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ORDINANCE NO. NS-3017
<br />AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
<br />SANTA ANA REPEALING AND REENACTING IN ITS
<br />ENTIRETY ARTICLE II OF CHAPTER 16 OF THE SANTA
<br />ANA MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO SOLID WASTE
<br />COLLECTION REGULATIONS
<br />WHEREAS, 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amended, supplemented, superseded, and replaced from time to time), requires cities
<br />and counties to reduce, reuse, and recycle (including composting) solid waste generated
<br />in their jurisdictions to the maximum extent feasible before any incineration or landfill
<br />disposal of waste, to conserve water, energy, and other natural resources, and to protect
<br />the environment; and
<br />WHEREAS, State recycling law, Assembly Bill 341 of 2011 (approved by the
<br />Governor of the State of California on October 5, 2011, which amended Sections 41730,
<br />41731, 41734, 41735, 41736, 41800, 42926, 44004, and 50001 of, and added Sections
<br />40004, 41734.5, and 41780.01 and Chapter 12.8 (commencing with Section 42649) to
<br />Part 3 of Division 30 of, and added and repealed Section 41780.02 of, the Public
<br />Resources Code, as amended, supplemented, superseded and replaced from time to
<br />time), places requirements on businesses and multi -family property owners that generate
<br />a specified threshold amount of solid waste to arrange for recycling services and requires
<br />jurisdictions to implement a mandatory commercial recycling program; and
<br />WHEREAS, State organics recycling law, Assembly Bill 1826 of 2014 (approved
<br />by the Governor of the State of California on September 28, 2014, which added Chapter
<br />12.9 (commencing with Section 42649.8) to Part 3 of Division 30 of the Public Resources
<br />Code, relating to solid waste, as amended, supplemented, superseded, and replaced
<br />from time to time), requires businesses and multi -family property owners that generate a
<br />specified threshold amount of solid waste, recycling, and organic waste per week to
<br />arrange for recycling services for that waste, requires jurisdictions to implement a
<br />recycling program to divert organic waste from businesses subject to the law, and
<br />requires jurisdictions to implement a mandatory commercial organics recycling program;
<br />and
<br />WHEREAS, Senate Bill 1383 (SB 1383), the Short-lived Climate Pollutant
<br />Reduction Act of 2016, requires the California Department of Resources Recycling and
<br />Recovery (CalRecycle) to develop regulations to reduce organics in landfills as a source
<br />of methane. As adopted by CalRecycle, these SB 1383 regulations (SB 1383
<br />Regulations) place requirements on multiple entities, including jurisdictions, residential
<br />households, commercial businesses and business owners, commercial edible food
<br />generators, haulers, self -haulers, food recovery organizations, and food recovery
<br />services, to support achievement of statewide organic waste disposal reduction targets;
<br />and
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