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Title 6. Sanitation and Health
<br />Chapter 8. Mandatory Organic Waste Disposal Reduction
<br />6-8.01 Purpose and Findings.
<br />The Town of Los Altos Hills finds and declares:
<br />(a) State recycling law, Assembly Bill 939 of 1989, the California integrated Waste
<br />Management Act of 1989 (California Public Resources Code Section 40000, et seq., as
<br />amended, supplemented, superseded, and replaced from time to time), requires cities and
<br />counties to reduce, reuse, and recycle (including composting) Solid Waste generated in their
<br />Jurisdictions to the maximum extent feasible before any incineration or landfill disposal of
<br />waste, to conserve water, energy, and other natural resources, and to protect the environment.
<br />(b) State recycling law, Assembly Bill 341 of 2011 (approved by the Governor of the State of
<br />California on October 5, 201.1, which amended Sections 41730, 41731, 41734, 41735, 41736,
<br />41800, 42926, 44004, and 50001 of, and added Sections 40004, 41.734.5, and 41780.01 and
<br />Chapter 12.8 (commencing with Section 42649) to Part 3 of Division 30 of, and added and
<br />repealed Section 41780.02 of, the Public Resources Code, as amended, supplemented,
<br />superseded and replaced from time to time), places requirements on businesses and Multi -
<br />Family property owners that generate a specified threshold amount of Solid. Waste to arrange
<br />for recycling services and requires Jurisdictions to implement a Mandatory Commercial
<br />Recycling program.
<br />(c) State organics recycling law, Assembly Bill 1826 of 2014 (approved by the Governor of the
<br />State of California on September 28, 2014, which added. Chapter 12.9 (commencing with
<br />Section 42649.8) to Part 3 of Division 30 of the Public Resources Code, relating to Solid
<br />Waste, as amended, supplemented, superseded, and replaced from time to time), requires
<br />businesses and Multi -Family property owners that generate a specified threshold amount of
<br />Solid Waste, Recycling, and Organic Waste per week to arrange for recycling services for
<br />that waste, requires Jurisdictions to implement a recycling program to divert Organic Waste
<br />from businesses subject to the law, and requires Jurisdictions to implement a Mandatory
<br />Commercial Organics Recycling program.
<br />(d) SB 1383, the Short-lived Climate Pollutant Reduction Act of 2016, requires CalRecycle to
<br />develop regulations to reduce organics in landfills as a source of methane. The regulations
<br />place requirements on multiple entities including jurisdictions, residential households,
<br />Commercial Businesses and business owners, Commercial Edible Food Generators, haulers,
<br />Self -Haulers, Food Recovery Organizations, and Food Recovery Services to support
<br />achievement of Statewide Organic Waste disposal reduction targets.
<br />(e) SB 1383, the Short-lived Climate Pollutant Reduction Act of 2016, requires jurisdictions to
<br />adopt and enforce an Chapter or enforceable mechanism to implement relevant provisions of
<br />SB 1383 Regulations. This Chapter will also help reduce food insecurity by requiring
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