California Compost Facility Receives $10M Grant to Expand, Increasing Capacity

The Yolo County Central Landfill and Northern Recycling LLC have announced they have received a $10 million grant from CalRecycle to expand their compost facility.

The state-of-the-art compost facility reached its capacity of 182,000 tons per year in its first year of operation. The expansion will increase the facility’s capacity by about 50,000 to 60,000 tons per year.

The $10 million grant comes from California’s Organics Grant Program under the California Climate Investments initiative. The initiative projects to divert an additional 600,000 tons of organic waste from landfills over the next 10 years. This result would reduce greenhouse gas emissions by an estimated 114,000 metric tons of CO2 equivalents during that time frame.

“Yolo County continues to demonstrate a strong commitment to our sustainability goals,” stated Chair of the Yolo County Board of Supervisors Lucas Frerichs. “Innovation in our operations at our publicly-owned landfill is consistently one of the bright spots in reducing Yolo County’s overall greenhouse gas emissions.”

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