QUESTION
What is the preferred breakdown between anaerobic digestion and composting, and how is waste management transparency addressed?
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Deputy Commissioner Joshua Goodman does not specify a preferred breakdown between anaerobic digestion and composting due to potential legal implications, but emphasizes the importance of both methods.
- Both anaerobic digestion and composting are considered beneficial methods of waste management.
- The city currently composts around 9,200,000 pounds of material yearly, which is expected to increase.
- Goodman emphasizes the need for transparency in waste management data.
- Specific breakdowns like 80-20 between anaerobic digestion and composting are documented in the city's solid waste management plan.
- Council Member Shaun Abreu calls for public access to real-time waste management data.
Shaun Abreu
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You mentioned earlier that the breakdown of anaerobic digestion is 80.80 to 20 composting.
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What is that ideal, you know, percentage for you?
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Is it 5050?
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Is it the reverse?
0:28:16
I mean, what's the goal of the administration here?
Joshua Goodman
0:28:18
I I think that it's this is one where we know that the outcome of the competitive sealed bid could go to court if we say that our preference is this percentage or that percentage.
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Right?
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So we have to be careful about that.
0:28:31
I just wanna say that I think it's really important.
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That we understand that both of these are forms of beneficial use.
0:28:37
And I can I mean, I can share some numbers, you know, when you talk about that?
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80 twenties.
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But, I mean, the city is still composting £9,200,000 of material a year, and it's incredible.
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You know, £10,000,000 of stuff that was gonna end up in on landfill that ends up instead as a finished compost to go to our parks and gardens and that we give away for free to residents.
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So, obviously, that number is going to increase as the citywide program comes online and as this bid, the procurement process is completed.
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But there's gotta be a role for for both forms of beneficial use.
Shaun Abreu
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And the breakdown that you gave me 80 20, is that information I can get anyone can get online, or is this only, like, Or or or only is the agency privates to that information?
Joshua Goodman
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You you know, No.
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It's it's so it's in the sideways management plan.
Shaun Abreu
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Okay.
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Because I think in real time, I think having that information in real time, how much of it is you know, is going through anaerobic digestion versus composting.
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How much of it is getting landfill?
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How much of it is getting incinerated?
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How much is going back to beneficial, you know, uses?
0:29:42
I think all of this is information that the public deserves to know in the same vein that people should know that their their their scraps.
0:29:52
Aren't actually going to composting is actually going to anaerobic digestion.
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I think transparency is very important.
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It's something that, you know, I'm stressing here.
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But I'm happy to move on to my other question.
