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Market Research:. Research performed by Calvin Johnson of UC Berkeley Geography Department June 2010. Current and Future Opportunities for Oscar. Current State of Curbside Food Waste Collection Indicators of Potential Growth of Curbside Collection Physical Infrastructure Legislation

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  1. Market Research: Research performed by Calvin Johnson of UC Berkeley Geography Department June 2010

  2. Current and Future Opportunities for Oscar • Current State of Curbside Food Waste Collection • Indicators of Potential Growth of Curbside Collection • Physical Infrastructure • Legislation • Cultural Drivers • Potential Partners/ Stakeholders

  3. Curbside Organics Pickup in US 54 curbside 19 curbside 2 Curbside curbside Pilot Program 2 Curbside 2 curbside 1 curbside 2 curbside 3 curbside 22 curbside

  4. Food Waste Processing Facilities Supporting Current Curbside Pickup Services

  5. Statistics Regarding Curbside Pickup of Food Waste • Communities with Curbside Pickup of Food Waste: 108 • Areas expecting immediate growth of curbside pickup: • San Mateo County (CA), Portland metropolitan area (Or), North Eastern Ohio • Total number of communities likely to increase by 20 in the following year • Households Served: approx. 2 million • Food Waste Diversion Rate: approx. 2.5%

  6. Indicators of Future Growth of Curbside Pickup

  7. Physical Infrastructure

  8. All U.S. Facilities Composting Food Waste *Conservative measure of food composting facilities. These facilities have been selected for high likelihood that they could be incorporated into municipal curbside food waste collection programs. These facilities are mostly high volume public and private facilities that accept food waste from a wide range of sources.

  9. Food Waste Composting Facilities by State • Alabama- none • Alaska- none • Arizona- none • Arkansas- none • California: • Kern County: • Community Recycling & Resource Recovery (Lamont) • San Joaquin Composting (Lost Hills) • King’s County: • Kochergan Farms Composting (Avenal) • Riverside County: • California Biomass Inc. (Thermal) • San Benardino County: • Miramar Greenery (San Diego) • Santa Barbara County: • Engel and Gray Inc. (Santa Maria) • Santa Clara County: • BFI Organics: Newby Island Facility (Milpitas) • South Valley Organics Composting Facility (Gilroy) • Z-Best Products (Gilroy) • Solano County: • Jepson Prairie Composting Facility (Vacaville) • Stanislaus County: • City of Modesto Co-Compost Project (Modesto) • Gilton Resource Recovery (Modesto) • Grover Landscape Services, Inc. (Modesto) • Colorado • A1 Organics Rattler Ridge Facility (Keenesburg) • Mesa County Solid Waste Management (cull fruit only) (Grand Junction) • Western Disposal Inc. (Boulder Area)

  10. Food Waste Composting Facilities by State • Connecticut • Garick, Paygro Division New Milford Farms (New Milford) • Greencycle (Ellington) (commercial and institutional) • Delaware- none • District of Columbia- none • Florida-none • Georgia: • Greenco Environmental (Barnesville) • Hawaii:none • Idaho: none • Illinois: none • Indiana: • Greencycle (Avon/Danville, Indianapolis, Noblesville, Zionsville) • Iowa: • Chamness Technology, Inc. (Blairsburg) • Kansas: none • Kentucky:none • Louisiana: none • Maine:none • Maryland:none • Massachusetts: • Brick Ends Farm (South Hamilton) • Montview Neighborhood Farm (Northampton) • Michigan: • Ann Arbor Compost • Mackinac Island Solid Waste Facility • Minnesota: • Creekside Organic Material Processing Facility (Hutchinson) • Specialized Environmental Technologies (Rosemount) • Western Lake Superior Sanitary District (WLSSD) (Duluth) • RW Farms (Carver) • Mississippi: none • Missouri: • Missouri Organic Recycling, (Kansas City) • Montana: none

  11. Food Waste Composting Facilities by State • Nebraska:none • Nevada: • A1 Organics (Las Vegas) • Full Circle Compost (Minden) • New Hampshire: • Eco-Movement (Portsmouth) • New Jersey: • Converted Organics (Woodbridge) • New Mexico: • Soilutions Inc. (Alberquerque) • New York: • Wecare Organics, LLc. (New York City) • North Carolina: • McGill Environmental • Rose Hill • New Hill • Novozymes North America, Inc. (Franklinton) • Wallace Farms, Inc. (Huntersville) • North Dakota: none • Ohio: • Barnes Nursery (Huron) • Sagamore Soils (Hudson) • Hirzel Farms Organic Composting (Pemberville) • Price Farms Organics (Delaware) • Cuyahoga Composting Facility (Solon) • Paradise Composting (Wooster) • Rosby Resource Recycling (Brooklyn Heights) • Kurtz Bros. Inc. (Groveport) • Sansai Environmental (Cleveland)

  12. Food Waste Composting Facilities by State • Oklahoma: none • Oregon: • Pacific Region Compost Facility (Corvallis) • Pennsylvania: • State College Borough (state college) • Rhode Island • Earthcare Farm (Charleston) • South Carolina: none • South Dakota:none • Tennessee: none • Texas: • New Earth Compost (San Antonio, Conroe) • Custer Road Facility (Plano) • Regional Composting Facility (Melissa) • Utah- none • Vermont • Intervale Compost Products (Burlington) • Vermont Compost Company (Montpelier) • Grow Compost LLC (Moretown) • Virginia • Poplar Manor Enterprises Compost (Floyd County) • Washington • Cedar Grove Composting (Maple Valley) • Silver Springs Organics • Lenz Enterprises (Stanwood) • LRI Compost Facility (Puyallup) • Darling-Delaware Company (Tacoma) • Skagit Soils Inc (Mount Vernon) • West Virginia: none • Wisconsin: • Columbia County Co-Composting Facility (Pacific) • Compost Joe’s (Van Dyne) • Growing Power Compost Facility (Merton) • Wyoming • Terra Firma (Jackson)

  13. Data Regarding Food Compost Facilities • By my count, there are 73 composting facilities capable of processing food waste in 26 states • Other measures that include university and on farm composting operations that process food range between 200 and 300 (many of these are unlikely to play a significant role in municipal programs) • Estimates of total yard waste composting facilities in states range between 3,000-4,000

  14. Legislation

  15. Delaware North Carolina Florida Minnesota Massachusetts Nebraska Ohio Maryland Georgia Illinois Indiana Iowa Michigan Minnesota New Jersey Pennsylvania Arkansas Connecticut Missouri Nebraska New Hampshire North Carolina Oregon South Carolina South Dakota West Virginia Wisconsin States with Yard Waste Bans

  16. Effect of Yard Waste Ban • Following yard waste bans in approximately half of the states in the U.S. between the mid 80s and the early 90s, the number of composting sites in the states increased rapidly- today there are somewhere between 3,000 and 4,000 yard waste composting operations

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