Bill Text: CA AB2321 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Solid waste: integrated waste management.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-14 - From printer. May be heard in committee March 16. [AB2321 Detail]
Download: California-2017-AB2321-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION
| Assembly Bill | No. 2321 |
| Introduced by Assembly Member McCarty |
February 13, 2018 |
An act to amend Section 40000 of the Public Resources Code, relating to solid waste.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2321, as introduced, McCarty.
Solid waste: integrated waste management.
The California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989, administered by the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, generally regulates the disposal, management, and recycling of solid waste.
This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to legislative findings regarding solid waste management in the state.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 40000 of the Public Resources Code is amended to read:40000.
The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following:(a) In 1988, Californians disposed of over 38 million tons of solid waste, an amount that is expected to grow if existing solid waste policies are continued. This amounts to more than 1,500 pounds of solid waste per person living in the state, more than any other state in the country and over twice the per-capita per capita rate of most other industrialized countries.
(b) Over 90 percent of California’s solid waste currently is disposed of in landfills, some of which pose a threat to groundwater, air quality, and public health.
(c) While California will exhaust most of its remaining landfill space by the mid-1990s, there presently is no coherent state policy to ensure that the state’s solid waste is managed in an effective and environmentally sound manner for the remainder of the 20th century and beyond.
(d) The amount of solid waste generated in the state state, coupled with diminishing landfill space and potential adverse environmental impacts from landfilling
landfilling, constitutes an urgent need for state and local agencies to enact and implement an aggressive new integrated waste management program.
(e) The reduction, recycling, or reuse of solid waste generated in the state will, in addition to preserving landfill capacity in California, serve to conserve water, energy, and other natural resources within this state, and to protect the state’s environment.
