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Talking Trash: Recyclables and Organic Waste Circular Economy Current economic models consist of acquiring materials, making them into products, and then those products become waste. A circular economy reduces material use, redesigns materials and products to be less resource intensive, and recaptures "waste" as a resource to manufacture new materials and products. Compost Compost is made from a variety of organic materials and is used to add nutrients and improve soil structure by mixing it into the soil. Mulch Mulch is typically made from a single material like straw, grass clippings, or wood chips and is spread on top of the soil to suppress weeds, retain moisture, regulate soil temperature, and protect plant roots. MRF Material Recovery Facility OCGJ Orange County Grand Jury OCW&R OC Waste & Recycling, a department of the County of Orange Organic Waste Solid wastes originated from living organisms and their metabolic waste products, and from petroleum, which contain naturally produced organic compounds, and which are biologically decomposable by microbial and fungal action into the constituent compounds of water, carbon dioxide, and other simpler organic compounds. Sometimes called biodegradable waste. ORNGE Organics to Natural Gas and Energy POTW Publicly Owned Treatment Work Recycling Using waste as material to manufacture a new product. Recycling involves altering the physical form of an object or material and making a new object from the altered material. RNG SB SLCP Solid Waste Waste Renewable Natural Gas Senate Bill Short -Lived Climate Pollutants Discarded or abandoned materials. Solid wastes can be solid, liquid, semi -solid or containerized gaseous material. Objects or materials for which no use or reuse is intended. Orange County Grand Jury Page 27 City Council 11 — 29 8/20/2024