Mandatory Recycling and Single-Use Bag Reduction Ordinances

Mandatory Recycling and Single-Use Bag Reduction Ordinances

StopWaste.Org is proposing two specific initiatives to increase recycling countywide, to decrease disposal of resources in landfills, to decrease use of valuable resources in the manufacture and disposal of single-use bags, and to significantly reduce the quantity of single-use bags in the urban environment, in the creeks and water bodies of Alameda County, and in San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean. Mandatory Recycling: To achieve this goal, an ordinance is proposed that would make recycling (including food scraps and other organics) mandatory in Alameda County. Single-Use Bag Reduction: The EIR will also evaluate an ordinance that would prohibit the distribution of single-use carryout paper and plastic bags at the point of sale for all commercial retail business in Alameda County.

Alameda

Countywide

California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Bay Delta Region 3 (CDFW), California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Department of Transportation, District 4 (DOT), California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley Sacramento Region 5 (RWQCB), California Regional Water Quality Control Board, San Francisco Bay Region 2 (RWQCB), California State Lands Commission (SLC), Department of Toxic Substances Control, Department of Water Resources, Resources Agency, Resources, Recycling and Recovery, San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC), State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Water Quality

Other (Ordinances)

Ordinances

Aesthetics, Air Quality, Biological Resources, Cumulative Effects, Hazards & Hazardous Materials, Hydrology/Water Quality, Land Use/Planning, Public Services, Solid Waste, Transportation, Wetland/Riparian, Other