This chapter is adopted pursuant to the municipal affairs provision of the city charter. In enacting this ordinance the city council makes the following findings:
A. That, in 1989, the California State Legislature adopted Assembly Bill 939, known as the California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989. The purpose of that Act is to reduce, reuse and recycle solid waste generated in the State to the maximum extent feasible. To achieve that goal, the Act requires the City to implement programs for recycling, composting and source reduction which, in combination, will divert fifty percent of all solid waste generated in the city from landfills by the year 2000;
B. That in order to comply with the requirements of AB 939 that the city implement a composting program and that fifty percent of all solid waste generated in the city be diverted from landfills by the year 2000, it is necessary to divert yard waste debris generated in the city from landfills to the maximum extent possible; and
C. That the most effective method for such diversion is the implementation of a yard debris collection and composting program which will make yard debris collection services available to all residential yard debris generators and which will provide for the operation of a compost facility at which such yard debris shall be composted and at which commercial yard debris generators will be permitted to drop off yard debris for composting.
(Ord. 2107 §1, Ord. 2127 §2)