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"Tic-Tac-Compost" or  "Selling the Brooklyn Bridge One Cubic Yard at a Time"

Would you like to explore your questions about composting with an exquisite select panel of solid waste regulators? Come join us in an interactive display of regulation-writing showmanship. Test your wits with the expert panelists and solve the meaning of compost life.

Hear the questionable answers to questions like:

"O.I.M.P." stands for:

a. Odor Is Mostly Perception
b. Office of Ideology, Metaphysics, and Psychoanalysis
c. Odor Isn't My Problem
d. None of the above

To be approved, the OIMP must be prepared by:

    a. A certified "Nasal Ranger"
    b. A registered odor engineer
    c. A licensed bloodhound

All biosolid handlers will need a:

    a. Full solid waste facility permit
    b. A petition signed by 503 neighbors
    c. Hip waders

A mushroom grower is producing growth medium (mushroom bedding) from racing horse stable manure, dairy farm manure, straw, and green material from landscape operations. Which tier?

True/False: Vermicomposting is an excluded activity if more than 5 worms are present in the herd.

True/False: Chipping & grinding and other handling operations must sample and analyze for pathogens and metals.

Activities to include, but not limited to the following:

  • Story-telling (Lying)
  • Reductive reasoning
  • Intimidation
  • Democratic process

(Fun & Useful Information to be had by all)

Check out our panelists:

PANELIST #1

  • Birthday: November 2
  • Sign: Scorpio
  • Hometown: St. Louis, MO
  • Hobby: Collects celebrity lint
  • Surprising: This REHS was a professional opera singer before getting into environmental sciences. 

PANELIST #2

  • Birthday: July 21
  • Sign: Cancer
  • Hometown: Philadelphia, PA
  • Hobby: Painting (kittens and children on velvet)
  • Surprising: This REHS is in the Guinness Book of World Records as the fastest one-fingered typist.

PANELIST #3

  • Birthday: April 4
  • Sign: Aries
  • Hometown: Tulia, Texas 
  • Hobby: Watching musicals starring Gene Kelly
  • surprising: This REHS will inherit three million dollars next year.

PANELIST #4

  • Birthday: March 14
  • Sign: Pisces
  • Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
  • Making and flying kites from compressed polyurethaned food waste (won the County championship the last two years).
  • Surprising: This REHS swam the English Channel twice last summer.

PANELIST #5

  • Birthday: May 24
  • Sign: Gemini 
  • Hometown: San Jose, CA
  • Hobby: Professional ventriloquist with their Barbie doll collection (their mouths don't move either).
  • Surprising: This REHS was a back-up dancer on Madonna's tour in 1986.

  PANELIST #6

  • Birthday:  December 7
  • Sign: Sagittarius 
  • Hometown: San Jose, CA
  • Hobby: Mutters sacred incantation in extinct Meso-American languages while excavating ancient rat middens.
  • Surprising: This REHS choose the alternate method of professional registration, septage judging. 

PANELIST #7

  • Birthday: October 5
  • Sign: Declined to reveal 
  • Hometown: Jacksonville, FL
  • hobby: Collects rare carbon dioxide isotopes from around the solar system.
  • Surprising: This REHS won a Nobel prize for manatee habitat restoration in 1979.
 Agenda 

 

Last updated: November 01, 2007


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Melissa Hoover-Hartwick: mhoover@ciwmb.ca.gov  (916) 341-6813