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CITY OF SANTA ANA <br />Green Policy <br />INTRODUCTION <br />The City of Santa Ana has a long history of implementing environmentally focused programs without an <br />established Green Policy, This Green Policy has been developed to capture the vision of future <br />environmental efforts in the City of Santa Ana, and will be used as the basis for refining the Solid Waste <br />Services Request for Proposals scope, and implementing future solid waste environmental programs. The <br />policy identifies California regulations relating to diversion of materials from landfilling, solid waste best <br />practices hierarchy, current City of Santa Ana programs, practices and policies, existing programs to be <br />included in solid waste agreement, environmental programs required by State regulations to be included <br />in Solid Waste Agreement, suite of additional environmental programs to be included in the new Solid <br />Waste Agreement as financial feasible, and additional environmental policies for consideration. <br />CALIFORNIA REGULATIONS RELATING TO DIVERSION OF MATERIALS <br />FROM LANDFILLING <br />AB 341 <br />AB 939 <br />MW dA1ory <br />en.nnal <br />So% <br />nxyrling;State <br />1."Jiction <br />goal of 75% <br />divarvon <br />diversion by <br />regaurm.t <br />2020 <br />by 20W <br />AB 1826 AB 1594 <br />M1Lunl aher . <br />landfill <br />(PIT,Tv.. <br />1a'" <br />daily <br />daily cover <br />organics <br />ne longer <br />vyf so' gall <br />considered <br />o <br />of 50% <br />dlvorsion in <br />r¢.fortlan in <br />organE- <br />2020 <br />disfwsal by <br />2020 �& <br />SB 1383 <br />50%redvrtina m ar",w <br />dap..l by 2020 and 75% by <br />2025, and 20% eerovery of <br />edible food Ay 2025 <br />Over the past 30 years California has passed many landmark environmental regulations. Summarized <br />below are regulations that specifically address reducing the amount of matenaI being disposed at <br />landfills. <br />California adopted its first statewide, general recycling program in 1989, The California Integrated Waste <br />Management Act (AB 939), which required jurisdictions to achieve 25 percent diversion of all solid waste <br />from landfills by January 1, 1995, and 50 percent diversion by January 1, 2000. In preparation for the <br />2000 deadline, jurisdictions dramatically increased the number of diversion programs. Diversion <br />programs include local effort for source reduction, reuse, recycling, and composting. <br />October 16, 2018 <br />February 11, 2020 8-3 City of Santa Ana <br />o. 1 <br />e <br />