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Talking Trash: Recyclables and Organic Waste <br />Circular Economy Current economic models consist of acquiring materials, making <br />them into products, and then those products become waste. A <br />circular economy reduces material use, redesigns materials and <br />products to be less resource intensive, and recaptures "waste" as a <br />resource to manufacture new materials and products. <br />Compost Compost is made from a variety of organic materials and is used to <br />add nutrients and improve soil structure by mixing it into the soil. <br />Mulch Mulch is typically made from a single material like straw, grass <br />clippings, or wood chips and is spread on top of the soil to suppress <br />weeds, retain moisture, regulate soil temperature, and protect plant <br />roots. <br />MRF Material Recovery Facility <br />OCGJ Orange County Grand Jury <br />OCW&R OC Waste & Recycling, a department of the County of Orange <br />Organic Waste Solid wastes originated from living organisms and their metabolic <br />waste products, and from petroleum, which contain naturally <br />produced organic compounds, and which are biologically <br />decomposable by microbial and fungal action into the constituent <br />compounds of water, carbon dioxide, and other simpler organic <br />compounds. Sometimes called biodegradable waste. <br />ORNGE Organics to Natural Gas and Energy <br />POTW Publicly Owned Treatment Work <br />Recycling Using waste as material to manufacture a new product. Recycling <br />involves altering the physical form of an object or material and <br />making a new object from the altered material. <br />RNG <br />SB <br />SLCP <br />Solid Waste <br />Waste <br />Renewable Natural Gas <br />Senate Bill <br />Short -Lived Climate Pollutants <br />Discarded or abandoned materials. Solid wastes can be solid, <br />liquid, semi -solid or containerized gaseous material. <br />Objects or materials for which no use or reuse is intended. <br />2023-2024 Orange County Grand Jury Page 27 <br />