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), paper shredding and compost distribution event on Saturday April 25. A HW event for businesses was held on Friday April 24. UVWMA’s HW collections contractor, Clean Earth, collected HW dropped off by the public. Upper Valley Disposal Services (UVDS) collected e-waste, a subcontractor of UVDS provided paper shredding. E-waste collection and paper shredding were provided at no additional cost, due to the franchise agreement with UVDS. UVWMA has received and paid for the invoice from Clean Earth for the event, the cost totaled $23,889.85. Included in the cost is mobilization of Clean Earth for the temporary event and disposal of collected hazardous wastes.
Zero businesses utilized the business event on Friday April 24. On Saturday April 25, residents from each of the UVWMA member jurisdictions participated in the household HW collection. See Attachment A - 2026 Rutherford Event Data for survey data from the event. There were 218 attendees at this event, a 6% decrease from the 2025 event with 233 attendees.
52.5 cubic yards of compost were distributed to 28 residents, counting towards the annual SB 1383 required organic product procurement target for UVWMA.
UVWMA staff have scheduled the fall HW collection events at the Calistoga Fairgrounds for Friday November 13 1:00pm - 4:00pm (business) and Saturday November 14 8:00am - 1:00pm (residential).
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 are 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.
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 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 February 2, 2028.
CALRECYCLE - The CalRecycle Electronic Annual Report (EAR) for UVWMA is due on 8/3/26. UVWMA staff will complete the report on or before the due date. UVWMA reports on activities relating to compliance with AB 939, AB 1826, AB 341 and SB 1383.
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 worked with SCS Engineers to finalize a field methodology plan that includes how many samples will be taken and a list of what items will be sorted, evaluated and documented. The waste characterization, or the on the ground sorting and categorizing of waste, will take place July 13-17 at Clover Flat Landfill and July 9-10 at the Devlin Road Transfer Station.
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.
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 are scheduled for July. Recycle, compost and landfill carts will be inspected at a total of 120 residential accounts. Previously audits were split evenly between jurisdictions. This year staff are considering weighting the audits based on the number of accounts, with the following order from most to least audits: Napa County, St Helena, Calistoga, Yountville. If contaminates are found, educational tags will be left on the cart informing the resident of the error. Commercial lid flips will begin after the residential routes are completed, approximately 30 commercial accounts will be inspected.
UVWMA continues outreach, education and assistance to ensure Tier One and Tier Two commercial edible food donors are compliant with SB 1383 requirements. To date, seven of nine Tier One and 11 of 13 Tier Two commercial edible food donors are compliant with the requirements, with an overall compliance total of 81%.
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.
UVWMA is partnering with the City of Napa and Napa County to execute an agreement with Abound Food Care. In 2022, Abound Food Care was selected after a competitive RFQ process to complete the SB 1383 required food recovery capacity assessment. Staff have identified a need to work with a food recovery expert to determine the current capacity for SB 1383 required edible food recovery, determine if/how much the aforementioned grants expanded capacity and suggest how to best expand capacity if needed. Costs for the grant will be shared based on number required donors, likely 28% UVWMA, 20% Napa County and 52% City of Napa. At the time of agenda publish, UVWMA staff have not yet received a total cost estimate for the project, an update will be provided at a future meeting.
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 took place on May 16, 2026 at the up valley campus. This was a dual workshop, where attendees choose to either learn about backyard composting or worm composting. There were only six attendees at this workshop, a decrease from the 2025 workshop with 16 attendees. One compost workshop remains for 2026, scheduled for September 19, 2026 in the City of Napa.
LITTER FROM SOLID WASTE HAULING TRUCKS - UVDS estimates they receive and investigate two legitimate reports annually of litter coming from their hauling vehicles. If a report of litter is called in, and contact information is not provided, UVDS does not have a way to track and retain the reports for future reference. If a report is called into UVDS, UVDS staff obtain the callers location information and then check an internal tracking system to verify if it is a UVDS truck. When litter coming from a solid waste hauling truck occurs, the typical culprit is that the hopper (receptacle in the truck that holds the materials) is too full. UVDS drivers are informed not to let that happen and to pull over and call management staff if litter does come from the vehicle while on route. UVDS will clean up the litter if it occurs and is reported.
UVDS prevents litter from debris box hauling trucks by covering the load and asking customers to remove extra materials if a debris box is called in for service and it is overfull. UVDS drivers are instructed to not empty overfull bins or carts as this often causes litter to spill into the street. To prevent litter coming from regular route trucks, UVDS drivers are instructed to not overfill the hopper and they clean trucks daily to remove leftover materials in traps and parts that may come out while on the road.
If you see a UVDS truck with litter or materials coming out of it: The California Department of Motor Vehicles requires any vehicles transporting solid waste to have the load secured or covered to avoid waste spilling out on the roads. This applies to UVDS trucks, long debris boxes you may see being hauled by UVDS and private vehicles with loads of solid waste. UVDS trucks are permitted and inspected by the Local Enforcement Agency (LEA). Tarps are part of the annual inspection. Trucks with holes in the tarp that cannot be repaired immediately are taken off the route until repaired or replaced.
If you see a vehicle with materials coming out of it, the vehicle(s) is on the road and the load is an immediate threat, call 911. If the concern is a small amount of recycling or trash being released and it is not an immediate threat, call UVDS. It is helpful to get a truck number or license plate. Include the date/time and location so the facility can determine the vehicle that needs repair. If the problem persists, you can file a complaint online (https://survey123.arcgis.com/share/d7a4c80fbb8043278e55c80dcdd8d72b) with Napa County and the LEA with follow up. The information, including a clickable link for filing an online complaint, for ease of access can be found at napacounty.gov/UVWMA
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.