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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. Waste Management, Inc. - Wikipedia

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    Waste Management has said that the plant, announced in April 2008, and built and operated by The Linde Group with state funding, is the world's largest facility to convert landfill gas into vehicle fuel. [40] [41] [42] Waste Management works with environmental groups in the U.S. to set aside land to create and manage wetlands and wildlife habitats.

  4. 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 ...

  5. Recology - Wikipedia

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    The company has a long history in the Bay Area, and holds a no-bid contract for garbage collection in San Francisco.In 1932, the city granted a permanent concession to the city's 97 independent garbage collectors; shortly thereafter those 97 independents banded together to form the company that would become Norcal Waste Systems. [4]

  6. Pay as you throw - Wikipedia

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    PAYT programs operated in California, Michigan, New York and Washington as early as the 1970s, although The City of San Francisco “had practiced a kind of PAYT scheme since 1932.” [4] By 2000, 6,000 communities in the U.S. (20%) and 200 in Canada had implemented user fees for waste management. [2]

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  8. California Environmental Protection Agency - Wikipedia

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    The California Integrated Waste Management Board, that focused on recycling and waste reduction, ceased in 2010. It was succeeded by the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery—CalRecycle, also under CalEPA. [10]

  9. Waste Connections - Wikipedia

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    In addition, Waste Connections runs landfills for waste disposal (82 solid waste landfills as of September 2019). [ 6 ] [ 7 ] In Q3 2017, 67% of revenue was from solid waste collection, 21% from solid waste disposal and transfer, 4% from recycling, 5% from its oil industry waste operations, and 3% from other sources.