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)