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Talking Trash: Recyclables and Organic Waste <br />Determining the success of their outreach efforts is another challenge that Orange <br />County jurisdictions are facing in the near future. Most jurisdictions need to determine <br />how to measure outreach efforts, as the enforcement started January 1, 2024. Having <br />common standards and methods to measure the success of public education and <br />compliance, and regularly posting this information on the jurisdiction's website related to <br />SB 1383 goals, will give the public an incentive to comply with SB 1383. However, in the <br />interim, there is a significant amount of visual evidence regarding the level of residents' <br />confusion as evidenced by the photo below. The photo is the amount of waste in the <br />first five hours of a workday that was improperly included in residential recyclable <br />containers and delivered to a MRF, where it had to be hand sorted out. <br />Figure 8: Waste improperly included in recyclable containers Photo: OCGJ <br />• Procurement of Recovered Organic Waste Products <br />Representatives from most of the jurisdictions the OCGJ interviewed indicated that <br />meeting the procurement requirements of SB 1383 is challenging. This is due to their <br />jurisdictions' State -calculated procurement targets far exceeding the quantity of <br />recovered organic waste products that they can utilize. <br />To comply with SB 1383, jurisdictions must procure recovered organic waste <br />products to meet an annual procurement target. Recovered organic waste <br />products include: <br />o Compost <br />o Mulch <br />2023-2024 Orange County Grand Jury Page 14 <br />