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Environmental Management Department recommending the Board approve the Final Passage (Second Reading) of Ordinance 5164, as required for compliance with SB 1383, amending Title 8 of the El Dorado County Ordinance Code to add a new Chapter 8.45, County Organic Waste Disposal and Diversion, establishing regulations and requirements for the reduction of organic waste in landfills. (Cont. 8/23/2022, Item 25)
FUNDING: County Service Area No. 10 - Solid Waste.
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DISCUSSION / BACKGROUND
On August 23, 2022, the Board approved the Introduction (First Reading) of Ordinance 5164 as required for compliance with SB 1383, amending Title 8 of the El Dorado County Ordinance Code to add a new Chapter 8.45, County Organic Waste Disposal and Diversion, establishing regulations and requirements for the reduction of organic waste in landfills and Continued the matter to August 30, 2022 for Final Passage (Second Reading),
Senate Bill 1383, titled the “Short-lived Climate Pollutant Reduction Act of 2016,” was signed into law on September 19, 2016, by Governor Brown modifying Chapter 395 of the Statutes of 2016 and requiring local jurisdictions under the regulatory authority of CalRecycle to develop regulations to reduce organics in landfills as a source of methane, and achieve the statewide reduction targets established in the law. The goal of the law is to reduce emissions of short-lived climate pollutants in various sectors of California’s economy. Similarly, Assembly Bill 1826 which passed in 2014, added Chapter 12.9 to the Public Resources Code, requiring businesses and multi-family property owners who generate a specified threshold of Solid Waste, Recycling and Organic Waste per week to arrange for appropriate recycling services for said waste, and requiring local jurisdictions to implement a mandatory Organics Recycling program.
In an effort to establish a comprehensive ordinance for organic waste reduction in El Dorado County, Environmental Management has drafted t...
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