Agromin offers S.B. 1383 compliance site

Agromin says its California Compost website has added a customer portal designed to enable California jurisdictions to assess, procure and track their recycled organic waste product usage for compliance with California S.B. 1383.

A procurement calculator on the site allows a jurisdiction to determine the quantity of products that must be acquired to meet its S.B. 1383 procurement requirements.

Using the portal, a jurisdiction can review Agromin’s roster of compost and mulch products; place and review orders; schedule deliveries; receive from Agromin customized procurement reports that can be submitted to CalRecycle; and access multi-year product discounts, thus securing product availability for future procurement needs.

“We wanted to make the process, from beginning to end, as easy as possible,” Agromin CEO Bill Camarillo says. “One of the challenges jurisdictions face is providing the state with the proper procurement documentation. For reporting purposes, Agromin procurement support staff prepare customized quarterly and annual reports that include procurement types and amounts. This lets jurisdictions know exactly how many tons they’ve acquired compared to what’s needed for SB 1383 compliance.”

"Agromin’s SB 1383 tracking service has been very helpful,” says Sarah Vaira, recycling supervisor for the city of Folsom, California. “It saves us the time of gathering the information ourselves." Folsom was one of the first to use CaliforniaCompost.net, Agromin says.

Agromin, based in Oxnard, California, says its products meet CalRecycle’s procurement requirements and its compost is Organics Materials Review Institute (OMRI) listed. “Our products are regularly tested by outside labs to ensure they meet the state’s requirements and are free of harmful materials, pathogens or weeds seeds,” Camarillo says. “We encourage jurisdictions to lock in procurement orders early. There is currently not enough compost available if all jurisdictions wanted to meet their procurement responsibilities through compost use.”

S.B. 1383 was signed into law in 2016 and went into effect Jan. 1.

Agromin makes soil products for farmers, government entities, landscapers and gardeners and receives more than 1.2 million tons of organic material annually. It uses what it calls a safe, natural and sustainable process to recycle the material into more than 300 soil products for landscape, agriculture, consumer and energy markets.