Workshop #3 – Wednesday, December 17, 2020 (1PM to 2PM Pacific/3PM-4PM Central)  Title: Don’t WASTE This Opportunity: Careers in Managing the San Francisco Bay Area’s Solid Waste

Lehman, Drew

Workshop #3 – Wednesday, December 17, 2020 (1PM to 2PM Pacific/3PM-4PM Central) Title: Don’t WASTE This Opportunity: Careers in Managing the San Francisco Bay Area’s Solid Waste

Thursday, 17 December 2020: 13:04

Drew Lehman, Environment & Education, San Francisco, CA, United States, Sergio Jimenez, University of California Davis, Davis, United States, Alyanna Hughes, San Francisco University High School, San Francisco, CA, United States, Fatma Monim, Cal State East Bay, Kinesiology, San Francisco, United States and Damen Harrell, San Francisco State University, Environmental, San Francisco, United States

Abstract:

The nine-County San Francisco Bay Area has long pursued the goal of sending “zero waste” to landfills. There are multiple geographical constraints, regulatory agencies and complex environmental regulations affecting the handling of Bay Area solid waste. Options range from recycling and composting of food waste for use as organic fertilizer to the ultimate landfilling of unusable residual waste - where the control of methane gas emissions, mitigating impacts to storm and groundwater and requirements for use of soil and alternative daily cover present an ongoing operational and environmental challenge. This presentation takes a close look at the geoscience of land disposal of waste and highlights the variety of careers in managing solid waste along each step of the process.