Site Suitability and Air Pollution Impacts of Composting Infrastructure for California's Organic Waste Diversion Law.

ABSTRACT: California's organic waste diversion law, SB 1383, mandates a 75% reduction in organics disposal by 2025 to reduce landfill methane emissions. Composting will likely be the primary alternative to landfilling, and 75-100 new large-scale composting facilities must be sited in the state to meet its diversion goal. We developed a strategy for evaluating site suitability for commercial composting by incorporating land-use, economic, and environmental justice criteria. In our Baseline scenario, we identified 899 candidate sites, and nearly all are within a cost-effective hauling distance of cropland and rangelands for compost application. About half of sites, mostly in rural areas, are not within a cost-effective collection distance of enough municipal organics to supply an average-sized facilit

SUBMITTER: Harrison BP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11562721 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature