CC RESOLUTION 5007RESOLUTION NO. 5007
A RESOLUTION ADOPTING A MANDATORY ORGANICS RECYCLING
POLICY IN COMPLIANCE WITH CALIFORNIA STATE ASSEMBLY
BILL 1826
The City Council of the City of El Segundo does resolve as follows:
SECTION 1: Recitals:
A. According to California's Department of Resources Recycling and
Recovery (also known as "Cal Recycle"), 41% of what is being thrown
away in California's landfills is organic waste (i.e., food waste, green
waste, landscape and pruning waste, nonhazardous wood waste, and
food - soiled paper waste that is mixed in with food waste). When organics
are landfilled they decompose without oxygen to create methane, a
contributor to climate change;
B. On September 28, 2014, Governor Brown signed Assembly Bill 1826,
Mandatory Commercial Organics Recycling, which requires the City to
implement a mandatory commercial organics recycling program;
C. The law phases -in the mandatory recycling of commercial organics over
several years, with an increase in the number of businesses required to
comply each year, with full implementation in 2020;
D. Under AB 1826, the City is required to (1) implement a mandatory
commercial organic waste recycling policy ordinance, and (2) annually
report to CalRecycle the number of regulated businesses that generate
organic waste and the number that are recycling organic waste (Pub. Res.
Code §§ 41821, 42649.82);
E. The City Council desires to do its part to help reduce the amount of
organic materials sent to landfills; accordingly, the City Council desires to
implement the City's mandatory commercial organics recycling program
by adopting an ordinance and by approving this Mandatory Commercial
Organics Recycling Policy; and
F. It is recognized that there are some businesses and multifamily dwellings
that may not be subject to the ordinance and policy and may apply for an
exemption.
SECTION 2: Adoption. Based on the foregoing reasons, the City Council adopts the
Mandatory Organics Waste Policy contained in Exhibit A, attached hereto and made
part of this Resolution. The City Manager is authorized to approve any amendments to
the policy.
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SECTION 3: The City Clerk is directed to certify the adoption of this Resolution; record
this Resolution in the book of the City's original resolutions; and make a minute of the
adoption of the Resolution in the City Council's records and minutes of this meeting.
SECTION 4: This Resolution will become effective immediately upon adoption and
remain effective unless superseded by a subsequent resolution.
Resolution No. 5007 was PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 1st day of
November, 2016.
Suz a Fuentes, Mayor
ATTEST:
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO
I, Tracy Weaver, City Clerk of the City of El Segundo, California, do hereby certify that
the whole number of members of the City Council of said City is five; that the foregoing
Resolution No. 5007 was duly passed, approved and adopted by said City Council at a
regular meeting held on the 1st day of November, 2016, approved and signed by the
Mayor, and attested to by the City Clerk, by the following vote:
AYES:
Mayor Fuentes, Mayor Pro Tern Boyles, Council Member Dugan,
Council Member Brann, and Council Member Pirsztuk
NOES:
None
ABSENT:
None
ABSTAIN:
None
Tracy We er, City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Mar D. Hensl y ity Attorney