make a positive change to our environment.”
For more information, go to www.Agromin.com<http://www.Agromin.com>.
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At least Mr. Garcia didn’t report that people are required to ‘donate’ their work to this cause.
I’d like to see a report on how the ‘jurisdictions’ are using this ‘new’ law to gouge residential property-owners with ‘fee’ increases in violation of Proposition 218.
See my article on the propaganda campaign at the referenced web site.