1 Nursery Products Hawes Composting Facility Helping Farmers, Recycling Resources, Protecting the...

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Nursery Products Hawes Composting Facility

Helping Farmers, Recycling Resources,

Protecting the Environment

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Benefits of Compost Recycling

● Assembly Bill 939 Requires municipalities to recycle

at least 50% of their waste, which includes:

• Glass• Plastic• Paper• Aluminum• Green material• Biosolids

Municipalities that do not comply with AB 939 could be fined up to $10,000 per day

Recycling is Required by State Law

Nursery Products Composting Process

Nursery Products receives treated biosolids from waste water treatment plants in covered trucks and turns it into safe and beneficial compost

Biosolids, which are 80-90% water, are mixed with green material (wood chips, tree trimmings, etc) and composted in a controlled process

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Distance Makes A Difference

22 miles from Barstow

8 miles from Hinkley

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Proposed Hawes Composting Site

View from Southwest

View from Northeast

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3 miles from Barstow City Hall

1 mile from residents

Barstow Open-Air Biosolids Drying Operation

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Air Quality Impacts

● This compost facility will eliminate:

6 million miles of truck traffic

1 million gallons of diesel fuel

● This project will not affect MDAQMD’s achievement of federal ozone air quality standards by 2007

GHG Reduction

Avoid methane emissions in landfill

Reduce Transportation miles to out of State disposal facilities (reducing 83.8 tons of NOX per year)

Carbon Storage in Soil8

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In Conclusion

Compost is an important diversion from landfills

Compost conserves water

Compost enhances crop growth

Scientific evidence shows composting is safe

Perfect location – remote and arid

The project will eliminate 6,000,000 miles truck travel and save 1,000,000 gallons of diesel fuel

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Nursery Products Hawes Composting Facility

Helping Farmers, Recycling Resources,

Protecting the Environment