Ord 2021-012 adding 3-24 Organics Reduction

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(1) Owners of facilities, operations, and activities that recover Organic Waste, including, but not limited to, compost facilities, in -vessel digestion facilities, and publicly -owned treatment works shall, upon request from the WMA, provide within 60 days information regarding available and potential new or expanded capacity at their facilities, operations, and activities, including information about throughput and permitted capacity necessary for planning purposes. (2) Community Composting operators shall, upon request from the WMA, provide within 60 days information to support Organic Waste capacity planning, including, but not limited to, an estimate of the amount of Organic Waste anticipated to be handled at the Community Composting operation. (3) The Enforcement Agency for the provisions of this Section 3-24-800(b) is the WMA and any Designee of the WMA. 3-24-900 Requirements for Self -Haulers (a) Self -Haulers shall source separate all recyclable materials and Organic Waste (materials that the Member Agency otherwise requires generators to separate for collection in the Member Agency's organics and recycling collection program) generated or handled on - site from Solid Waste in a manner consistent with 14 CCR Sections 18984.1 and 18984.2, or shall haul Organic Waste to a High Diversion Organic Waste Processing Facility as specified in 14 CCR Section 18984.3. (b) Self -Haulers shall haul their Source Separated Recyclable Materials to a facility that recovers those materials; and haul their Source Separated Compost Container Organic Waste to a Solid Waste facility, operation, activity, or property that processes or recovers Source Separated Organic Waste. Alternatively, Self -Haulers may haul Organic Waste to a High Diversion Organic Waste Processing Facility. Self -Haulers may Back -haul to a destination owned and operated by the generator using the generator's own employees and equipment and then haul those consolidated materials to facilities meeting the requirements of this subsection (b). (c) Self -Haulers that are Commercial Businesses (including Multi -Family Residential Dwellings) shall keep a record of the amount of Organic Waste delivered to each Solid Waste facility, operation, activity, or property that processes or recovers Organic Waste; this record shall be subject to Inspection by the Enforcement Agency. The records shall include the following information: (1) Delivery receipts and weight tickets from the entity accepting the material. (2) The amount of material in cubic yards or tons transported by the generator to each entity. (3) If the material is transported to an entity that does not have scales on -site, or employs scales incapable of weighing the Self-Hauler's vehicle in a manner that allows it to determine the weight of materials received, the Self -Hauler is not