2023 Webinars
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April 12 | 12:00 PM Research to Improve Compost Emissions Air Permitting Tim O'Neill, Engineered Compost Systems
Presentation Description: VOC emissions, and their associated odors, are a critical component in permitting and operating compost facilities in Washington State. Default VOC emission factors adopted by regulators across the US, however, come from a non-systematic collection of widely varying source tests conducted between 2000-2010. In this presentation, Tim O’Neill will describe current research being conducted by Washington State University (WSU) and Engineered Compost Systems (ECS) to develop guidelines for regulators and process designers to predict VOC emission factors from compost facilities and to better understand the process parameters that affect those emissions.
May 2 | 12:00 PM Offal: A Not-So Awful Feedstock
Presentation Description: Waste disposal options have become increasingly limited, costly, and inconvenient for meat processors in Washington State. Hear from WSDA, Ecology, and two composters about how meat processing feedstock can be clean and manageable, and create a high-quality, nutrient-rich compost product.
May 18 | 12:00 PM Compost Operator Safety
Samantha Winkle, Waste Connections
Presentation Description: How does a composting facility go for over 10 years without having an accident or an incident? Are there ways to incentivize your team to stay safe? What does accountability look like from a safety perspective? I’ll dive into what we do to keep safety as our number one value and how we pass this passion through leadership changes. How integrity is factored into our safety programs and how the culture drives the results.
June 6 | 12:00 PM Managing Epidemic Mortalities in Poultry and Livestock with Composting
Lynne Carpenter Boggs, WSU
Presentation Description: Over 35 million poultry were composted in the US in 2022. Dr. Carpenter-Boggs will discuss the use of composting to manage livestock mortalities and disease outbreaks including Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza.
July 12 | 12:00 PM EPR in Washington and Oregon - Summaries of the WRAP Act and the Recycling Modernization Act
McKenna Morrigan, Seattle Public Utilities & Justin Gast, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality
Presentation Description: Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), also known as Product Stewardship, is a strategy to place a shared responsibility for end-of-life product management on producers, and other entities involved in the product chain, instead of the general public, while encouraging product design changes that minimize negative impacts on human health and the environment at every stage of the product’s lifecycle. McKenna Morrigan will summarize the 2023 Washington Recycling and Packaging (WRAP) Act which was proposed to establish a producer responsibility program that required consumer product producers to fund statewide residential recycling services for packaging and paper products. Justin Gast will discuss progress in implementing Oregon’s 2021 Recycling Modernization Act which authorized an EPR system to update recycling in Oregon; funded by producers and manufacturers of packaged items, paper products, and food service ware.
August 23 | 12:00 PM Implementation of HB 1799/Washington's Organic Management Law
Alli Kingfisher, Washington Department of Ecology
Presentation Description: The Department of Ecology is implementing the 2022 Organics Management Law. Alli Kingfisher will give a brief overview of the law and then do a deeper dive into the business organics management requirements.
September 13 | 12:00 PM Lifecycle Implications of the Food System and Food Waste Management
Peter Canepa, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality
Presentation Description: Peter will discuss the environmental implications of our food system, including several food waste management systems, through a Life Cycle Assessment lens.
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