The City of Murrieta finds and declares the following:
A. Assembly Bill (“AB”) 939 of 1989, the California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989 (California Public Resources Code Section 40000, et seq., as amended, supplemented, superseded and replaced from time to time), requires the city to reduce, reuse, and recycle (including composting), solid waste generated in the city to the maximum extent feasible before any incineration or landfill disposal of waste, to conserve water, energy, and other natural resources, and to protect the environment.
B. AB 341 of 2011 (approved by the Governor of the State of California on October 5, 2011, which amended Sections 41730, 41731, 41734, 41735, 41736, 41800, 42926, 44004, and 50001 of, and added Sections 40004, 41734.5, and 41780.01 and Chapter 12.8 (commencing with Section 42649) to Part 3 of Division 30 of, and added and repealed Section 41780.02 of, the Public Resources Code, as amended, supplemented, superseded and replaced from time to time), places requirements on businesses, and Multi-Family property owners, that generate a specified threshold amount of solid waste to arrange for recycling services and requires the city to implement a mandatory commercial recycling program.
C. AB 1826 of 2014 (approved by the Governor of the State of California on September 28, 2014, which added Chapter 12.9 (commencing with Section 42649.8) to Part 3 of Division 30 of the Public Resources Code, relating to solid waste, as amended, supplemented, superseded, and replaced from time to time), requires businesses, and multi-family property owners, that generate a specified threshold amount of solid waste, recycling, and organic waste per week to arrange for recycling services for that waste, and requires the city to implement a recycling program to divert organic waste from such businesses subject to the law.
D. Senate Bill (“SB”) 1383 of 2016, the Short-lived Climate Pollutant Reduction Act of 2016, requires CalRecycle to develop regulations to reduce organics in landfills as a source of methane. These regulations, adopted in 2020 (“SB 1383 Regulations”), place requirements on multiple entities including counties and cities; single-family residential households; commercial businesses, including multi-family property owners; commercial edible food generators, haulers, including self haulers; food recovery organizations; and food recovery services to support achievement of statewide organic waste disposal reduction targets. The SB 1383 Regulations further require the city to adopt and enforce an ordinance or other enforceable mechanism to implement relevant provisions of the SB 1383 Regulations.
E. This chapter implements the requirements of the SB 1383 Regulations and helps reduce food insecurity by requiring commercial edible food generators to arrange to have the maximum amount of their edible food, that would otherwise be disposed of, be recovered for human consumption.
F. The requirements in this chapter are consistent with other adopted goals and policies of the City of Murrieta.
(Ord. 575 § 2, 2022)