{"id":19115,"date":"2023-03-13T13:21:24","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T17:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/?post_type=article&p=19115"},"modified":"2025-02-20T14:56:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T19:56:37","slug":"sanmateo-waste-surcharges","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/es\/article\/composting-for-community\/sanmateo-waste-surcharges","title":{"rendered":"Condado de San Mateo, California \u2013 Recargos por eliminaci\u00f3n de desechos"},"template":"","class_list":["post-19115","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry","article_type-local-policy","initiatives-composting-for-community","topics-infrastructure","topics-zero-waste","impact_areas-climate-and-environmental-justice","authors-sophia-jones"],"acf":{"details":{"featured_image":"","background_color":"tan","article_type":[37],"initiative":15,"display_event_fields":false,"start_date":null,"end_date":null,"start_time":null,"end_time":null,"time_zone":"America\/New_York","virtual_event":false,"location":"","topics":[89,121],"impact_areas":[16],"abstract":"The County of San Mateo uses a $9.89\/ton AB 939 fee levied on all waste disposed of at landfills in the county to pay for programs associated with its integrated waste management plan. This fee funds various solid waste reduction and diversion programs and household hazardous waste programs for the county.","authors_tax":[629]},"sidebar":{"title":"\u00cdndice"},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":"","component_wysiwyg":{"content":"California\u2019s 1989 Assembly Bill 939<\/a>\u00a0(AB 939) required local governments throughout the state to develop integrated waste management plans to detail how they will reach certain diversion goals outlined in the legislation. AB 939 also allowed for governments to levy a fee to pay for the cost of developing and implementing these plans.\r\n
\u201cCAP\u00cdTULO 8. Autoridad local encargada de las tasas<\/h6>\r\n
41900. Cada ciudad y condado deber\u00e1 demostrar que dispone de una o varias fuentes de financiaci\u00f3n para sufragar los gastos de preparaci\u00f3n, adopci\u00f3n y aplicaci\u00f3n del elemento o plan, tal y como exigen las secciones 41003, 41230, 41303 y 41430.<\/strong><\/h6>\r\n
41901. Una ciudad, condado o ciudad y condado pueden imponer tasas en cantidades suficientes para pagar los costos de preparaci\u00f3n, adopci\u00f3n y aplicaci\u00f3n de un plan integrado de gesti\u00f3n de residuos elaborado de conformidad con este cap\u00edtulo. Las tasas se basar\u00e1n en los tipos o cantidades de residuos s\u00f3lidos y se utilizar\u00e1n para sufragar los costos reales en que incurra la ciudad o el condado en la preparaci\u00f3n, adopci\u00f3n y aplicaci\u00f3n del plan, as\u00ed como en la fijaci\u00f3n y recaudaci\u00f3n de las tasas locales. Al determinar el importe de las tasas, la ciudad o el condado incluir\u00e1 \u00fanicamente los costos directamente relacionados con la preparaci\u00f3n, adopci\u00f3n y aplicaci\u00f3n del plan y con la fijaci\u00f3n y recaudaci\u00f3n de las tasas locales.<\/h6>\r\n
41902. Una agencia local puede cobrar directamente las tarifas autorizadas por este cap\u00edtulo o puede, mediante acuerdo, disponer que las tarifas sean cobradas por una empresa de transporte de residuos s\u00f3lidos que preste servicios de recolecci\u00f3n de residuos s\u00f3lidos a la ciudad o al condado.\u201d<\/h6>\r\n \r\n\r\nThe County of San Mateo uses a $9.89\/ton AB 939 fee levied on all waste disposed of at landfills in the county to pay for programs associated with its integrated waste management plan. This fee funds various solid waste reduction and diversion programs and household hazardous waste programs for the county.\r\n\r\n \r\n

Funded Waste Diversion and Compost Programs<\/h2>\r\nThe County of San Mateo\u2019s Office of Sustainability (OOS) uses its AB 939 fee revenue to administer various waste diversion and recycling programs for the county, including programs around public education and outreach, construction and demolition waste management, composting education and awareness<\/a>, Green Business, and a schools outreach program<\/a> focused on the 4Rs (reduce, reuse, recycle, rot). A number of infographics are available for schools and gardens to use, including both hot composting<\/a> y vermicomposting<\/a> infographics.\r\n\r\nPublic education programs include a sustainability hotline for information on where to recycle items and a website with resources for learning how to compost at home.\r\n\r\nThe OOS has also piloted several projects including education on an disposable food service ware ordinance<\/a>, un grants program<\/a> for nonprofits, schools, and government agencies, a community garden partnership program<\/a>, and an edible food recovery program<\/a>. Many of these programs are countywide in reach, but there are also some programs focused specifically on the unincorporated areas of the county.\r\n

4Rs Grants Program<\/h3>\r\nEl 4Rs (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rot \u2013 Compost) Grants Program<\/a> offered funding assistance to government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and educational institutions between 2018 and 2023, though currently, the program is indefinitely suspended. It offered Mini Grants ($2,000-$5,000) and Mega Grants (up to $25,000) to entities diverting waste from landfill, awarding a total of over $1.1 million over the 5 annual grant periods that the program was active.\r\n\r\nFunded projects included numerous composting projects, including Burlingame School District's Green Waste Diversion and Composting, The HEAL Project's School Farm Compost Education Program, Fresh Approach's Community Composting Hubs, and Cabrillo PTO's 4Rs Lunchtime Learning Program, to name a few. Past years' grantees are documented below:\r\n