What Drives WM Innovation

• Organic Material Recovery Facilities
• Smart Sorting – Recycling
• WM Smart Truck®
• Modern Landfills

New Technology Contributes to Full-Cycle Economy and GHG Reduction Goals

Davis Street Organic Material Recovery & Composting Facilities

California is a recognized sustainability leader and champion of climate action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. To meet SB 1383’s 75% organics diversion goal by 2025 the traditional three-cart system can’t be the only diversion practice used to succeed.

WM has invested in a revolutionary back-end solution, adopted from the high-performing facilities in Europe to help reach this goal. The composting facility is expected to meet CalRecycle definition of Source Separated Organics Processing Facility and produce compost to the State’s Title 14 specifications for land application. Introducing the Davis Street integrated organics recovery and composting facilities:

Organic Material Recovery Facility (OMRF)

• Extracts organic as well as recyclable materials mistakenly left in the trash stream
• Recovers more than 80% organic materials and nearly 90% of recyclables otherwise destined for a landfill
• Processes 300,000 tons of MSW a year
• Is the most integrated Organics Recovery Facility in the U.S
• Complements source separated, three-stream system to achieve increased diversion

Organic Material Composting Facility (OMCF)

• Composts organics and cellulous materials extracted from MSW
• Processes source separated Commercial food for composting
• Manages up to 350 tons of material a day
• Uses the most advanced processing technology and controls to produce compost in 21-24 days
• Operates in a fully enclosed building using best available control technology (BACT) to capture and reduce GHG emissions

WM Smart Truck®

These camaras will help jurisdictions meet strict California mandates for diversion by ensuring that customers recycling right while also making our communities cleaner and safer by reducing litter and preventing overloaded carts from spilling debris.

Eventually, this technology will be used so you can pinpoint exactly where you collection truck is while it’s servicing the neighborhood. Learn more about Smart Truck®

Modern Landfills – Closing the Loop

Turning Organics Material into Compost

Many of our landfills and centers convert the collected organics material form homes and businesses and turn it into compost. As an example, the Altamont Landfill opened the first industrial Covered Aerated Static Pile (CASP) composting facility in Alameda County in April 2018. The long-awaited facility provides in-county processing of up to 500 tons per day of residential green waste co-collected with food waste. Over the course of a year, 156,000 tons of materials will be diverted from the Altamont Landfill to be processed into an estimated 346,7000 cubic yards of finished compost.

Modeled after the successful composting system at our sister facility at the Redwood Landfill in Marin County, the CASP features 45 computer-controlled, aerated bays on a 10-acre paved pad, capable of composting 200 tons of material each over the approximate 21-day cycle. Stormwater and contact water are contained in a dedicated lined pond and an additional 30 acres is set aside for compost curing. The state-of-the-art facility took more than five years to permit and build at the cost of $15 million.

WM Earthcare Homegrown Compost is made from local yard trimmings and residential food scraps at Redwood Landfill‘s Covered Aerobic Static Pile (CASP) composting facility. The facility composts nearly 130,000 tons of material annually, following the US Composting Council’s Testing Assurance protocol. Homegrown Compost is approved for organic farming by the Organic Materials Review Institute (OMRI) and is a California Department of Food and Agriculture certified Organic Input Material.