Ensuring jurisdictional compliance of Senate Bill 1383 was a top
priority in 2022. OCWR worked together with
the County’s 34 cities,
jurisdictions, and waste haulers, updating franchise agreements,
passing mandatory organic waste
management ordinances,
conducting capacity planning activities and establishing edible
food recovery contracts.
Ensuring jurisdictional compliance of Senate Bill
1383 was a top priority in 2022. OCWR worked
together with the County’s 34 cities,
jurisdictions, and waste haulers, updating franchise agreements,
passing mandatory organic waste
management ordinances,
conducting capacity planning activities and establishing edible
food recovery contracts.
Legislative activity continued to unfold throughout 2022.
OCWR tracked 36
bills, of which 19 were signed
into law. Key legislative highlights include:
Repeals the provision authorizing the inclusion of not more than 10% of the
diversion through
transformation and removes the diversion credit for
municipal solid waste incinerators and redefines incineration as disposal.
Imposes the sales ban on the thermostats of every manufacturer not
in compliance with the act. The
bill requires manufacturers to provide
collection bins for out-of-service mercury-added thermostats.
Establishes a phased approach for meeting recovered organic procurement
targets, 30% by 2023, 65% by
2024 and 100% by 2025. Cities have two
additional years to comply with the SB 1383 organic waste diversion
procurement requirements.
Prohibits producers of single-use, disposable packaging or single-use,
disposable food service ware
products from offering for sale,
distributing, or importing in or into the state such packaging or
products that are
manufactured by 2032, unless they are recyclable
or compostable.