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Stanislaus County

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Stanislaus County

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  1. To insert your company logo on this slide • From the Insert Menu • Select “Picture” • Locate your logo file • Click OK • To resize the logo • Click anywhere inside the logo. The boxes that appear outside the logo are known as “resize handles.” • Use these to resize the object. • If you hold down the shift key before using the resize handles, you will maintain the proportions of the object you wish to resize. Stanislaus County Food Processing By-Product Program Presented by Sonya Harrigfeld Interim Director - DER December 2004 Add CorporateLogoHere

  2. An Overview of the Food Processing By-Product Use Program • Three Distinct Uses – • Direct Feed • Dehydration • Land Application

  3. Late 1970’s • Regulations were Implemented That • Eliminated Landfilling of Food • Processing By-Products • It was not apparent how 300,000 • Annual Tons of These By-Products • Were Going to be Handled • Uncontrolled Dumping Would Surely • be a Problem, so…

  4. In 1978 A Partnership Was Formed – • Food Processing Industry • By-Product Haulers • Agricultural Community • Stanislaus County

  5. Food Processing By-Products • Cull Tomatoes • Cull Peaches • Cull Pears • Culls of other Fruits and Vegetables • Skins, Seeds, and Stems • Other Organic Material

  6. Food Processing By-Products • Cull Tomatoes • Cull Peaches • Cull Pears • Culls of other Fruits and Vegetables • Skins, Seeds, and Stems • Other Organic Material

  7. Permit Requires Plan of Operation • 24-Hour Contact Information • Written Notice to Adjacent Property Owners • Detailed Site Map • Origin and Types of By-Products to be Received • Detailed Description of Use of By-Products • Detailed Description of How Nuisances will be Prevented

  8. Inspections • Once or Twice Weekly During the Season • On-Site Supervision? • Delivery Records Current? • Frequency and Depth of Application? • Flies and Vectors? • Odor Problems? • Standing Water?

  9. 15 Permitted Sites Average 300,000 tons/year • Direct Feed (12) • Spread and Dehydrate (1) • Land Application or Spread and Disc (2)

  10. Annual Permit Renewal • Performance Evaluated Annually • Did the Operator Maintain Compliance with their “Plan of Operation?” • Did the Operator Create Any Nuisances? • Were There Any Complaints?

  11. Continuous Program Review and Evaluation • Bi-Annual Meetings With Partners for Program Feedback • How Can Program Be Improved? • Implementation of Recommendations • Surveillance: Un-Permitted Sites?

  12. Since 1978 • Over 6 Million Tons of By-Products Recycled

  13. Valuable Program • County •Diversion Credit to City of Modesto and Regional Solid Waste Planning Agency • Food Processing Industry • Cost-Effective Recycling Alternative to Disposal • By-Product Users • Alternative Livestock Feed • Organic Soil Supplement • Alternative to Commercial Fertilizer

  14. Food Processing By-Product Use Program Difficult Waste Valuable Organic Commodity

  15. Food Processing By-Products Use Program • Beneficial Uses of By-Products • Keeps Our Food Industry Competitive • Identifies and Monitors Participants • Identifies all Use Sites • Self-Supporting, Fee Based

  16. Food Processing By-Product Use Program True Recycling Program

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