AB 2592, as introduced, Chesbro. Solid waste: management.
Existing law requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery and local agencies, when implementing the California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989, to promote certain waste management practices in a specified order of priority.
This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to those requirements.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 40051 of the Public Resources Code is
2amended to read:
In implementing this division, thebegin delete boardend deletebegin insert departmentend insert
4 and local agencies shall do both of the following:
5(a) Promote the following waste management practices in order
6of priority:
7(1) Source reduction.
8(2) Recycling and composting.
P2 1(3) Environmentally safe transformation and environmentally
2safe land disposal, at the discretion of the city or county.
3(b) Maximize the use of all feasible source reduction, recycling,
4and composting options in order to reduce the amount of solid
5waste that must be disposed of by transformation and land disposal.
6For wastes that cannot feasibly be reduced at their source, recycled,
7or composted, the local agency may use environmentally safe
8transformation or environmentally safe land disposal, or both of
9those practices.
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