{"id":19119,"date":"2021-08-03T13:27:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T17:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/?post_type=article&p=19119"},"modified":"2026-03-27T10:53:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T14:53:50","slug":"california-agency-cooperation","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/es\/article\/composting-for-community\/california-agency-cooperation","title":{"rendered":"California \u2013 Inter-Agency Cooperation"},"template":"","class_list":["post-19119","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry","article_type-state-policy","initiatives-composting-for-community","topics-governance","topics-infrastructure","topics-planning-and-zoning","impact_areas-climate-and-environmental-justice","impact_areas-food-security","authors-brenda-platt"],"acf":{"details":{"featured_image":"","background_color":"tan","article_type":[36],"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":[82,89,103],"impact_areas":[16,18],"abstract":"As of 2018, the state of California reported a 65 percent diversion rate for all materials and more than 140,000 green jobs in its recycling sector. This success is attributable to California\u2019s 1989 Integrated Waste Management Act and the state\u2019s more recent efforts to increase organics recycling through the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle), a state agency that coordinates the state\u2019s multiple waste and recycling management programs.","authors_tax":[601]},"sidebar":{"title":"\u00cdndice"},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"As of 2018, the state of California reported a 65 percent diversion rate for all materials and more than 140,000 green jobs in its recycling sector.[footnote]\u00a0About CalRecycle<\/em>. CalRecycle. 2018. https:\/\/www.calrecycle.ca.gov\/AboutUs\/[\/footnote] This success is attributable to California\u2019s 1989 Integrated Waste Management Act and the state\u2019s more recent\u00a0efforts to increase organics recycling through the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle), a state agency that coordinates the state\u2019s multiple waste and recycling management programs.[footnote]Strom-Martin, Virginia. 1997. A Proposed State Role in California\u2019s Recycling Agenda<\/em>. Environs<\/em> Vol. 21<\/a>, Issue 1, p.73-82. UC Davis School of Law. [PDF<\/a>][\/footnote]\r\n\r\nIn order to address the 15 million tons of compostable organics still being landfilled, in 2014 the state legislature passed Assembly Bill (AB) 1826 for mandatory commercial organics recycling<\/a>, as well as four other recycling bills in 2015. These laws sought to further increase the state\u2019s organic waste diversion infrastructure by both incentivizing businesses and mandating state agencies to create mutually shared regulations and goals for organic waste recycling.\r\n\r\nWhile one of the laws pertains to tax exemptions, three of the laws mutually reinforce one another by affecting the way Californian jurisdictions manage their waste streams. Essentially, the laws lay the groundwork for California to better monitor its state recycling system in a way that will ascertain the best means to improve its recycling rate and to ensure sufficient capacity for organics diversion.\r\n\r\n \r\n

Inter-Agency Cooperation<\/h3>\r\nAB 1045<\/a>, the bill related to inter-agency cooperation, is now codified in the CA Public Resources Code as Section\u00a042649.87<\/a>.\u00a0The bill explicitly\u00a0asserts the myriad agricultural and environmental benefits of composting. In particular, it mentions: the reduction of volatile organic compounds and ammonia produced by unmanaged decomposition of organic materials; diversion as a strategy for overall reduction of greenhouse gas emissions as part of California\u2019s climate change plan; and several land management benefits<\/a>, such as erosion control, decreases in synthetic fertilizer needs, and the potential for soil carbon sequestration through compost application in agriculture and landscaping.\r\n\r\nAs an extension of existing laws requiring California\u00a0agencies to develop source reduction and recycling plans, AB 1045 requires the California Environmental Protection Agency to coordinate with other state departments in agriculture, air resources, and water resources to promote the use of compost on \u201cworking lands\u201d for agriculture, forestry, and range. These agencies must further foster organic waste diversion from landfills and the use of compost across the state by assessing the infrastructure needs to meet organic waste reduction and recycling goals as stipulated in relevant California statutes, including AB 1826 (Mandatory Commercial Organics Recycling).\r\n\r\nThe agencies must also: (a) meet with interested stakeholders at least quarterly, (b) hold at least one public workshop<\/a> to receive comments on their plans, and (c) develop recommendations for promoting recycling infrastructure across the state, which\u00a0are to be shared publicly via the CalEPA website<\/a> by January 1, 2017. In addition, the Californian Air & Water Resource Boards will coordinate their permitting processes and co-regulation of composting facilities to ensure composting activities are properly managed. AB 1045 seeks to lower bureaucratic hurdles to establishing composting infrastructure by having all state agencies coordinate permitting and other regulation requirements.\r\n\r\nOther policies passed in 2015\u00a0relate to capacity building for organic waste processing in California:\u00a0reporting requirements<\/a> (AB 901), local infrastructure planning<\/a> (AB 876), and tax exemptions<\/a>\u00a0(AB 199).\r\n\r\n\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014","":null,"settings":""}}]},"yoast_head":"\nCalifornia \u2013 Inter-Agency Cooperation | Composting for Community<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Composting for Community article by Brenda Platt explores Governance, Infrastructure and Planning and Zoning, focusing on Climate and Environmental Justice and Food Security\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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