Jeff Ziegenbein

Jeff Ziegenbein is the Deputy Department Manager of Operations & Organics at the Inland Empire Utility Agency in Southern California, the source of the sludge compost re-bagged and sold by Kellogg Garden Products and figuring in the 2011 scandal involving Kellogg, EMA and Los Angeles organic school gardens. He is on the Board of Directors of the U.S. Composting Council and is currently the Coordinator of their 2011 International Compost Awareness Week May 1-7, 2011.

Contact and Description
Jeff Ziegenbein
 * c/o Inland Empire RegionalCompost Authority
 * 12645 Sixth Street
 * Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91739
 * Phone: (909) 993-1981
 * Web: http://www.iera.org

According to his membership description at the US Composting Council, "Inland Empire Regional Composting Authority operates the nation’s largest indoor composting facility,known as the Inland Empire Regional Composting Facility(IERCF). Developed and operated through a partnership between the Inland Empire Utilities Agency and the County Sanitation Districts of Los Angeles County, the facility processes over 200,000 tons of recycled products into high-quality compost. Feedstocks include biosolids, greenwaste and woodwaste."

Articles by Jeff Ziegenbein
Ziegenbein writes occasionally for BioCycle Magazine which promote growing food in sewage sludge, calling the sludge by the PR euphemism biosolids. He co-authored an extensive article on the Inland Empire Utility Agency with composting consultant and BioCycle contributing editor Rich Flammer. The article, "A MEGACOMPOSTING SUCCESS STORY," focused on the IEUA's success at creating SoilPro Products Premium Compost, a sewage sludge product sold to Kellogg Garden Products and other distributors and garden stores as "biosolids compost".

Articles and resources

 * "A Mega-Composting Success Story," BioCycle Magazine, July 2010. Accessed April 5, 2011.

Related SourceWatch articles

 * BioCycle
 * Inland Empire Utility Agency
 * U.S. Composting Council
 * Rich Flammer
 * SoilPro™ Products Premium Compost