Fullerton, CA Offers Landfill Waste Reduction Progress

SEATTLE (Waste Advantage): Fullerton City Council staff presented an update at the meeting on the city’s compliance with Senate Bill 1383, California’s Short-Lived Climate Pollutant Reduction Strategy, aimed at landfill waste reduction. SB 1383 is the country’s most comprehensive landfill waste reduction mandate, according to a city staff report.  The bill is intended to reduce organic landfill waste by 75% and increase food recovery by 20%, both by 2025.

Under SB 1383, jurisdictions must provide organic collection services to residents and businesses, establish an edible food recovery program, facilitate educational outreach, procure recyclables and organic products, secure access to recovery capacity and monitor compliance with conduct enforcement. The bill is primarily targeted at methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, emerging in large quantities from organic waste in landfills.

“SB 1383 begins to tackle the agriculture point perspective … food waste which would normally compost correctly if just left alone, because it’s sandwiched between all of these things that are not composting that it naturally omits methane gas and pollutes our environment,” said Mayor Pro Tem Fred Jung. To comply with SB 1383, Fullerton has collaborated with CalRecycle, the state’s recycling department which issued an action plan that lists tasks for the city to complete.

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