TO: Board of Directors
FROM: Amanda Griffis - Supervising Environmental Resource Specialist
REPORT BY: Amanda Griffis - Supervising Environmental Resource Specialist
SUBJECT: California Integrated Waste Management Act
RECOMMENDATION
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CALIFORNIA INTEGRATED WASTE MANAGEMENT ACT
DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION: Staff to provide an update on the status of activities relevant to the Act.
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BACKGROUND
WASTE REDUCTION, RECYCLING, HAZARDOUS WASTE PROGRAMS UPDATE
HAZARDOUS WASTE COLLECTIONS - Upper Valley Waste Management Agency (UVWMA) staff have scheduled the spring hazardous waste (HW) collection event for Friday April 24 1:00pm - 4:00pm (business) and Saturday April 25 8:00am - 1:00pm (residential), to take place at the Upper Valley Compost & Recycling Yard in Rutherford. In addition to HW, residents can drop off electronic waste, documents for shredding and pick up free compost.
UVWMA’s HW collections contractor Clean Earth will mobilize for the temporary event, collect and dispose of HW dropped off by the public. UVWMA pays a flat fee for mobilization based on the number of cars that use the event. Businesses will schedule appointments and pay disposal costs for their materials, residents are not charged a fee and are not required to schedule appointments. UVWMA will pay for HW disposed of by residents.
Electronic waste will be collected by Upper Valley Disposal Service (UVDS) and document shredding will be provided by a third-party vendor during the hazardous waste event. The electronic waste collection and document shredding are one of the three times per year events provided by UVDS per the franchise agreement. The electronic waste collection and document shredding will be for residents only, not businesses. UVWMA will not pay separate fees for the electronic waste collection and document shredding.
The max per drop off for hazardous waste is due to state law, it is 15 gallons or 125 pounds per vehicle for both businesses and residents. The maximum drop off for document shredding will be five banker boxes. Residents may pick up compost in their own vehicle or container, there is a maximum of one cubic yard per resident. UVWMA will pay for compost distributed to the public, counting towards the annual SB 1383 required organic product procurement target.
Flyers for the event are included as Attachment A - Rutherford HW Event 2026 - Residential and Attachment B - Rutherford HW Event 2026 - Business.
UVWMA completed the required Department of Toxic Substances Control electronic Verification Questionnaire (eVQ) report in March. The report included both EPA ID numbers UVWMA utilizes for the temporary HW collection events and the total tons collected at each event.
SHARPS AND MEDICATIONS DISPOSAL - SB 212 requires pharmaceutical companies to run statewide stewardship programs that provide safe and convenient disposal options for pharmaceutical and home-generated sharps waste at no cost to the consumer. Medication collections will be available in receptacles and via pre paid mail back options at no cost to consumers. Sharps will be collected via a secure mail back container at no cost to consumers. Secure sharps mail back containers are to be provided at the point of sale or with five days by stewardship programs and containers can also be requested online. More information on these programs can be found at napacounty.gov/hazwaste.
In addition to the above mentioned stewardship programs, Clean Earth accepts non-controlled medications and sharps at up-valley hazardous waste collection events. Clover Flat Landfill accepts sharps at no charge during regular business hours. A medication collection bin is located at the St. Helena, Calistoga and Yountville Police Department; non-controlled and controlled medications are accepted.
Since the implementation of SB 212, UVWMA has been ordering sharps mail back containers in bulk, at no charge, from one of the SB 212 program operators Drug Take Back Solutions. Drug Take Back Solutions will no longer be operating SB 212 sharps and medications take back programs as of July 2026. The remaining program operator, MED-Project, does not offer the option for jurisdictions to order sharps mail back containers in bulk as it is not required by the statute. UVWMA plans to promote the mail back options offered at no cost by MED-Project, rather than offering to provide the container directly to residents at household hazardous waste events or other community events.
BEVERAGE CONTAINER RECYCLING PROGRAM - UVWMA applies as a regional agency for payments that CalRecycle issues for beverage container recycling programs. Staff use the $25,000 of funds for beverage container recycling and litter reduction activities. Examples include the purchase of recycling bins for public buildings, community parks, main streets, businesses, schools and public gathering areas, and expenditures related to the installation of water refill stations. UVWMA staff have completed expending the “FY 2023-24” funding cycle and submitted the required report to CalRecycle in March. UVWMA has begun expending the “FY 2024-25” funding cycle, funds can be expended thru January 5, 2027. UVWMA have received the payment for the “FY 2025-26” funding cycle, funds can be expended between early 2026 (after award) and January 5, 2028.
CALRECYCLE - UVWMA received notice from CalRecycle’s Local Assistance and Market Development Branch that the Jurisdiction and Agency Compliance and Enforcement Branch (JACE) will soon reach out to UVWMA for a SB 1383 compliance evaluation. This will include an inspection of all SB 1383 required records from January 1, 2022 to date. UVWMA staff have continued preparing the required records, with the assistance of UVDS and member jurisdiction staff. UVWMA staff received the notice of a forthcoming records inspection in December 2025 but have not yet received the official notice from JACE of a scheduled due date for the records inspection. Jurisdictions who have received compliance evaluation notices and statuses of those reviews can be found on the CalRecycle website: https://calrecycle.ca.gov/organics/slcp/enforcement/calrecycleenforcement/
Staff have continued expenditures towards the CalRecycle SB 1383 local assistance grant. The grant cycle closes on November 1, 2026 and the final report is due on that same date.
In February, the UVWMA board approved an agreement for a maximum of $90,000 with SCS Engineers for a waste characterization study. The funding for this agreement is from the CalRecycle SB 1383 local assistance grant. UVWMA applied for this grant as the lead. The grant awarded funding based on population, as such UVWMA applied as the lead with the entirety of the unincorporated area of Napa County participating as well. The awarded funding is to be expended throughout the UVWMA area and all Napa County unincorporated areas. UVWMA and Napa County staff have begun working with SCS Engineers to execute the scope of work in the agreement. The waste characterization, or the on the ground sorting and categorizing of waste, is tentatively scheduled to take place in July at Clover Flat Landfill and the Devlin Road Transfer Station. UVWMA staff will provide further updates at future board meetings.
SB 1383 IMPLEMENTATION - UVWMA and UVDS staff continue work together to reach out directly via phone, email and site visit to non-compliant accounts to provide education and assistance with meeting SB 1383 organics recycling requirements.
UVWMA continues outreach, education and assistance to ensure Tier One and Tier Two commercial edible food donors are compliant with SB 1383 requirements. UVWMA will continue to partner with Napa County and the City of Napa to meet with food recovery organizations and services to ensure information is up to date on what they can accept and they are aware of and meeting SB 1383 requirements.
In summer 2024, UVWMA partnered with the City of Napa and Napa County to release funding to expand the countywide capacity for edible food recovery. Two projects were awarded, $50,000 to Feeding it Forward (FIF) to retrofit an electric van with refrigeration and $40,000 to Community Action of Napa Valley (CANV) to purchase a vehicle to pick up smaller loads of excess edible food. Both the FIF and CANV grant agreements end in June 2026. CANV requested reimbursement and received payment for $40,000 in October 2025. To date, FIF has requested reimbursement and received payment for $42,388.62 of their awarded $50,000.
In March, UVWMA signed on to a coalition letter to support a request to the State of California for ongoing funding for food recovery in the state budget. A copy of the letter is included as Attachment C - Food Recovery Budget Request - Coalition.
OUTREACH - UVWMA’s multi family dwelling outreach consultant, Soluna Outreach Solutions, has continued with outreach and education to multi family dwelling managers and owners on SB 1383 requirements in English and Spanish.
BUSINESS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM - UVWMA and UVDS offer free assistance to any business requesting help in improving waste diversion, it is also available to any business working to become complaint with SB 1383 and is often offered in the initial direct outreach to businesses who are notified they are not compliant with SB 1383. Assistance includes: a walk through to assess needs, UVDS suggested service changes to allow for compliance with SB 1383, recycling and composting interior bins, staff trainings, interior and exterior signs, interior bins stickers and on going support. Businesses may request assistance by calling UVDS at 707-963-7988 or emailing UVWMA at upvalleyrecycles@countyofnapa.org.
ZERO WASTE EVENT SUPPORT - UVWMA staff have created and made available a Request for Zero Waste Event Support application. The purpose of the form is to request from UVWMA a one-time reimbursement of up to $250 for efforts relating to making events that are free and open to the public zero or low waste. Reimbursements for the following items will be considered: temporary recycling and/or compost service, temporary bins for waste sorting stations, clear bags for recycling or compostable bags for compost, compostable service ware and signs for bins. The application was included in the October 2022 agenda packet, requests can be made via email to upvalleyrecycles@countyofnapa.org.
HOME COMPOSTING WORKSHOPS - Workshop co-sponsors, UVWMA, Napa County, City of Napa, and Napa County Master Gardeners have scheduled countywide 2026 workshop dates. The up valley workshop is May 16, 2026 at the up valley campus. The up valley compost workshop will be a dual workshop again, where attendees choose to either learn about backyard composting or worm composting.
New this year, to encourage commitment to using and continued use of worm compost bins, there will be a fee of $10 for a worm composting kit, that workshop attendees will set up with Napa County Master Gardeners. The approximate per bin cost for the worm composting kit is $35, the difference will be paid for by Napa County. Backyard compost bin costs remain the same at $20, the average retail value of backyard compost bins is $80 and the different is paid for by the City of Napa.
FISCAL & STRATEGIC PLAN IMPACT
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Is there a Fiscal Impact? |
No |
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINATION: The proposed action is not a project as defined by 14 California
Code of Regulations 15378 (State CEQA Guidelines) and therefore CEQA is not applicable.