California Air Resources Board

SB-32 was designed to help California reduce greenhouse gases. The original wording stated that California should seek out technologies that are cost effective and work with Nature.
California has put all efforts into supporting anaerobic digestion and composting, not much else. Unfortunately, neither composting nor AD we designed to handle PFAS forever chemicals, hormones, endocrine disruptors and more so these environmental offenders continue to spread through our water and soil. Then into our food and ultimately us.
If we do not clean up the waste, we will never clean up the water or soil. Gasification conversion equipment has been repeatedly proven to reduce waste volume, eliminate GHG's, and destroy the carbon chains in PFAS chemicals, hormones and other chemicals found in our waste streams. If we can clean up these contaminants before they are used in compost to grow our food, we will have cleaner food with a higher nutrient value. Conversion equipment can also be used to extend landfill life and reduce GHG's. The biggest crime is that legislators who are indebted to big corporations have used legislation such as AB-1188 to make this opportunity illegal in California. Conversion technology could be so cost effective for cities to meet their requirements under these organic waste laws, but legislators have made it illegal, and I would just like to know why? This is a very clean, low emitter technology. These facilities are carbon negative and will enhance both composting and AD facilities. It converts our worst environmental offenders into environmental heroes. It can handle a wide variety of organic waste including contaminated materials that normally go to landfills. It can reduce biosolids by 80% on the same day of collection, convert them into carbon that can be certified for carbon credits. We can now turn waste costs into certified carbon credits. CARB recognizes biochar as carbon sequestration, but CalRecycle does not. State agencies and legislation in California work against each other and make folks like me look to do business in other states. We need to stop polluting our oceans, watersheds and food supplies. This is how we can stop the bleeding and start real changes for long term solutions while bringing in new carbon credit revenues that could really help our state.
WASTE DILUTION IS NOT A SOLUTION; WASTE CONVERSION IS REAL DIVERSION.
California's organic waste legislation, CARB and CalRecycle need to be in sync because they are not.