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California Waste Solutions Approaches 35 Years of Recycling and Global Environmental Infrastructure

The Oakland-headquartered, family-owned company serves more than 343,000 customers across Oakland and San Jose, operates six Bay Area facilities and extends its environmental infrastructure operations to Vietnam through Vietnam Waste Solutions

OAKLAND, Calif., Sept. 18, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — California Waste Solutions, Inc. (CWS) is approaching its 35th year as a leader in the international recycling, resource recovery and environmental infrastructure business with operations in California and Vietnam. Headquartered in Oakland, the company serves more than 343,000 customers across Oakland and San Jose and operates six Bay Area recycling facilities. Through its wholly owned subsidiary Vietnam Waste Solutions (VWS) it also manages large-scale waste infrastructure in Ho Chi Minh City.

California Waste Solutions Recycling Collection in San Jose, California
Image caption: California Waste Solutions Recycling Collection in San Jose, California.

“Approaching our 35-year milestone in business means more to us than just a number. It’s a testament to what immigrant entrepreneurs can achieve if they put time and work into their passions in this country,” said David Duong, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of California Waste Solutions.

David Duong founded California Waste Solutions in Oakland in 1992. The company received its first City of Oakland franchise in 1993 and has served Oakland continuously since. California Waste Solutions later expanded into San Jose while building a broader operating network around collection, processing, material recovery, customer service and the marketing of recovered commodities.

“When we started, we had eight used trucks and a family willing to work. That was it! The company is much larger today, but the responsibility and the mindset here has not changed. People count on us every week. We have to do the work safely, take care of our employees, serve our customers well, and keep finding better ways to recover materials instead of wasting them. It’s a community business at the end of the day,” said David Duong, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of California Waste Solutions.

California Waste Solutions now operates across two countries and manages the daily work behind municipal recycling systems that hundreds of thousands of residents and businesses rely on every week.

The scale of the company today is closely tied to David Duong’s own history. After arriving in the United States as a Vietnamese refugee, Duong and his family rebuilt their lives hrough the recycling business they already knew well, beginning again in California with recovered paper, cardboard and other recyclable materials. David Duong founded California Waste Solutions in Oakland in 1992 with eight used collection trucks and spent the following decades expanding the business through municipal recycling, material recovery and environmental infrastructure in Oakland and San Jose. He later brought that experience back to Vietnam through Vietnam Waste Solutions, where the family developed large-scale waste and environmental infrastructure serving Ho Chi Minh City. His path from refugee resettlement to building environmental businesses across the United States and Vietnam is also documented in The King of Trash, a film about David Duong, the Duong family and the experiences that shaped their work across both countries.

AN “INTEGRATED MUNICIPAL SERVICE OPERATING MODEL”

California Waste Solutions provides residential recycling collection in Oakland through Oakland Recycles and in San Jose through San Jose Recycles. The company also serves commercial customers, including manufacturers, offices, retailers, restaurants and multifamily properties.

Collection was where the family business began, and it remains the part of California Waste Solutions most visible to customers. But collection is only the first step in a larger system that includes sorting, processing, material recovery, logistics and commodity marketing.

After recyclable material reaches a processing facility, mixed loads are separated into usable streams of paper, cardboard, plastics, metals and glass. The materials are then prepared to meet the specifications of mills, processors and other buyers before they can return to manufacturing facilities.

That process depends on an operating network that reaches well beyond the curb. Drivers manage collection routes. Mechanics keep trucks and processing equipment in service. Facility teams operate conveyors and sorting systems, remove unwanted material and monitor quality. Customer service employees work with residents, businesses and property managers. Supervisors coordinate people, equipment, safety requirements and daily service performance.

For a municipal recycling operator, scale matters only when the system works together as a single unit. A route completed on time can still create problems if material is poorly sorted downstream. Processing capacity has little value if equipment is unreliable. Technology adds little if employees cannot use the information it provides. California Waste Solutions has built its operating model around the connection between collection, processing, service and material recovery.

“What we’ve developed here at California Waste Solutions can be best described as a tightly-knit integrated municipal operating model. Waste collection and recycling is a community business and communities don’t work in linear ways. People throw out different things at different times in the year, and they’re not always predictable in their habits. Technologies change over time too. Three decades ago people used to throw out videotapes and cassettes; today they throw out smartphones. The nature of what you’re recycling isn’t always the same, but by building a system that accounts for these changes, we’ve been able to consistently improve the quality of our output,” said David Duong, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of California Waste Solutions.

Nearly 35 years after David Duong founded California Waste Solutions, the company remains family-owned and operated, with the next generation now holding leadership responsibilities across the business. Michael Duong serves as President, Johnny Duong as Chief Operating Officer, Kristina Duong as Chief Financial Officer and Victor Duong as Executive Vice President of Public Affairs. Their roles span operations, finance, public affairs, municipal relationships and long-term planning, giving the company continuity between the business David Duong built in Oakland and the organization now operating across California and Vietnam. The leadership structure reflects years of the next generation working inside the business alongside David Duong rather than a sudden transfer of responsibility.

REINVESTING IN SAFETY, SYSTEMS AND OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE

The recycling industry has undergone enormous changes since California Waste Solutions began operating in 1992. Material streams are more complex, commodity specifications are tighter, cities expect greater visibility into service performance, and batteries and electronic devices have created new safety risks for collection vehicles and processing facilities.

California Waste Solutions has continued to reinvest in the systems behind its daily operations every year. The company has invested more than $2 million in upgrades to current operating systems designed to improve coordination, efficiency, safety and service performance across collection and processing activities during the time it has been in business.

Safety technology is another area of constant focus. California Waste Solutions is evaluating infrared cameras, smoke and heat detection systems and fire-extinguishing components for collection vehicles to improve early detection and response when batteries or other hazardous materials enter collection vehicles or processing facilities. The company is also evaluating electric and lower-emission collection vehicles as part of its longer-term fleet planning.

Inside its recycling facilities, California Waste Solutions continues to modernize sorting and processing systems while giving employees better information about material flow and equipment performance. The objective is to identify problems earlier, respond faster and improve the consistency of the operation without separating technology from the people responsible for using it.

INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS THROUGH VIETNAM WASTE SOLUTIONS

California Waste Solutions operates internationally through Vietnam Waste Solutions, its wholly owned subsidiary in Vietnam. Vietnam Waste Solutions develops and operates integrated waste management infrastructure, extending the company’s experience from municipal recycling in Northern California to large-scale environmental systems serving Ho Chi Minh City.

At the center of that international operation is the Da Phuoc Integrated Solid Waste Facility (DPI) in Ho Chi Minh City. The 341-acre facility receives more than 6,500 tons of waste per day and handles approximately 2.4 million tons annually. Da Phuoc is Southeast Asia’s first and only integrated solid waste facility and Vietnam’s largest landfill operation. A World Bank environmental assessment has also described the Da Phuoc complex as Vietnam’s largest solid waste processing complex.

Da Phuoc combines recycling and material recovery, sanitary landfill management, composting, industrial leachate and wastewater treatment, treated-water reuse, landfill-gas collection and electricity generation within one operating complex. Those systems were developed over time to manage not only where municipal waste is placed, but also what can be recovered from it and how the water and gas produced by landfill operations are controlled.

The Da Phuoc landfill dates back more than two decades. As relations between Vietnam and the United States normalized in the 1990s, Ho Chi Minh City began looking for more advanced approaches to municipal waste treatment. California Waste Solutions agreed to develop the project under a structure that gave the company ownership of the facility and required it to be built to U.S. environmental standards.

Building Da Phuoc to U.S.-standard environmental requirements meant investing in engineered liner systems, dedicated leachate and wastewater treatment, landfill-gas collection and other controls that went well beyond the cost of a conventional disposal site. For David Duong, that additional investment was essential to creating a facility designed to serve Ho Chi Minh City reliably for decades.

Da Phuoc became one of the first major catalysts for Vietnam’s new energy-efficiency in an economy that is growing at nearly 8% a year.

“California Waste Solutions and Vietnam Waste Solutions became overnight pioneers in clean, renewable energy and in installing best-of-breed American and European technologies in Vietnam at the very start of the country’s huge growth curve,” said David Duong, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of California Waste Solutions. “Because we were using American technology and know-how we were able to effectively plan for Ho Chi Minh City’s growth decades ahead of time.”

Today, only one American employee remains on the ground, while the operation is run overwhelmingly by Vietnamese engineers, employees and technical personnel. Da Phuoc remains the only landfill in Vietnam developed to U.S. Subtitle D standards, according to company records, and its landfill-gas recovery and environmental systems support Vietnam’s broader efforts to improve waste management and reduce greenhouse-gas emissions on the path toward net zero by 2050.

For California Waste Solutions, Vietnam Waste Solutions represented a significant expansion of the business David Duong had built in Northern California. The collection routes and material recovery facilities in Oakland and San Jose operate in a different environment from Da Phuoc, but both businesses depend on the same operating fundamentals: reliable infrastructure, material recovery, environmental controls and systems capable of performing every day at city scale. Through Vietnam Waste Solutions, that experience expanded into sanitary landfill engineering, recycling, composting, leachate and wastewater treatment, landfill-gas recovery and energy generation. Da Phuoc gave California Waste Solutions experience managing environmental infrastructure at a scale far beyond a conventional recycling operation.

Together, the California and Vietnam operations give California Waste Solutions experience across the full chain of environmental services, from neighborhood collection and material recovery to integrated waste infrastructure. That international operating footprint has become a defining part of the company as it approaches its 35th year.

A COMMUNITY RELATIONSHIP THAT GOES BEYOND COLLECTION

Long-term municipal service also requires communication outside the truck and the processing facility. Residents, property managers, schools and other institutions need clear guidance on which materials belong in recycling and which require another collection or disposal route.

California Waste Solutions produces recycling guides, multilingual communications, property-manager resources and conducts school visits and public outreach. Recent activities have included the Lakeshore Street Festival in Oakland, the Oakland Housing Authority Summer Block Party and recycling education with a local Daisy Scout troop. The company also participates in programs serving seniors, young people and multifamily communities.

“Good recycling service is not only about picking up a cart,” said Michael Duong, President of California Waste Solutions. “It is also about helping people understand what belongs in that cart and why it matters. Our employees, city partners, residents and businesses are all part of the same system. The company’s operations and the community which they serve are co-dependent in that way. That’s why we value our place in the local community so much.”

The same operating logic is behind a planned residential household battery recycling program in San Jose for 2027. California Waste Solutions is collaborating with the City of San Jose on a service intended to make household battery recycling easier while keeping batteries out of the conventional recycling stream, where damaged or improperly handled batteries can create serious fire risks.

The company’s community record also extends beyond recycling education. In December 2024, David Duong committed $5 million to the scholarship fund at Fulbright University Vietnam in Ho Chi Minh City through Vietnam Waste Solutions. One million dollars has been contributed, with the remaining $4 million structured as a matching commitment intended to encourage additional donations and expand financial aid for students facing financial hardship.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, a manufacturing operation established in Vietnam produced masks and hand sanitizer that were distributed in California through local governments and community organizations. Millions of units were donated, and the Duong family also sent 1,200 oxygen concentrators to hospitals in Vietnam. Other support has included Vietnamese language and culture schools, assistance for California cancer patients, humanitarian relief following Typhoon Yagi in northern Vietnam and support for the Oakland Dynamites youth football program.

These programs are separate from California Waste Solutions’ municipal service work, but they reflect the company’s long-term presence in the places where it operates. The business has grown across California and Vietnam, and so has the scale of the responsibilities it has chosen to take on outside its core operations.

APPROACHING 35 YEARS WITH A LARGER OPERATING FOOTPRINT

California Waste Solutions will mark its 35th anniversary in 2027. The milestone comes at a time when recycling and waste management are becoming more demanding operational businesses. Cities expect reliable service, stronger safety systems, more accurate data and continued investment in infrastructure capable of handling changing material streams.

California Waste Solutions enters its mid-thirties chapter with six Bay Area facilities and more than 343,000 customers across Oakland and San Jose. Its international operations in Vietnam extend that experience into large-scale environmental infrastructure.

The company that began in Oakland in 1992 is now responsible for a much larger system. Its future will be judged the same way its municipal work has always been judged: by whether it performs safely, consistently and over time.

ABOUT CALIFORNIA WASTE SOLUTIONS

California Waste Solutions, Inc. is a family-owned and operated recycling, resource recovery and environmental infrastructure company headquartered in Oakland, California. Founded in 1992 by David Duong, the company provides recycling collection, processing, customer service and material recovery services for residential, commercial and municipal customers in Northern California, including Oakland and San Jose. California Waste Solutions operates six Bay Area recycling facilities and serves more than 343,000 customers. The company also operates internationally through its wholly owned subsidiary, Vietnam Waste Solutions, which manages the Da Phuoc Integrated Solid Waste Facility in Ho Chi Minh City. https://www.calwaste.com/

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California Waste Solutions Inc. (CWS) Approaches 35 Years of U.S. Recycling and Global Environmental Infrastructure

The Oakland-based, family-owned company serves more than 343,000 customers across Oakland and San Jose, operates six Bay Area facilities and extends its environmental infrastructure operations to Vietnam through Vietnam Waste Solutions

OAKLAND, Calif., Sept. 18, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — California Waste Solutions, Inc. (CWS) is approaching its 35th year as a leader in the international recycling, resource recovery and environmental infrastructure business with operations in California and Vietnam. Headquartered in Oakland, the company serves more than 343,000 customers across Oakland and San Jose and operates six Bay Area recycling facilities. Through its wholly owned subsidiary Vietnam Waste Solutions (VWS) it also manages large-scale waste infrastructure in Ho Chi Minh City.

California Waste Solutions Recycling Collection in San Jose, California
Image caption: California Waste Solutions Recycling Collection in San Jose, California.

“Approaching our 35-year milestone in business means more to us than just a number. It’s a testament to what immigrant entrepreneurs can achieve if they put time and work into their passions in this country,” said David Duong, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of California Waste Solutions.

David Duong founded California Waste Solutions in Oakland in 1992. The company received its first City of Oakland franchise in 1993 and has served Oakland continuously since. California Waste Solutions later expanded into San Jose while building a broader operating network around collection, processing, material recovery, customer service and the marketing of recovered commodities.

“When we started, we had eight used trucks and a family willing to work. That was it! The company is much larger today, but the responsibility and the mindset here has not changed. People count on us every week. We have to do the work safely, take care of our employees, serve our customers well, and keep finding better ways to recover materials instead of wasting them. It’s a community business at the end of the day,” said David Duong, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of California Waste Solutions.

California Waste Solutions now operates across two countries and manages the daily work behind municipal recycling systems that hundreds of thousands of residents and businesses rely on every week.

The scale of the company today is closely tied to David Duong’s own history. After arriving in the United States as a Vietnamese refugee, Duong and his family rebuilt their lives hrough the recycling business they already knew well, beginning again in California with recovered paper, cardboard and other recyclable materials. David Duong founded California Waste Solutions in Oakland in 1992 with eight used collection trucks and spent the following decades expanding the business through municipal recycling, material recovery and environmental infrastructure in Oakland and San Jose. He later brought that experience back to Vietnam through Vietnam Waste Solutions, where the family developed large-scale waste and environmental infrastructure serving Ho Chi Minh City. His path from refugee resettlement to building environmental businesses across the United States and Vietnam is also documented in The King of Trash, a film about David Duong, the Duong family and the experiences that shaped their work across both countries.

AN “INTEGRATED MUNICIPAL SERVICE OPERATING MODEL”

California Waste Solutions provides residential recycling collection in Oakland through Oakland Recycles and in San Jose through San Jose Recycles. The company also serves commercial customers, including manufacturers, offices, retailers, restaurants and multifamily properties.

Collection was where the family business began, and it remains the part of California Waste Solutions most visible to customers. But collection is only the first step in a larger system that includes sorting, processing, material recovery, logistics and commodity marketing.

After recyclable material reaches a processing facility, mixed loads are separated into usable streams of paper, cardboard, plastics, metals and glass. The materials are then prepared to meet the specifications of mills, processors and other buyers before they can return to manufacturing facilities.

That process depends on an operating network that reaches well beyond the curb. Drivers manage collection routes. Mechanics keep trucks and processing equipment in service. Facility teams operate conveyors and sorting systems, remove unwanted material and monitor quality. Customer service employees work with residents, businesses and property managers. Supervisors coordinate people, equipment, safety requirements and daily service performance.

For a municipal recycling operator, scale matters only when the system works together as a single unit. A route completed on time can still create problems if material is poorly sorted downstream. Processing capacity has little value if equipment is unreliable. Technology adds little if employees cannot use the information it provides. California Waste Solutions has built its operating model around the connection between collection, processing, service and material recovery.

“What we’ve developed here at California Waste Solutions can be best described as a tightly-knit integrated municipal operating model. Waste collection and recycling is a community business and communities don’t work in linear ways. People throw out different things at different times in the year, and they’re not always predictable in their habits. Technologies change over time too. Three decades ago people used to throw out videotapes and cassettes; today they throw out smartphones. The nature of what you’re recycling isn’t always the same, but by building a system that accounts for these changes, we’ve been able to consistently improve the quality of our output,” said David Duong, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of California Waste Solutions.

Nearly 35 years after David Duong founded California Waste Solutions, the company remains family-owned and operated, with the next generation now holding leadership responsibilities across the business. Michael Duong serves as President, Johnny Duong as Chief Operating Officer, Kristina Duong as Chief Financial Officer and Victor Duong as Executive Vice President of Public Affairs. Their roles span operations, finance, public affairs, municipal relationships and long-term planning, giving the company continuity between the business David Duong built in Oakland and the organization now operating across California and Vietnam. The leadership structure reflects years of the next generation working inside the business alongside David Duong rather than a sudden transfer of responsibility.

REINVESTING IN SAFETY, SYSTEMS AND OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE

The recycling industry has undergone enormous changes since California Waste Solutions began operating in 1992. Material streams are more complex, commodity specifications are tighter, cities expect greater visibility into service performance, and batteries and electronic devices have created new safety risks for collection vehicles and processing facilities.

California Waste Solutions has continued to reinvest in the systems behind its daily operations every year. The company has invested more than $2 million in upgrades to current operating systems designed to improve coordination, efficiency, safety and service performance across collection and processing activities during the time it has been in business.

Safety technology is another area of constant focus. California Waste Solutions is evaluating infrared cameras, smoke and heat detection systems and fire-extinguishing components for collection vehicles to improve early detection and response when batteries or other hazardous materials enter collection vehicles or processing facilities. The company is also evaluating electric and lower-emission collection vehicles as part of its longer-term fleet planning.

Inside its recycling facilities, California Waste Solutions continues to modernize sorting and processing systems while giving employees better information about material flow and equipment performance. The objective is to identify problems earlier, respond faster and improve the consistency of the operation without separating technology from the people responsible for using it.

INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS THROUGH VIETNAM WASTE SOLUTIONS

California Waste Solutions operates internationally through Vietnam Waste Solutions, its wholly owned subsidiary in Vietnam. Vietnam Waste Solutions develops and operates integrated waste management infrastructure, extending the company’s experience from municipal recycling in Northern California to large-scale environmental systems serving Ho Chi Minh City.

At the center of that international operation is the Da Phuoc Integrated Solid Waste Facility (DPI) in Ho Chi Minh City. The 341-acre facility receives more than 6,500 tons of waste per day and handles approximately 2.4 million tons annually. Da Phuoc is Southeast Asia’s first and only integrated solid waste facility and Vietnam’s largest landfill operation. A World Bank environmental assessment has also described the Da Phuoc complex as Vietnam’s largest solid waste processing complex.

Da Phuoc combines recycling and material recovery, sanitary landfill management, composting, industrial leachate and wastewater treatment, treated-water reuse, landfill-gas collection and electricity generation within one operating complex. Those systems were developed over time to manage not only where municipal waste is placed, but also what can be recovered from it and how the water and gas produced by landfill operations are controlled.

The Da Phuoc landfill dates back more than two decades. As relations between Vietnam and the United States normalized in the 1990s, Ho Chi Minh City began looking for more advanced approaches to municipal waste treatment. California Waste Solutions agreed to develop the project under a structure that gave the company ownership of the facility and required it to be built to U.S. environmental standards.

Building Da Phuoc to U.S.-standard environmental requirements meant investing in engineered liner systems, dedicated leachate and wastewater treatment, landfill-gas collection and other controls that went well beyond the cost of a conventional disposal site. For David Duong, that additional investment was essential to creating a facility designed to serve Ho Chi Minh City reliably for decades.

Da Phuoc became one of the first major catalysts for Vietnam’s new energy-efficiency in an economy that is growing at nearly 8% a year.

“California Waste Solutions and Vietnam Waste Solutions became overnight pioneers in clean, renewable energy and in installing best-of-breed American and European technologies in Vietnam at the very start of the country’s huge growth curve,” said David Duong, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of California Waste Solutions. “Because we were using American technology and know-how we were able to effectively plan for Ho Chi Minh City’s growth decades ahead of time.”

Today, only one American employee remains on the ground, while the operation is run overwhelmingly by Vietnamese engineers, employees and technical personnel. Da Phuoc remains the only landfill in Vietnam developed to U.S. Subtitle D standards, according to company records, and its landfill-gas recovery and environmental systems support Vietnam’s broader efforts to improve waste management and reduce greenhouse-gas emissions on the path toward net zero by 2050.

For California Waste Solutions, Vietnam Waste Solutions represented a significant expansion of the business David Duong had built in Northern California. The collection routes and material recovery facilities in Oakland and San Jose operate in a different environment from Da Phuoc, but both businesses depend on the same operating fundamentals: reliable infrastructure, material recovery, environmental controls and systems capable of performing every day at city scale. Through Vietnam Waste Solutions, that experience expanded into sanitary landfill engineering, recycling, composting, leachate and wastewater treatment, landfill-gas recovery and energy generation. Da Phuoc gave California Waste Solutions experience managing environmental infrastructure at a scale far beyond a conventional recycling operation.

Together, the California and Vietnam operations give California Waste Solutions experience across the full chain of environmental services, from neighborhood collection and material recovery to integrated waste infrastructure. That international operating footprint has become a defining part of the company as it approaches its 35th year.

A COMMUNITY RELATIONSHIP THAT GOES BEYOND COLLECTION

Long-term municipal service also requires communication outside the truck and the processing facility. Residents, property managers, schools and other institutions need clear guidance on which materials belong in recycling and which require another collection or disposal route.

California Waste Solutions produces recycling guides, multilingual communications, property-manager resources and conducts school visits and public outreach. Recent activities have included the Lakeshore Street Festival in Oakland, the Oakland Housing Authority Summer Block Party and recycling education with a local Daisy Scout troop. The company also participates in programs serving seniors, young people and multifamily communities.

“Good recycling service is not only about picking up a cart,” said Michael Duong, President of California Waste Solutions. “It is also about helping people understand what belongs in that cart and why it matters. Our employees, city partners, residents and businesses are all part of the same system. The company’s operations and the community which they serve are co-dependent in that way. That’s why we value our place in the local community so much.”

The same operating logic is behind a planned residential household battery recycling program in San Jose for 2027. California Waste Solutions is collaborating with the City of San Jose on a service intended to make household battery recycling easier while keeping batteries out of the conventional recycling stream, where damaged or improperly handled batteries can create serious fire risks.

The company’s community record also extends beyond recycling education. In December 2024, David Duong committed $5 million to the scholarship fund at Fulbright University Vietnam in Ho Chi Minh City through Vietnam Waste Solutions. One million dollars has been contributed, with the remaining $4 million structured as a matching commitment intended to encourage additional donations and expand financial aid for students facing financial hardship.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, a manufacturing operation established in Vietnam produced masks and hand sanitizer that were distributed in California through local governments and community organizations. Millions of units were donated, and the Duong family also sent 1,200 oxygen concentrators to hospitals in Vietnam. Other support has included Vietnamese language and culture schools, assistance for California cancer patients, humanitarian relief following Typhoon Yagi in northern Vietnam and support for the Oakland Dynamites youth football program.

These programs are separate from California Waste Solutions’ municipal service work, but they reflect the company’s long-term presence in the places where it operates. The business has grown across California and Vietnam, and so has the scale of the responsibilities it has chosen to take on outside its core operations.

APPROACHING 35 YEARS WITH A LARGER OPERATING FOOTPRINT

California Waste Solutions will mark its 35th anniversary in 2027. The milestone comes at a time when recycling and waste management are becoming more demanding operational businesses. Cities expect reliable service, stronger safety systems, more accurate data and continued investment in infrastructure capable of handling changing material streams.

California Waste Solutions enters its mid-thirties chapter with six Bay Area facilities and more than 343,000 customers across Oakland and San Jose. Its international operations in Vietnam extend that experience into large-scale environmental infrastructure.

The company that began in Oakland in 1992 is now responsible for a much larger system. Its future will be judged the same way its municipal work has always been judged: by whether it performs safely, consistently and over time.

ABOUT CALIFORNIA WASTE SOLUTIONS

California Waste Solutions, Inc. is a family-owned and operated recycling, resource recovery and environmental infrastructure company headquartered in Oakland, California. Founded in 1992 by David Duong, the company provides recycling collection, processing, customer service and material recovery services for residential, commercial and municipal customers in Northern California, including Oakland and San Jose. California Waste Solutions operates six Bay Area recycling facilities and serves more than 343,000 customers. The company also operates internationally through its wholly owned subsidiary, Vietnam Waste Solutions, which manages the Da Phuoc Integrated Solid Waste Facility in Ho Chi Minh City. https://www.calwaste.com/

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California Waste Solutions
Wendynguyen@calwaste.com
+1 (415) 740 1580

NEWS SOURCE: California Waste Solutions


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Media Lauds Movie About Leading Vietnamese American Green Entrepreneur David Duong as Tickets Sell Out for Upcoming Screenings of ‘The King of Trash’

The founder of California Waste Solutions and his family are the stars of a new documentary that has sold out additional screenings across Bay Area and San Jose box offices this September

OAKLAND, Calif., Sept. 15, 2026 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — David Duong, the charismatic entrepreneur whose family built California Waste Solutions after arriving in San Francisco as refugees, is the star of a new documentary, “The King of Trash,” that has drawn strong reviews and is now returning to California theaters. Tickets for Bay Area and San Jose showings sold out in August after heavy demand from movie-goers and the local community.

David Duong speaking to attendees at 'The King of Trash' screening at the United States Navy Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Image caption: David Duong speaking to attendees at ‘The King of Trash’ screening at the United States Navy Memorial in Washington, D.C.

New screenings are scheduled in Hayward, Dublin, San Jose and Emeryville between Sept. 12 and Oct. 3. Nearly 1,000 people have registered or joined waiting lists across the four events, according to the production team.

“The King of Trash” is returning after an eight-city U.S. pre-screening tour that drew more than 5,000 attendees in San Jose, Oakland, Sacramento, Orange County, Dallas, Houston, Washington, D.C., and Orlando. The events brought together business leaders, community organizations, California Waste Solutions employees, families and members of the Vietnamese American community.

The Sept. 26 program at AMC Eastridge in San Jose will serve as the final VIP pre-screening, where audiences will have an opportunity to meet Duong, members of the cast and director Errol Webber. The film has also been selected for the 2026 San Francisco International New Concept Film Festival and The Red Rock Film Festival.

For some viewers, the documentary offers a window into a refugee experience they may know little about. For others, particularly immigrant and refugee families, the story reflects experiences closer to their own: parents beginning again in an unfamiliar country, children growing up between generations, and businesses built not simply as enterprises but as sources of stability for entire families.

The Duongs arrived with little material wealth but with knowledge accumulated over generations in the recovered-paper trade. In San Francisco, discarded cardboard became one of the first resources they could turn into income. Those beginnings eventually led to California Waste Solutions, creating jobs and establishing a recycling operation that today serves communities across Oakland and San Jose.

A RARE GLIMPSE INTO ONE OF AMERICA’S BIGGEST IMMIGRANT SUCCESS STORIES

“The King of Trash” offers viewers a rare glimpse into the mind of one of America’s leading green entrepreneurs.

In the movie, Duong cuts a pragmatic and benevolent figure, building a company that began with a handful of family members into an operation employing thousands of blue-collar workers in California and contributing environmental benefits to his local community.

“We started a business with one pick-up truck, getting a contract with Oakland and expanding that to a contract in San Jose and then getting a massive 50-year contract in Vietnam for waste handling for 7,500 tons per day. Next I want to take this company bigger so we can grow more and be helping more in society,” Duong tells the filmmakers in “The King of Trash.”

San Francisco has long been the subject of criticism for its homeless and waste problems. Duong was one of the few entrepreneurs who tackled the task head on along with his siblings, parents and wider family. At the time of the company’s founding, Michael Duong was only around 10 years old, while sons Danny Duong and Andy Duong hadn’t yet been born. Victor Duong tagged along in toe.

A JOURNEY THAT BEGAN WITH SURVIVAL

The movie opens with the Duong family in 1960s and 1970s Vietnam, when their property and recycling plants were lost after the fall of Saigon. Twenty-three relatives boarded a small boat and fled by sea. Survival itself was not guaranteed.

“We almost died out there in the ocean. We had only one choice: survive,” Duong recalls in the film.

The family reached a refugee camp in the Philippines and spent about a year there before they were admitted to the United States. San Francisco became their new home. Sixteen relatives crowded into two small studio apartments in the Tenderloin.

“We flew to San Francisco. My parents tried to go to a non-profit organization to ask for help to rent a place. I remember at the time that we went to Goodwill and my parents brought some of the bunkbeds, and then we put them together in two apartment studios for 16 of us that were living there,” Duong says in the movie.

Finding themselves with little work or outside support, the Duongs collected cardboard, office paper, aluminum cans and other recyclable materials from San Francisco streets and businesses. They sorted what still had value, sold the recovered material and used the income to help support the household. By the end of the 1980s, the family had acquired seven trucks and the business began to thrive, earning them a contract from the city of Oakland.

“We went to San Francisco downtown where there’s these beautiful buildings. My parents went through one of the buildings where there is this white office paper and they take out aluminum cans. They said, ‘this is gold,'” Duong says in the movie.

Those words help explain the meaning behind “The King of Trash.” The family was not learning recycling for the first time in America. They were using knowledge carried from a previous life to survive in a new one. Over time that work helped create economic stability. The family established CoGiDo Paper Corporation in Oakland, followed later by California Waste Solutions.

Ironically, given the family’s former bitter experiences with Vietnam, they later invested in and founded Ho Chi Minh City’s largest waste-disposal business. Vietnam Waste Solutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of California Waste Solutions launched in 2005, handles more than 6,000 tons of waste per day. The movie depicts that construction in detail, showing how they built the city’s largest American-standard waste-disposal facility and began tackling Vietnam’s environmental challenges from the ground up.

“We came here to America with bare hands and we started collecting trash on the street. We’d open all the garbage bags and go through them and pick out all the recycled materials, sell, and build ourselves up. With $700 to start with, now we have a few billion-dollar contracts between here, the Bay Area and Vietnam. This is the country with opportunity, but you have to work hard for it,” Duong tells a forum of young San Jose entrepreneurs in the movie.

STRONG CRITICAL RECEPTION

The film was screened this weekend at Cinemark Century in Hayward to rave reviews from attendees.

“What I found so inspiring was the message that family is at the center of everything in David Duong’s life and in the fabric of CWS,” said Emily 27, from San Francisco.

“’The King of Trash’ was crazy. It’s hard to believe it’s a true story, and yet it is!” said Brad, 35, from Oakland.

“I would definitely watch it again! I want this on Netflix!” said Rob, 29, from the East Bay Area.

What’s so powerful about “The King of Trash,” according to critics, is that it tells the true story of the Duong family’s rise in America without rhetorical flourish or exaggeration.

“The film is about family resilience — a ubiquitous ideal among the thousands of people who left their old lives behind in Vietnam at great personal risk after the 1975 Fall of Saigon … After a year sustained on rations, the family won passage to San Francisco, cramming 16 relatives into two tiny studio apartments in the Tenderloin. From there, the family would scour the city streets for cardboard and other recyclable materials. The children worked too, after school through midnight,” wrote Brandon Pho in the San Jose Spotlight.

“In interviews, Cal Waste Solutions truck drivers and executives wax reverent about their CEO who made a recycling empire out of nothing,” Pho wrote.

“At its core, ‘The King of Trash’’s story is ultimately about turning hardship into long-term community improvement. The Duong family’s businesses are guided by the simple principle that nothing, and no one, should ever be wasted,” wrote Tom White in The Front Row Daily.

Other reviewers pointed to Duong’s influence on the green economy in both America and Asia.

“Today, David is preparing his family’s business for the long term. He has ambitions to take the company public, expanding its impact in California and Vietnam. Furthermore, he works to ensure that California Waste Solutions and Vietnam Waste Solutions remain aligned with future sustainability demands and global environmental standards,” wrote California Waste Solutions’ Wendy Nguyen in The Hype Magazine.

In one scene, Duong explains how California Waste Solutions lends struggling and start-up families money to purchase trucks of their own and gives them training to find profitable routes. This, he says, comes from his experience as a struggling refugee starting his own business.

“I always said even all that time ago that one day I would have my own recycling facility and I would help people like us. I would treat them fairly,” Duong tells the filmmakers.

Nguyen summed it up in a comment about Duong’s late father, who never got to see the Vietnam facility built but advised it would be a good venture to pursue: “Through difficulty, he taught his family that nothing should be wasted: not materials, not opportunity, not potential.”

AUDIENCE DEMAND BRINGS THE FILM BACK TO NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

Demand continued after the first tour ended. Bay Area residents who missed previous screenings contacted the production team seeking another opportunity to see the film, while some earlier attendees wanted to return with parents, children and friends.

The next screenings are:

Dublin: Saturday, Sept. 19, 2026, Regal Hacienda Crossings, 5 to 7 p.m.

San Jose: Final VIP pre-screening, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2026, AMC Eastridge, 4 to 8 p.m. Audiences will have an opportunity to meet David Duong, members of the cast and director Errol Webber.

Emeryville: Saturday, Oct. 3, 2026, AMC Bay Street Emeryville, 5 to 8 p.m.

The Bay Area is where the Duong family rebuilt its life after arriving in America, and San Jose is home to one of the country’s largest Vietnamese American communities. For many of those families, the history portrayed in “The King of Trash” is not distant history. It belongs to people they know.

ABOUT “THE KING OF TRASH”

“The King of Trash” is a 72-minute documentary that uses the experience of Vietnamese American entrepreneur David Duong and the Duong family to tell a broader story about refugee displacement, immigration, family, work and rebuilding a life in America. Beginning with the fall of Saigon, the film follows the family’s escape from Vietnam by sea, about a year in a refugee camp in the Philippines and their resettlement in San Francisco. It then traces the decades of work that followed, including the family history behind California Waste Solutions ( https://www.calwaste.com/ ) and Vietnam Waste Solutions ( https://vnwaste.com/ ).

For screening information, the official trailer and film updates, visit https://www.thekingoftrash.us/.

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Champion Women and Advocacy Groups File Amicus Brief in Ninth Circuit Challenging NCAA Settlement That Entrenches Inequity and Silences Athletes’ Voices

OAKLAND, Calif., Nov. 12, 2025 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Champion Women, together with Wrestle Like A Girl, the Women’s Golf Coaches Association, and the Women’s Sports Policy Working Group, announced today that they have filed an amicus curiae brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in In re College Athlete NIL Litigation (No. 25-4190). According to Liberty Law, Inc., the filing supports a slew of objectors challenging the NCAA’s proposed $2.8 billion settlement, arguing that it perpetuates systemic inequities, suppresses athlete compensation, and strips athletes, particularly women and those in Olympic and non-revenue sports, of fair representation.

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The amici warn that the settlement is not the “historic breakthrough” it has been portrayed to be, but rather is a deal that institutionalizes inequality. It binds nearly 400,000 current and former college athletes into one massive class action, negotiated by a single group of lawyers without independent or conflict-free counsel. Under the settlement, men’s football and basketball players receive more than 95% of the settlement funds, while athletes in 42 other NCAA sports, representing the overwhelming majority of Division I competitors, share less than 5% of the paltry settlement but are required to release all of their legal claims.

“This is not progress — it’s the preservation of the same inequities that have defined college sports for decades,” said Nancy Hogshead, Olympic gold medalist and founder of Champion Women. “The NCAA and class counsel have created a settlement that looks like reform but, in reality, leaves women athletes and most college sports behind.”

The amicus brief cites landmark Supreme Court precedents, Amchem Products, Inc. v. Windsor and Ortiz v. Fibreboard Corp., and the Third Circuit’s recent Murray decision, which all reaffirm that when class members have divergent interests, the law requires separate representation and conflict-free counsel. With 46 NCAA sports effectively competing for the same limited pool, the settlement exposes these conflicts, granting 95% of the proceeds to men’s football and basketball while providing minimal relief to women and athletes in non-revenue sports. The amici argue that this structure violates established class-action safeguards and fails to deliver the fairness the law demands.

Led by attorneys Gerson H. Smoger, JD., PhD. (Smoger & Associates), Micha Star Liberty (Liberty Law, Inc.), and David Arbogast (Arbogast Law), the amici call for the Ninth Circuit to remand the case to the district court with instructions to require separate, conflict-free counsel and dedicated representatives for women athletes and other underrepresented groups.

“True reform means every athlete, regardless of gender or sport, has an advocate fighting for their interests,” said attorney Micha Star Liberty. “This case is a turning point — the Ninth Circuit has the chance to decide whether college sports move toward equality or remain entrenched in the same systemic imbalance.”

Champion Women, Wrestle Like A Girl, the Women’s Golf Coaches Association, and the Women’s Sports Policy Working Group joined forces in this filing to stand for fairness, representation, and equality in collegiate athletics — principles that must finally extend to every athlete, in every sport.

The amicus brief was filed on November 10, 2025, and is available on the Ninth Circuit’s docket for In re College Athlete NIL Litigation (No. 25-4190).

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Adax MAVCP (Multipath Aerial Vehicle Control Protocol) elevates drone survival and mission success to unprecedented levels

OAKLAND, Calif., June 24, 2025 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Adax Inc. announces a new control and communications protocol for drones and UAV’s that greatly enhances drone survival in hostile environments where they are being shot down because of excessive radio communications.

The mission is still completed with robust and timely packet delivery because of MAVCP's multiple paths through the mesh and rapid error recovery.
Image caption: (Figure 1): Here is what it looks like when you are under attack. Many nodes and drones are lost. The mission is still completed with robust and timely packet delivery because of MAVCP’s multiple paths through the mesh and rapid error recovery. The mission is a success.

Adax MAVCP (Multipath Aerial Vehicle Control Protocol) is designed for drone survival in hostile environments producing greater likelihood of mission success. MAVCP is industry-changing, real-time, error-correcting middleware layer advance for drone control and survival in mesh networks. The loss of drones in hostile environments is an urgent problem for drone users. One source of losses is excessive transmissions by drones, especially those operating with a mesh network. Loss of mesh nodes can disrupt drone communication, especially if multiple mesh nodes are being jammed or lost affecting the mesh network’s ability to self-heal. The radio signals from the drones and mesh nodes are readily detected by adversaries and are used to track and destroy or jam the drone and the mesh network nodes.

“Drones are being shot down because they chatter too much. During engagements, their mesh nodes are being jammed or destroyed and leads to them overrunning their targets. Our new middleware solution solves both of these problems,” stated Cooper Kirby, Senior Engineer at Adax.

MAVCP is a superior transport layer upgrade (middleware) that can be easily integrated with existing applications for drone control. With Adax MAVCP, a drone survives jamming of multiple mesh nodes or destructive node losses while maintaining real-time communication performance. The amount of radio traffic is minimized for enhanced stealth, yet MAVCP still achieves best in class, fastest recovery of lost or dropped packets even in hostile environments. Using built-in stealth modes, it lowers the exposure of drones to counter-attack significantly. It provides more robust real-time communication with devices in motion such as drones or vehicles. It works well for delivering packets to distant corners of the network subject to drops and slow delivery. MAVCP helps to finish critical missions successfully.

Adax MAVCP with new AI enhancements provides these features and more, such as durable anti-hijacking, message authentication, and data encryption. It provides a robust self-healing and secure solution for greater reliability and timely data delivery. This is the first time such advanced and self-healing AI features are available with a rigorous and well-defined protocol. It is ideal for noisy, distant, or unreliable network environments such as radio links or noisy networks. With its rapid detection of packet loss and re-sending of lost packets and its multiple independent data paths, it is superior to other IP network solutions when reliability, resilience from attack, and security count. Your mission can still be completed in spite of significant losses of mesh nodes and payload carrying drones.

Adax MAVCP can be easily integrated with existing vendor’s applications for drone control. It is a thin middleware layer that fits in above IP or UDP, so no application re-writing is required. Adax provides support for integrating Adax drone-saving real-time solutions into customer’s products.

The MAVCP Fact-sheet can be found at:

https://www.adax.com/products/signaling-platform/mavcp-multipath-aerial-vehicle-control-protocol/

For further information, please contact Claudia Forester with Adax at(510) 548-7047 ext.188 or email: sales@adax.com.

About Adax Inc:

For over 40 years Adax has been a developer of high-performance software and hardware for real-time and highly reliable communications for the telecommunications industry and other strategic industries with a need for highly resilient communication protocols. https://www.adax.com/.

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California Supreme Court Delivers Landmark Victory for Bicyclists in Whitehead v. City of Oakland

Ruling Strengthens Legal Protections and Reinforces Cities' Responsibility to Maintain Safe Roads

OAKLAND, Calif., May 2, 2025 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Rahman Law PC is pleased to share a powerful affirmation of bicyclists’ rights: the California Supreme Court has ruled in Whitehead v. City of Oakland (Case S284303) that public entities cannot rely on liability waivers to avoid responsibility for dangerous road conditions. The decision marks a major legal milestone for bicycle safety and public accountability across the state.

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The case involved cyclist Ty Whitehead, who suffered a traumatic brain injury during a charity training ride after hitting a large, obscured pothole on Skyline Boulevard in Oakland. Although Whitehead had signed a release form as part of the event, the Court ruled that such waivers cannot excuse a city from its statutory duty to maintain safe public roads. The Court unanimously found that exempting cities from liability in these cases violates California Civil Code section 1668, which prohibits contracts that waive responsibility for a violation of the law.

A pivotal amicus curiae brief supporting Whitehead was submitted by renowned bicycle attorney Shaana Rahman, founder of Rahman Law PC in San Francisco. Rahman authored the brief on behalf of San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, California Bicycle Coalition (CalBike), and Bike East Bay, offering the Court a critical perspective on the real-world impact of road hazards on bicyclists and the importance of holding cities accountable for infrastructure safety. The brief helped underscore how releasing cities from liability would endanger cyclists and undermine public safety efforts statewide.

“This decision is a win not just for one rider, but for every Californian who uses a bike to get around,” said Shaana Rahman, bike lawyer and founder of Rahman Law PC. “It sends a clear message that cities must take their responsibilities seriously—especially when it comes to keeping cyclists safe.”

The ruling clarifies that municipal liability cannot be sidestepped through fine print and reaffirms that cyclists are entitled to the same legal protections as any other road user. It is especially significant at a time when more Californians are choosing bicycles for health, transportation, and environmental reasons.

Organizations across the state have applauded the Court’s decision. Shaana Rahman is calling it “a critical step forward for equity, accountability, and the safety of all who share our roads.”

About Rahman Law PC

The personal injury lawyers at Rahman Law PC are powerful advocates for people who have been injured through no fault of their own. What makes Rahman Law PC different from other personal injury law firms is they care about what happens to their clients; they aggressively advocate for their clients’ interests and have a personal relationship with each client, taking the time to listen and figure out solutions that make sense from a legal point of view but also from a human perspective.

By providing the highest quality legal services to those who have been injured or have suffered wrongdoing at the hands of other individuals, corporations, or public entities, the personal injury attorneys and trial lawyers at Rahman Law PC have a proven track record of results and have successfully recovered millions of dollars for clients throughout California. Rahman Law PC offers clients attentive service backed with big firm experience, making them ready to take on any opponent.

To learn more about the personal injury lawyers at Rahman Law PC, visit https://www.rahmanlawsf.com/ or call (415) 956-9245 in San Francisco, (805) 619-3108 in Paso Robles, California.

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New Comedy Special, ‘Nina G: Stutterer Interrupted,’ released on Amazon Prime

OAKLAND, Calif. /ScoopCloud/ -- San Francisco Bay Area comedian Nina G, known for her unique brand of humor as a woman who stutters, proudly announces the release of her comedy documentary special, "Nina G: Stutterer Interrupted." Available now on Amazon Prime, this special arrives just in time for International Stuttering Awareness Day on October 22.

Directed by award-winning filmmaker Gina Chin-Davis, who also stutters, "Stutterer Interrupted" offers an intimate and humorous exploration of Nina G's life and career. Nina's material not only includes her experiences stuttering. She also jokes about her Italian-American background, growing up Catholic, body image and silliness she encounters.

The film captures a behind-the-scenes look at Nina's filmed-for-broadcast stand-up set at the Alameda Comedy Club in her hometown of Alameda, California. The documentary intersperses Nina's comedy with interviews and archival footage, delving into her personal journey-her early love for comedy, the challenges she faced due to her stutter, and how, with the support of a high school teacher and the stuttering community, she embraced her identity and pursued a successful career in stand-up.

This special is more than just a comedy routine; it's a heartfelt story that addresses the genetic origins of stuttering and the stigma that people with disabilities often face. Nina G's collaboration with Chin-Davis ensures a fresh and often unseen perspective, blending powerful insights with equal parts wit and humor.

In conjunction with the special, Nina G has also released a comedy album of the same name under Punchline Records, marking the label's first comedy album. Both are a companion to her 2019 memoir, "Stutterer Interrupted: The Comedian Who Almost Didn't Happen". She is currently performing across the country in various clubs, theaters, and events, with scheduled appearances in California including Ventura, Grass Valley, the Oakland Comedy Festival.

Nina's full list of up coming shows can be found on https://www.ninagcomedian.com/.

SELECTED UPCOMING SHOWS INCLUDE:

:: October 3, 2024 - 7 P.M. - Greenhoe Theater @ Landmark College

19 River Rd S, Putney, VT 05346

https://www.landmark.edu/calendar/event/ninag

:: October 16, 2024 - 7 P.M. - Comedians with Disabilities Act Show

The Center For the Arts, 314 W Main St, Grass Valley, CA 95945

:: October 17, 2024 - 8 P.M. - Comedians with Disabilities Act Show

Deaf Puppy Comedy Club, 127 N Main St, Manteca, CA 95336

:: October 18, 2024 - 10 P.M. - Comedians with Disabilities Act

All Out Comedy Theater, 2550 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, CA 94612

:: October 19, 2024 - 8 P.M. - Oakland Comedy Festival

Washington Inn, 495 10th St, Oakland, CA 94607

:: October 24, 2024 - 7 P.M. - Empress Theatre

330 Virginia St, Vallejo, CA 94590

:: November 6, 2024 - 8 P.M. - The Lobby at the Iron Front

417 N Last Chance Gulch, Helena, MT 59601

MORE INFORMATION:

For more information and to watch the special, visit the film's website: https://www.stuttererinterrupted.com/.

To view the Nina G: Stutterer Interrupted trailer: https://youtu.be/qW0VkDGjxRw?si=RPJodhEgAqLefDDo

Learn more about the special on Amazon Prime: https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B0D875XLTM/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r

ABOUT NINA G:

Nina G. (Comedian), the San Francisco Bay Area's favorite female stuttering stand up comedian, is also a professional speaker, comedy history consultant, and the author of three books: "Bay Area Stand-Up Comedy: A Humorous History," "Stutterer Interrupted: The Comedian Who Almost Didn't Happen and the children's book," "Once Upon An Accommodation: A Book About Learning Disabilities" that helps children and adults advocate for their rights as a person with a disability. The 20+ year Oakland resident has been featured on NPR's 51%, BBC's Ouch, Psychology Today, Tedx, KQED Radio, and multiple daytime talk shows and podcasts and has shared the stage with legendary comedians including Don Novello (aka: Father Guido Sarducci), Mort Sahl, Eddie Pepitone, and Cathy Ladman.

When Nina isn't performing at comedy clubs, she is playing colleges and presenting as a keynote speaker. She is part of the comedy troupe The Comedians with Disabilities Act which brings laughter and awareness to audiences of all ages across the country.

ABOUT GINA CHIN-DAVIS:

Gina Chin-Davis (Filmmaker) is an award-winning filmmaker and writer who grew up in Richmond, California. She attended Barnard College in New York City where she received the Howard M. Teichmann Writing Prize for work distinguished in originality of concept and excellence of execution. Her first feature film, I Can't Sleep (2020), was produced on a self-raised budget of $10K and went on to win Best Script at the Boston Sci-Fi Film Festival and Best Sci-Fi Film at the MidWest WeirdFest. Visit her online at https://ginachindavis.com/.

QUOTES & TESTIMONIALS ABOUT THE FILM

"Lifting up the voices of women who stutter is extremely important, especially because it is rare to see us represented in popular culture." - Maya Chupkov, founder of Proud Stutter, an advocacy nonprofit and podcast.

"This film shows Nina G. as a powerful change-maker. As a talented storyteller and stand up comedian, Nina G is transforming society's view of disabled people one stage at a time." - Beth A. Haller, Ph.D., author of Disabled People Transforming Media Culture for a More Inclusive World.

"Doing standup is hard. Doing standup when you stutter, takes a truckload of confidence, self-acceptance, poise, and a burning desire to make others laugh. Nina G has embraced her disability and plowed ahead, fearlessly pursuing her childhood dream of becoming a standup comic, as well as educating her audience that comedy delivered with a stutter, can also be funny, unique and provide an interesting life perspective. Nina never fails to amaze me. As a disability activist, published author with her doctorate, and ebullient personality, she is definitely a force to reckoned with. This girl is on fire!" - Bernadette Luckett, writer/producer.

"The first time I saw Nina perform was at an open mic in a hallway leading to restrooms. She didn't just do her time. She got laughs... with a stutter. Years ago comics mocked stutterers. Nina never backed down, often mocking the mockers. I was impressed once again by her knowledge of standup history. She's funny, smart and strong. I'm a fan." - Ritch Shydner, comedian and author of "Kicking Through the Ashes: My Life as a Stand-up in the 1980s Comedy Boom."

News from Nina G

San Francisco Bay Area comedian Nina G, known for her unique brand of humor as a woman who stutters, proudly announces the release of her comedy documentary special, "Nina G: Stutterer Interrupted." Available now on Amazon Prime, this special arrives just in time for International Stuttering Awareness Day on October 22.

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Comedians with Disabilities Act Change Attitudes Through Laughter

OAKLAND, Calif. /ScoopCloud/ -- The founders and contributors of the Comedians with Disabilities Act (CWDA) are about to hit the road for its wildly popular show to span three states: Montana, Oregon and California. They're celebrating Disability Pride month in July, which also happens to coincide with the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

The various venues that will host the comedy troupe are thrilled to have them on the stage. One Montana venue in Butte even did a little renovation to accommodate the act by modifying its restroom to ensure accessibility - and laughter - for all.

"Thanks to the Elk Lodge for pulling through," Nina G,' says. "They saw the need to make this event and others they will have inclusive to everyone. CWDA is proud to be part of this change!"

The Comedians with Disabilities Act (CWDA) is a fabulous collection of comedians with disabilities, both seen and unseen, who share their humor and personal experiences. Overall, the tour is designed to bring authentic and traditionally unheard voices to the forefront.

It's the brainchild of comedian, Michael O'Connell, who started the group in 2010, and was later joined by Steve Danner and Nina G. In 2016, O'Connell passed away - but the show lives on and spotlights a variety of disabled and outrageously funny comedians. The upcoming lineup of shows includes disability representation from diverse perspectives and intersections. Every show will feature a different line up.

And, it's not the first time this group has taken the show on the road. In October 2022, for Disability Awareness month, 17 comedians performed four shows for hundreds of people throughout Northern California. Material covered everything from stuttering and dyslexia to dwarfism, addiction recovery, anxiety, blindness and more.

Michael Beers, who will headline the California and Montana shows, was born and raised in Montana and is a comedy veteran of 23 years. He's been a disability advocate for nearly 20 years and says that comedy is an important vehicle to changing attitudes about disability.

"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people," he says. "And, comedy is a beautiful way to educate people without disabilities. When we laugh together we can find our commonalities."

Beers won the Norman G. Brooks Comedy Competition at the Hollywood Improv in 2005. He was also the previous winner of Funny Fest (Calgary Comedy Festival) and has opened for comedians like Gilbert Gottfried. He is a sought-after keynote speaker on topics like humor, disability advocacy, education and community building.

Author and disability advocate Nina G, will headline the Portland, OR show. She's the author of multiple books and most recently had her first solo comedy album debut at number one on the iTunes and Amazon comedy charts. Her special will be out later this year.

"There's a lot of talk about representation for disabled actors, writers and artists, yet the images we see on TV and film are sparse. It's important that comedy producers spotlight disabled comedians," she says. "I hope they'll see that we're not only hilarious, but can sell out a show too."

Her memoir, "Stutterer Interrupted: The Comedian Who Almost Didn't Happen," was released to critical acclaim in 2019 and in February 2022, she launched and another book, co-authored by OJ Patterson, "Bay Area Stand-Up Comedy: A Humorous History." She's performed all over the U.S. and appeared on many daytime TV talk shows, NPR broadcasts and podcasts.

Mean Dave, a favorite in the San Francisco Bay Area, will host several shows. Dave is in his eighth year of addiction recovery, which he ingeniously weaves into his humor. He's opened for many notable comedians like Josh Blue, Big Jay Oakerson, and Jay Mohr, and has performed at colleges across the U.S.

"Not a lot of people know that being a recovering addict is covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act," he says.

Danner, who is a little person, says, "We're all comedians first. But, we also want to send a strong message that, even with a disability, we can reach our goals."

His comedy career began as an audience member at a comedy club. The comedian on stage started riffing with him. After Danner showcased his own riffing skills, the comic approached Danner after the show and suggested he give comedy a try. That soon launched a career as a comedian and producer. He's opened for many headliners such as "Last Comic Standing" winner, Felipe Esparza.

These four comedians will be joined by Jade Theriault, Dan Smith, Adam Keys, Willie Travis, Milt Abel, Loren Kraut and others. Each comedian shares their personal disability experiences and brand of humor to make audiences laugh in each of these three states.

The tour schedule is:

* Thursday, July 6: Murphy's Law Irish Pub, Sunnyvale, CA

* Saturday, July 8: Manny's, San Francisco, CA (noon)

* Saturday, July 8: EJ Phair, Pittsburg, CA

* Sunday, July 9: Fox Tale Fermentation Project, San Jose, CA

* Thursday, July 13 Barrel Proof Comedy, Santa Rosa, CA

* Wednesday, July 19: Curious Comedy Theater in Portland, OR

* Thursday, July 27: Elks Lodge in Butte, MT

* Friday, July 28: Last Best Comedy Club in Bozeman, MT (two shows)

* Saturday, July 29: Zootown Arts Community Center in Missoula, MT

FOR MORE INFORMATION

Ticket and show information and times: https://comedianswithdisabilitiesact.com/

Nina G: https://www.ninagcomedian.com/

News from Comedians with Disabilities Act

The founders and contributors of the Comedians with Disabilities Act (CWDA) are about to hit the road for its wildly popular show to span three states: Montana, Oregon and California. They're celebrating Disability Pride month in July, which also happens to coincide with the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

Related link: https://comedianswithdisabilitiesact.com/

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