California bill promotes dual-stream recycling
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On Friday, Aug. 30, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an assembly bill into law that encourages local governments to increase curbside separation in their recycling programs.
AB 815 was authored by Assemblywoman Cecilia Aguiar-Curry, D-Winters, California, in order to reduce contamination in the state’s recycling stream. The bill states that the measure would “incentivize, but not require communities and waste haulers to implement [dual-stream] recycling programs.”
According to the bill, existing law requires cities, counties or regional agencies to submit an annual report to the state’s Department of Resources, Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) summarizing its progress in reducing solid and household hazardous waste. Existing law requires the department to review a jurisdiction’s compliance with the diversion requirements every two to four years and requires the department to issue an order of compliance if the department finds, after considering specified factors, the jurisdiction failed to make a good faith effort to implement its source reduction and recycling element or household hazardous waste element. The bill states that “after issuing an order of compliance, existing law authorizes the department to impose administrative civil penalties upon that jurisdiction, as provided.”
The bill will require California’s Department of Resources, Recycling and Recovery to consider whether jurisdictions have implemented a dual-stream recycling element or household hazardous waste element.
AB 815 had bipartisan support throughout the legislative process, and the measure will take effect on Jan. 1, 2020.
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Source: Recycling Today
California bill promotes dual-stream recycling
<![CDATA[On Friday, Aug. 30, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an assembly bill into law that encourages local governments to increase curbside separation in their recycling programs. AB 815 was authored by Assemblywoman Cecilia Aguiar-Curry, D-Winters, California, in order to reduce contamination in the state’s recycling stream. The bill states that the measure would “incentivize, but not require communities and waste haulers to implement [dual-stream] recycling programs.”According to the bill, existing law requires cities, counties or regional agencies to submit an annual report to the state’s Department of Resources, Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) summarizing its progress in reducing solid and household hazardous waste. Existing law requires the department to review a jurisdiction’s compliance with the diversion requirements every two to four years and requires the department to issue an order of compliance if the department finds, after considering specified factors, the jurisdiction failed to make a good faith effort to implement its source reduction and recycling element or household hazardous waste element. The bill states that “after issuing an order of compliance, existing law authorizes the department to impose administrative civil penalties upon that jurisdiction, as provided.”The bill will require California’s Department of Resources, Recycling and Recovery to consider whether jurisdictions have…
