• SB 1383 Recycling Websites

     

    SB 1383 - New Compost and Recycling Law

    To help reduce harmful greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change, California state law SB 1383 will go into effect on January 1, 2022. The new law requires schools to keep compostable and recyclable material out of landfills. 

    There are four main steps that school districts must take to comply with the new law:

    1. If you aren't already subscribed, sign up your district facilities and schools for compost and recycling service by January 1, 2022.
    2. Place color-coded and labeled recycle and compost bins next to all garbage bins (not required in restrooms). 
    3. Sort materials into the proper bins - recycle, compost, and garbage. 
    4. Educate students and employees about proper sorting and check bins periodically to ensure proper sorting. 

    Food Recovery and Donation: In addition to sorting requirements, by January 1, 2024, schools must recover and donate their surplus edible food to feed people. Schools will be required to have an agreement with a food recovery organization that can accept their surplus edible food. Find more information about StopWaste resources for food waste prevention and food recovery - Food Waste Prevention at School. 

    For California public schools, the new state law will be implemented and enforced by CalRecycle, in partnership with local haulers, StopWaste, and the Alameda County Environmental Health Department. 

    For more information on SB 1383, visit www.CalRecycle.ca.gov/organics/SLCP/schools.

  • California SB 1383 Implementation: Collections Systems Training-Colors and Labels

    California SB 1383 Implementation: Collections Systems Training-Colors and Labels

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  • CalRecycle - Education and School Waste Reduction Programs

    Environmental Education Resources

    Learn more about sustainability careers that design the world’s environmental solutions, create socially responsible public policy, and develop environmentally conscious businesses. The Sustainability Degrees website offers information about clean energy, clean technology, sustainable business, and green business careers and details about the types of degrees you can study in preparation.

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  • CalRecycle SB 1383 Resources

    This webpage provides a list of all training materials, tools, guidance documents, and other helpful resources that have been developed by the Department or that other entities have developed. These materials may be helpful to jurisdictions as they implement their organic waste recycling and edible food recovery programs.  

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  • CalRecycle SLCP Schools

    Resources for Local Education Agencies (LEA): K-12 Public School and School Districts

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  • CalRecycle SLCP Strategy

    California is now experiencing the effects of a climate crisis: hotter summers with world record-breaking temperatures, even more devastating fire seasons, more extreme droughts, and rising sea levels that erode our coastlines.

    Scientists tell us that greenhouse gasses released by human activities, like landfilling food and yard waste, cause climate change.

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  • Northern California Recycling Association (NCRA)

    The mission of NCRA has evolved beyond recycling advocacy to the inclusion of materials discards management via twenty-first-century Zero Waste principles and practices. Our broader mission is to End Waste.

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  • Recology Waste Zero

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  • Recycling Links (from O. Berk Company)

    Provides a variety of links relating to the recycling of glass, plastics, metals, and much more.

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  • Sustainability Degrees

    What is Sustainability? - Sustainability is the practice of meeting the needs of people and organizations today without harming future generations.

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