Dec 11 - Recycling to Play Critical Role in State's Landmark Global Warming Plan


Submitted by Scott Smithline on December 11, 2008 - 17:10.

CAW joins California’s environmental leaders in supporting the adoption of the AB 32 Scoping Plan.The California Air Resources Board voted to implement a mandatory commercial recycling program as part of its adoption today of  the AB 32 Scoping Plan, the blueprint for implementing California’s landmark global warming legislation. The ARB also highlighted the importance of providing financial incentives and working with local governments to implement recycling programs.   

CAW spearheaded a two-year effort to ensure recycling was appropriately represented in the Scoping Plan, and we were pleased to learn that the state has identified recycling as one of the key strategies that will help California achieve its goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 (a reduction of 174 million tons of CO2). CAW is particularly proud of the leadership role that the ARB and CIWMB have taken with regards to commercial recycling, specifically with the following improvement that was made from earlier drafts of this plan:

More broadly, the state has prioritized the following greenhouse gas reduction measures in the plan:

  • The state will require commercial businesses, a sector of the economy that has historically lacked adequate recycling services, to recycle.
  • The state will adopt landfill regulations that will reduce the climate impact of these facilities and protect public health, safety, and the environment.
  • The state will provide direct incentives for the use of compost and mulch in landscaping and agriculture, resulting in reduced irrigation demand, less emissions at landfills, and decrease in fertilizer and pesticide usage.
  • The state will build on the innovative success of local governments by encouraging food scrap composting and anaerobic digestion statewide.
  • The state will evaluate opportunities for climate benefits from Extended Producer Responsibility.
  • State agencies will also take a leadership role and reduce their own climate impact through Environmentally Preferred Purchasing and public education.

The ARB estimates that these measures will result in a reduction of at least 10 million tons of carbon dioxide. CAW believes that the measures adopted today clearly position California to continue to serve as a national model for recycling policy.

 

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Submitted by earugo on January 19, 2009 - 12:41.

i only wonder if any one could possibly see the good in looking to the people in our own back yards to help us with this i am not sure but to my understanding the trash here is legally protected from the people whom live off of it im sure youve seen them  the kindly old man pushing all his belongings and a healthy dose of your recyclables in a shopping cart down your alleyway its him who you should look too shed some light on our land fill woes the erattic young lady with no shoes on mixmatch leggins sticking out of the apartement dumpster hey isnt she some one you went to school with   it reminds me of a story this tem of good hearted social workers took a fellow of the street thy gave him his own home they gave him a job they gave him vouchers for clothes they gave him food for the cupboards and then kicked him back out on the street when he shared this with all the folks on the street still if only those people who set this all up for him had spent a moment in need instead of 4 years in school ive been on the street for more of less 15 years and i coulda told you in a second that was what the fellow would do its just common sence to me but the social workers were apauled by the fact that he left his door open i say that we need to look to this story if we are ever going to clean up our act its the people in the dregs of society we will be hurting in this country if all we do is crerate more laws about this and that if we look for a better way of dealing with our waste then lets make it a full circle