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          Date of Hearing:   May 4, 2015


                             ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON RULES


                                Richard Gordon, Chair


          HR 20  
          (Williams) - As Introduced April 27, 2015


          SUBJECT:   Compost Awareness Week.


          SUMMARY:   Designates the week of May 3, 2015 through May 9,  
          2015, as Compost Awareness Week.  Specifically, this resolution  
          makes the following legislative findings:

          1)Compost is an important soil amendment and is critical to the  
            state's valuable agricultural industry; and, composting is an  
            effective form of waste reduction, reuse, and recycling: and  
            since compostable organic materials make up approximately 42  
            percent of the material going to landfills, composting is  
            becoming one of the primary methods used by communities to  
            reach waste diversion goals.

          2)Communities, through their local governments, highway  
            departments, soil conservation services and extension offices,  
            and public works professionals, can have a significant impact  
            on clean water, soil, climate change, and landfill diversion  
            by using compost for public works projects.

          3)Composting California's food waste could cut landfill methane  
            emissions by up to 3 million tons of carbon dioxide per year,  
            and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by an additional 3.3  
            million tons, through the use of finished compost in  
            agriculture.








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          4)Composting creates green jobs and infrastructure for cities  
            and states that implement composting programs and the  
            Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery estimates that  
            recovering a significant portion of our organic waste stream  
            could create 14,000 new jobs in the state by 2020.

          FISCAL EFFECT:   None
          


          REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION:




          Support


          Association of Compost Producers




          Opposition


          None on file




          Analysis Prepared by:Nicole Willis / RLS. / (916) 319-2800














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