George P CalRecycle just provided new guidance that will soon impact your businesses and multi-family waste generators. This is David Davis at MSW Consultants.
Here is what you need to know:
Starting this December, significantly more businesses will be required to recycle organics under AB 1826. CalRecycle has determined that statewide disposal of organic waste in 2020 has not been reduced to 50 percent of the 2014 disposal level. As a result, the four (4) cubic yard per week threshold, below which businesses were ‘not covered’ under AB 1826, will be adjusted to two (2) cubic yards per week. As a result, over 90% of businesses and multi-family waste generators with bin service will be required to recycle organics. However, this differs from AB 341. The threshold for mandatory commercial recycling (of non-organics) will remain at four (4) cubic yards per week.
CalRecycle will release its Model Implementation Tools in the next few weeks. CalRecycle has developed: 1) A Model Franchise Agreement, 2) An Edible Food Recovery Agreement, 3) A Model Enforcement Ordinance, and, 4) A Model Recycled Content Procurement Policy. These templates are
intended to help jurisdictions implement SB 1383. CalRecycle had been waiting to publish these tools until after the final approval of the SB 1383 regulations. However, CalRecycle has indicated that it will release these tools in draft form in the next few weeks.
CalRecycle will focus on compliance assistance rather than enforcement. CalRecycle is precluded from delaying the current deadlines in SB 1383. These deadlines are a matter of State Law. However, CalRecycle has indicated that it will be emphasizing compliance assistance over enforcement.
Toward this end, we continue helping local jurisdictions prepare for SB 1383. We offer the following compliance assistance services:
- Revising and updating solid waste sections of municipal code
- Electronic Annual Report (EAR) preparation assistance
- Monitoring and documenting the compliance of individual commercial waste generators using Minerva
- Virtual education and outreach to individual waste generators
Further below, we describe our virtual outreach service. This service is designed to efficiently (and tactfully) contact, educate and help each of your non-compliant waste generators. We use our Minerva® software to document the results of our outreach, and maintain support for CalRecycle’s EAR reporting requirements. To learn more, call me at (951) 973-0023, or email me at dave@www.msw-consultants.com.
Sincerely,
David Davis
President
MSW Consultants
Virtual Outreach Services
MSW Consultants offers jurisdictions safe, objective and timely virtual outreach services to their commercial waste generators. This service includes a jurisdiction subscription to the Minerva® recycling compliance platform. Minerva® is a web database tool that collects and categorizes individual waste
generator recycling information, and enables real time collaboration between the jurisdiction, the waste hauler, and outreach staff.
Outreach services include:
- Review your CalRecycle Program Action Plan and identify specific outreach metrics
- Obtain data from the franchised hauler and upload into Minerva®
- Add historic outreach and compliance data
- Categorize and identify all businesses (e.g., covered, not covered, not recycling, etc.)
- . Contact non-compliant businesses via email and/or telephone
- Inform businesses about State and local recycling laws
- Assess current waste stream and disposal practices
- Develop compliance alternatives
- waste hauler, self-haul, third party
- Certify compliance via self-haul or third-party
- Customer self-certification (subject to audit, or on-site verification)
- Obtain applications for exemptions for City review
- Based on the jurisdiction’s solid waste municipal code
- Coordinate requested follow up with franchised waste hauler
- Contact waste hauler with service needs (right sizing)
- Prepare notices of violation for non-compliant businesses
- Penalties remitted to jurisdiction
- Document results of individual customer outreach
- Correspondence, images, notes
- Updated EAR customer counts
- Customers referred for enforcement
If your jurisdiction could benefit from a virtual outreach program, we would appreciate the opportunity to provide you with a written proposal.
