SWANA 45th Annual Western Regional Symposium
San Luis Obispo – April 11-14, 2016
Technical Session Presentations
TRACK 1 – SWANA LEGISLATIVE TASK FORCE
“Funding for New Organics Recycling Infrastructure While Addressing CalRecycle’s Budget Shortfall” A legislative and regulatory update regarding the LTF advocacy positions presented by Glenn Acosta
TRACK 2 – DIVERSION/COLLECTION
“How Costa Mesa Sanitary District is Using Waste Conversion Technology to Move Organics Out of the Landfill to Achieve 75% Diversion of Residential Waste Stream” presented by Scott Carrol, Costa Mesa Sanitary District, and Michael Silva, CR&R, Inc. Environmental Services
“The Garden City Sanitation / San Jose Pilot Split-Cart Garbage / Food Scrap Recovery Project” presented by Teresa Montgomery, Garden City Sanitation
“Options for Getting More Control Over Collection: Should Our Town Consider Regulating the Haulers? Pros, Cons, Politics, and Operations” presented by Dana D’Souza, Skumatz Economic Research Associates (Presentation Not Available)
“Collection and Processing of Yard and Food Waste: What Do Haulers and Cities Need to Consider for Their Business Model?” presented by Lisa Skumatz, Skumatz Economic Research Associates (Presentation Not Available)
TRACK 3 – ORGANIC SOLUTIONS / COLLECTION
“Pilot Food Scrap Collection Program Using Dual Food Scraps / Garbage Carts” presented by Karen Gissibl, Environmental Programs Manager, and Mark Bowers, City of Sunnyvale
“Processing the Sunnyvale Food Scraps by Sustainable Organic Solutions” presented by Richard Gertman, For Sustainability Too
“The Mountain View Pilot Every-Other-Week Organics Recovery Project” presented by Lori Topley, City of Mountain View
“Beyond Spreadsheets: Using Cloud Technology for Commercial Organics Monitoring, Compliance, and Outreach” presented by Emily Coven, Recyclist
TRACK 4 – LANDFILL GAS / AIR / GREENHOUSE GAS
“Use of Wet Gas Technology Thermal Flow Meters at the Kiefer Landfill” presented by Tim Isreal, Sacramento County
“An Introduction to TDA” (10 minute video):
“Horizontal Trench Media Behavior Characteristics in Landfill Gas Collection Systems, Tire Derived Aggregate (TDA) and Gravel Empirical Flow and Constituent Analysis at Badlands Landfill in Riverside County, California” presented by Joaquin Wright, CalRecycle
“Are Zero Clearance LFG Probes for Your Site?” presented by Ambrose McCreedy, SCS Engineers
“Mitigating Odors in Areas of Mixed-Use Development” presented by Nan Natanom-Harrold, Orange County Waste and Recycling
“Re-Organics – Feedstock Specifications: AD and Bioconversion – How can contracts provide for future changes in feedstock and markets?” presented by Constance Hornig, Esq., Law Offices
TRACK 5 – LANDFILL MANAGEMENT
“13 Million Yards of Earth (Landslides at F.R. Bowerman Landfill)” presented by Kevin Hanson, Orange County Waste and Recycling
“Achieving ‘Closure’ on a Pre-Regulation Burn Dump” presented by Janet Goodrich, CH2M
TRACK 6 – LANDFILL MANAGEMENT
“Water Conservation Efforts at the MSW Landfill” presented by David Tieu, Orange County Waste and Recycling
“Clean Closure, Design, and Reconstruction of a Class III Landfill Cell, Marine Corp Base Camp Pendleton, California” presented by Marielle L. Coquia, et.al, CH2M
“Regulatory Update: New and Revised Air and GHG Regulations Affecting Solid Waste Facilities” presented by Pat Sullivan, SCS Engineers
TRACK 7 – RECYCLING
“California’s Mattress Recycling Program” presented by Mike O’Donnell, Mattress Recycling Council
“Design a Rural CO Recycling Plan (Nevada County) in One Hour” presented by Tom Jacobs, Western Baler and Conveyor
“Increasing Large Item Recycling at MFDs and SFDs” presented by Lauren Romanazzi, City of San Jose Environmental Services Department, Integrated Waste Management Division
TRACK 8 – ORGANIC SOLUTIONS
“Organics Processing Technologies and Infrastructure Case Study” presented by Tracie Onstad Bills, SCS Engineers
“Powering a Resource Recovery Park with Landfill Gas” presented by Alan Davis, Caglia Environmental, and Jeremiah Seng, ThinkWire Energy Services
TRACK 9 – WASTE MANAGEMENT / GHG
“Implementation of the General Order for Composting” presented by Leslie Graves, California State Water Resources Control Board
“Implementation of Updated Compostable Materials and Transfer/Processing Regulations” presented by Robert Holmes, CalRecycle
“Emission of Selected Greenhouse Gases from a Landfill” presented by Derek Manheim, University of California, Irvine / Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
TRACK 10 – PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE
“Integrated Waste Management” presented by Nancy Ewert, Kern County
“Sustainable Waste Management Education for the 21st Century” presented by Dr. Sam Vigil, Professor Emeritus, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
“Succession Planning for the Solid Waste Industry: Creating the Comprehensive Operations / Procedures Manual” presented by Kasem Cornelius, Blue Ridge Services
