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Shortly after the Zero Waste Goal passed, the city began to adopt a series of waste reduction policies as a means to meet its goal of zero waste. A timeline of select waste-reduction legislation is listed below: 2004 Green Building Ordinance. Goal: Requires city construction to manage debris and provide adequate recycling storage space in buildings
School Composting: A Manual for CT Schools. Cuneen, G. (2010, March). Launching Zero Waste Schools Archived 2010-03-28 at the Wayback Machine "BioCycle", Vol. 51, No. 3, p. 35. Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection. (2003, May). Composting in Restaurants and Schools: A Municipal Toolkit Archived 2010-07-02 at the Wayback Machine ...
Oakland's Zero Waste Policy evolved out of a series of mandates originating with the California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989, which required every city and county in California to reduce their solid waste disposal amounts by 50% by year 2000. Soon after, in 1990, the Alameda County Waste Reduction and Recycling Initiative Charter ...
In 2001, CIWMB became the first government agency to adopt "Zero Waste" as a strategic goal. [18] By 2017, the recycling rates for bottles and cans in California had fallen to their lowest point in almost a decade, and critics alleged CalRecycle was not sufficiently adjusting its subsidiary processing payments to changing market conditions. [19]
Zero waste strongly supports sustainability by protecting the environment, reducing costs and producing additional jobs in the management and handling of wastes back into the industrial cycle. [8] A Zero waste strategy may be applied to businesses, communities, industrial sectors, schools, and homes. Benefits proposed by advocates include:
California is tackling the problem of textile and fashion waste with the country’s first law that requires clothing companies to implement a recycling system for the garments they sell.
Rumors that San Luis Obispo County school districts are placing litter boxes in restrooms to accommodate students who identify as “furries” are false, school district administrators say.
Take-back programs are based on the concept of product stewardship, and Californians Against Waste went on the apply this concept to major sources of waste besides e-waste. Since 2010, the organization has sponsored legislation that brought the PaintCare unused paint drop-off recycling program to California, [ 9 ] and created a used mattress ...