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) held a hazardous waste (HW), electronic waste (e-waste) and paper shredding event on Saturday November 2 at the fairgrounds in Calistoga. A HW event for businesses was held on Friday November 1. UVWMA’s HW collections contractor, Clean Earth, collected HW dropped off by the public. Upper Valley Disposal & Recycling (UVD&R) collected e-waste, a subcontractor of UVD&R provided paper shredding. E-waste collection and paper shredding was provided at no additional cost, due to the franchise agreement with UVD&R. UVWMA staff been notified of the cost of the event by Clean Earth but have not received the invoice yet, the cost totaled $22,970.68. Included in the cost is mobilization of Clean Earth for the temporary event and disposal of collected hazardous wastes.
Zero businesses made an appointment for disposal of hazardous materials on Friday, November 1. On Saturday November 2, residents from each of the UVWMA member communities participated in the household HW collection. See Attachment A - 2024 Calistoga Event Data for survey data from the event.
Staff are working to schedule the spring HW collection event for Friday April 25, 2025 1:00pm - 4:00pm (business) and Saturday April 26, 2025 8:00am - 1:00pm (residential), to take place at the Upper Valley Compost & Recycling Yard. In addition to HW, staff are working to add electronic waste collection and paper shredding for residents during the April 26 event. Residents may also pick up compost at no charge during the April 26 event.
SHARPS AND MEDICATIONS DISPOSAL - SB 212 requires pharmaceutical companies to pay for a statewide medication and sharps take back program. SB 212 was approved by the Office of Administrative Law on January 7, 2021. The regulations were effective immediately. Manufacturers are required 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. A countywide flyer on SB 212, set up for print distribution, is included as Attachment B - SB 212 Flyer Print.
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.
An unused medications and sharps collection event was held on October 26, 2024. There were six locations countywide; including Calistoga, St Helena and Yountville. In south Napa County, there were collection sites at Kaiser in the City of Napa, the Napa County Sheriff Department office and the American Canyon Police Department. Weights of medications collected: Calistoga 196lbs, Yountville 19lbs and St Helena 77 lbs. 43-gal containers for sharps were provided to each up valley location. The countywide total for sharps collected was 547.6lbs or 14 containers.
The DEA funds medication disposal costs. Napa County Sheriff staff transported all collected medications from the up valley sites to the destruction location. UVWMA funded pick up and disposal costs for the sharps collected up valley but have a reimbursement request into one of SB 212’s program operators, Inmar.
BEVERAGE CONTAINER RECYCLING PROGRAM - UVWMA applies as a regional agency for payments that CalRecycle issues for beverage container recycling programs. Staff uses 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, recycling at public and private events, and related publicity and education. UVWMA have submitted an application for the “FY 2024-25” funding cycle, the application has been recommended for payment by CalRecycle staff. Payment is expected to be received in April 2025. Funds can be expended between early 2025 (after award) and January 5, 2027.
CALRECYCLE - Each year, CalRecycle Local Assistance and Market Development (LAMD) staff conduct a conference call and site visit with jurisdictions. UVWMA’s conference call took place on December 4, 2024 and covered SB 1383 implementation. The site visit is scheduled for December 12, 2024. UVWMA staff will bring CalRecycle staff to meet with UVD&R staff to discuss outreach and collaborative efforts, drive thru a neighborhood with carts set out, visit a multifamily dwelling that is composting and visit several commercial accounts.
UVWMA staff completed expenditures for the first cycle of CalRecycle’s SB 1383 Local Assistance Grant Program funding, total award was $95,370 and the grant closed on November 1, 2024. Staff submitted the required final report on November 1, 2024. UVWMA staff have begun expenditures towards the second cycle of CalRecycle’s SB 1383 Local Assistance Grant Program. UVWMA was approved for the funding, the check for $300,000 has been received and UVWMA’s proposed plan for use of the funding has been approved by CalRecycle.
SB 1383 requires counties to assess, in collaboration with local cities and waste agencies, the amount of organics processing facility capacity and food recovery capacity available to jurisdictions within the county. Napa County identified a need for new or expanded edible food recovery capacity in every jurisdiction in Napa County in the recent planning period of 2025 - 2034. Jurisdictions that lack capacity were required to submit an implementation schedule to CalRecycle detailing how jurisdictions will access new or expand edible food recovery capacity. Included is Attachment C - Edible Food Recovery Capacity Implementation Schedule. All cities in Napa County and Napa County collaborated to create and submit the same implementation schedule. Napa County will continue to lead countywide edible food recovery efforts.
Napa County is a member of the National Stewardship Action Foundation’s (NSAC) SB 54 implementation working group, included is a SB 54 comment letter submitted to CalRecycle by NSAC - Attachment D - NSAC Coalition Comment Letter.
BUSINESS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM - UVWMA and UVD&R offer free assistance to any business requesting help in improving waste version, 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, UVD&R 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 UVD&R at 707-963-7988 or emailing UVWMA at upvalleyrecycles@countyofnapa.org.
UVWMA and UVD&R are preparing the annual all commercial account mailer, which will be mailed to all commercial accounts in early 2025. The mailer includes information on the requirements of SB 1383 as well as the available business assistance program.
SB 1383 IMPLEMENTATION - UVWMA and UVD&R continue work together to reach out individually via phone, email and site visit to non-compliant accounts to provide education and assistance with meeting organics recycling requirements.
SB 1383 requires jurisdictions to meet container contamination minimization requirements. One way to meet these requirements is by conducting route reviews of all hauler routes for prohibited container contaminants once per year. Within routes, containers may be randomly selected along the route for further inspection and enough containers must be inspected in to order to adequately determine overall compliance. This further inspection is typically called “lid flips”. Residential lid flips were completed along residential routes in June and July, a summary of findings is included as Attachment E - Residential Audits 2024. Commercial route reviews will be conducted throughout the rest of the calendar year 2024. A summary of findings will be included at a future board meeting.
UVWMA plans to procure organic products (compost) on behalf of member jurisdictions to meet procurement targets. SB 1383 local assistance grant funding will be used to pay for compost purchases. The total target for 2024, which is 65% of the actual target per the SB 1383 regulations, is 2,822 cubic yards or 1,130 tons. The targets for 2025 are no longer reduced, the target for 2025 will be 4,343 cubic yards or 1,737 tons.
UVWMA will send the SB 1383 required annual notices to all Tier 1 and Tier 2 mandated food donors up valley in December.
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.
Up Valley Family Center was approved for a reimbursement for zero waste event supplies in November 2024, for their annual Dia de los Muertos event in St Helena. The reimbursement was for compost and recycle carts from Upper Valley Disposal & Recycling, as well as waste sorting stations. Estimated event attendance was over nearly 600 and the diversion rate was 66%.
NAPA COUNTY BICYCLE COALITION - UVWMA staff are collaborating with the Napa County Bicycle Coalition to tag garbage/recycle/compost carts that are left in bike lanes for extended periods of time, presenting a danger to bicyclists. The initial area where carts will be tagged include Yountville Cross Road and Zinfandel Lane. A copy of the sticker that will go on the carts and tag that will be attached to the handle are included as Attachment F - Bike lane cart tags.
HOME COMPOSTING WORKSHOPS - Workshop co-sponsors, UVWMA, Napa County, City of Napa, and Napa County Master Gardeners are working to schedule countywide 2025 workshop dates. The up valley workshop for 2025 has been scheduled for May 18, 2025 at the up valley campus. This early scheduling will allow for extra promotion of the event in the Up Valley College spring schedule. The up valley compost workshop will be a dual workshop again, where attendees choose to either learn about backyard composting or worm composting.
FISCAL & STRATEGIC PLAN IMPACT
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Is there a Fiscal Impact? |
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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.