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Name
Will Bakx
Title
Composter/Soil Scientist, Renewable Sonoma/Sonoma Compost
Bio
Will Bakx, co-owner of Sonoma Compost Co., started in 1985 processing agricultural materials. In 1993 he started the Sonoma county-wide yard debris composting program having diverted over 1,800,000 tons of organics towards soil amendments. He is currently working as a consultant and is co-owner of Renewable Sonoma.
Will earned a BA in Environmental Studies from Sonoma State University and a MS in Soil Science from U.C. Berkeley. He is the co-founder and board member of the California Organic Recycling Council (CORC) and co-founder and ex-officio of the California Compost Coalition (CCC)
The Pitfalls of Compostable Plastics and PFAS products in Organics
In 2008, at the US Compost Council Conference, I circulated a document highlighting the problems with compostable plastics. Twelve years later we have made remarkable little progress in addressing the issues. Wheras in 2008 the compostable plastics industry told the organics recyclers that the train had left the station and that we better adjust to these products, today we see strong signals that the train may have failed to get to its destination, with good reason.
The products are still not identifiable, may not decompose in an appropriate time frame, are not allowed under the National Organics Program and do not add value to the compost.
Will we get additional diversion if we allow food scraps to be collected in bags? Can we maximize diversion and keep our feedstocks clean? The challenge lays at our feet right now and we have fertile ground to explore the most suitable approaches. Let's get to the root of it all.
We'll explore future steps needed for a regenerative packaging future.
Will earned a BA in Environmental Studies from Sonoma State University and a MS in Soil Science from U.C. Berkeley. He is the co-founder and board member of the California Organic Recycling Council (CORC) and co-founder and ex-officio of the California Compost Coalition (CCC)
The Pitfalls of Compostable Plastics and PFAS products in Organics
In 2008, at the US Compost Council Conference, I circulated a document highlighting the problems with compostable plastics. Twelve years later we have made remarkable little progress in addressing the issues. Wheras in 2008 the compostable plastics industry told the organics recyclers that the train had left the station and that we better adjust to these products, today we see strong signals that the train may have failed to get to its destination, with good reason.
The products are still not identifiable, may not decompose in an appropriate time frame, are not allowed under the National Organics Program and do not add value to the compost.
Will we get additional diversion if we allow food scraps to be collected in bags? Can we maximize diversion and keep our feedstocks clean? The challenge lays at our feet right now and we have fertile ground to explore the most suitable approaches. Let's get to the root of it all.
We'll explore future steps needed for a regenerative packaging future.
