SAMPLE MEASURES
Innovative Waste Management
State Policy Priorities
- AB 939 California Integrated Waste Management Act
- AB 3056 California's Beverage Container Recycling and Litter Reduction Act
- SB 2202 Waste Management: Diversion Reports
Primary Goals
Objectives:- Integrate existing development with new and planned development
- Encourage development of infill and brownfield properties
- Preserve environmentally superior options (e.g., solar access)
Strategy:- Integrate sustainable design early in planning and development to minimize loss of sustainable opportunities (e.g., design & layout of utilities & transportation infrastructure, location & design of runoff catch basins, design & layout of subdivisions & roofs orientation, trees for shading)
- Minimize urban heat islands
- Preserve and increase natural carbon sequestration
- Protect the environment by diverting waste from landfills
Objectives:- Exceed AB 939 waste diversion and recycling goals (10-25%)
- Develop a plan, including targets and a schedule, to increase residential recycling
- Procure environmentally-friendly products and services
Strategies:- Increase Recycling and Composting
- Provide recycling and composting containers to businesses, households and City buildings
- Provide education, assistance and incentives to constituents to adopt recycling practices
- Encourage and support businesses that provide recycling and composting services
- Decrease hazardous waste and materials
- Assist with strategies for choosing alternatives to hazardous materials, reducing waste quantities and recycling
- Introduce environmental procurement standards
- Promote the City as a leader in sustainable procurement
- Partner with suppliers of environmentally-friendly products and services
Implementation Options
- Increase recycling of common household and office materials
- Provide recycling services as part of trash pick-up (required or by request) including bins and guidelines for residents/businesses
- Integrate existing developments, schools and transit pathways with new and planned development
- Introduce fines for failure to recycle or compost properly
- Enhance and improve existing source reduction and recycling programs
- Promote various end-uses of locally produced compost
- Educate the local community about recycling and composting best practices
- Target different sectors, such as restaurants and residences, to promote recycling and composting efforts
- Provide recognition for exemplary participation by area businesses in recycling and/or composting efforts
- Establish incentives for creative solutions to local waste challenges
- Improve use and storage of hazardous materials
- Adopt specific regulations for development of land on or adjacent to a known solid or hazardous waste site
- Identify reduction opportunities through hazardous waste reduction audits
- Implement a safe bikeway network that increases bicyclist safety and convenience by making roadway improvements and removing physical hazards (e.g., storm gates)
- Stringently evaluate the sighting of facilities that might significantly increase pollution
- Promote the City as a leader in sustainable operations
