1. Santa Barbara County 440,000 residents $2 billion tourism dollars
$3 billion agricultural industry
1000 restaurants
150,000 tons organics landfilled
2,700 square miles
1 food composting facility

2. AB 1826 – Overview
Goal: phased elimination of landfilled “organics” “Organics” defined as food, green waste, non-hazardous wood waste and food-soiled paper Multi-Family subject only to green waste portion of the law Green Waste a minor issue – food is the challenge

3. AB 1826 – Jurisdiction Responsibilities
Plan by January 2016: Program design Customer identification Outreach Reporting – added to Electronic Annual Report Complex – 55 pages of Q & A online No enforcement or penalties at this time

4. AB 1826
Enforcement, penalties, pricing incentives optional Exemptions can be granted “Case-by-Case” Methodology to determine affected businesses is flexible Agencies are tasked with overcoming barriers to success

5. Options for Customer Identification
Employee based tool
Waste Characterization - 36% the organics default
Santa Barbara has developed its own system
Other options acceptable if reasonable
Options can be combined
Law fuzzy on shared services like in strip malls

6. Customer Identification - Sorting

7. AB 1826 – Outreach

8. Education & Monitoring: On Site

9. Monitoring: Load Checks

10. Organics – Beneficial Reuse

11. Food Forward

12. Food Forward

13. Tajiguas Resource Recovery Project
Regional effort
Transparent process
Recycling recovery
Organics transformation
Energy production
Diversion increased to 85%+
GHG impact = removal of 24,000 cars