Cal Recycle is wrapping up their informal rulemaking process to
implement SB 1383 (Lara, 2016), and will begin with the formal
process next year. SB 1383 aims at reducing short-lived
climate pollutants, including methane by implementing stringent
organic waste diversion targets for landfills.
The bill includes a 50 percent reduction in the disposal of
organic waste by 2020 and 75 percent reduction in the
disposal of organic waste by 2025 using 2014 as the baseline.
CSAC staff has significant concerns about the regulations in
their current form. CSAC has been working on this issue for
several months and recently submitted a letter to Cal Recycle
expressing concerns and is also a signatory of a coalition letter
with the Solid Waste Industry Group (SWIG).
CSAC encourages you to review the draft regulations and submit
your own comments to Cal Recycle expressing how this potential
rulemaking could impact your county. The CSAC Agriculture,
Environment and Natural Resources Committee will be taking up
this issue at our policy conference in late winter/early spring.
