Martine Boswell is an Environmental Scientist in CalRecycle's Statewide Technical and Analytical Resources Branch. She serves as CalRecycle's technical advisor on food waste, and provides scientific analyses on California's food system and climate change. Martine is also engaged in statewide efforts to increase safe surplus food donation in California, and is a member of the CalRecycle team tasked with developing the edible food recovery regulations for California's short-lived climate pollutant law, Senate Bill 1383. She received her bachelor's degree in environmental studies from the University of California Santa Cruz, and her master's in environmental studies from the University of Pennsylvania.
CalRecycle's 2018 & 2020 Commercial Generator-Based Edible Food Waste Characterization Studies and the Future of Edible Food Recovery SB 1383's edible food diversion targets require data to help establish baselines and develop a capacity planning tool for jurisdictions. This tool will also be useful for food generators in certain business groups. What sort of data will the 2018 and 2020 food generator study provide and how will it help certain business groups? How will COVID-19 impact the 2020 study plan and generated data?