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  2. California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery

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    The California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (also known as CalRecycle) is a branch of the California Environmental Protection Agency that oversees the state's waste management, recycling, and waste reduction programs. CalRecycle was established in 2010 to replace the California Integrated Waste Management Board.

  3. San Francisco Mandatory Recycling and Composting Ordinance

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    In 1988, San Francisco's Solid Waste Management Program set diversion goals, calling for a 32 percent reduction in the city's waste stream by 1992 and 43 percent by 2002. However, in 1989, the California legislature preempted San Francisco's goals by passing the Integrated Waste Management Act (AB 939), which set waste reduction goals of 25 ...

  4. Zero waste - Wikipedia

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    In 2008, Zero Waste was a term used to describe manufacturing and municipal waste management practices. Bea Johnson, a French American woman living in California, decided to apply it to her 4-person household. In 2009, she started the blog Zero Waste Home, and in 2010, was featured in The New York Times. [16] [17]

  5. California approves rules for converting sewage waste to ...

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    California regulators on Tuesday cleared the way for widespread use of advanced filtration and treatment facilities designed to convert sewage waste into pure drinking water that can be pumped ...

  6. California Integrated Waste Management Board - Wikipedia

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  7. Los Angeles wildfires: California cities vow to ‘shut down ...

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    Multiple cities in Southern California are vowing to "shut down" a site being used by the Environmental Protection Agency to collect and process hazardous waste from the devastating Eaton Fire ...

  8. California Environmental Protection Agency - Wikipedia

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    California Department of Resources, Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) The California Integrated Waste Management Board, that focused on recycling and waste reduction, ceased in 2010. It was ...

  9. City of Oakland's Zero Waste Program - Wikipedia

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    Oakland's Zero Waste Policy evolved out of a series of mandates originating with the California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989, which required every city and county in California to reduce their solid waste disposal amounts by 50% by year 2000. Soon after, in 1990, the Alameda County Waste Reduction and Recycling Initiative Charter ...