The event, a collaboration with the Western Placer Waste Management Authority, will look for new technologies and innovations that can repurpose trash into marketable goods.
For years, contractors and trash haulers in California have been accepting discarded fence posts, backyard deck planks and other chemically treated wood debris without giving it much thought.
Governor Gavin Newsom speaks with news reporters at Park de la Cruz Recreation Center on Friday, April 2, 2021 in San Diego about the San Diego s newest pop-up vaccination site in the City Heights neighborhood. Nelvin C. Cepeda/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP
That all came to an abrupt end earlier this year, courtesy of an unexpected veto by Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Last fall, Newsom vetoed Senate Bill 68, which would have allowed landfills to continue accepting hundreds of thousands of tons of treated wood waste â the remnants of railroad ties, decking materials, agricultural stakes and other wooden material that had been pre-treated with industrial chemicals to withstand the elements.