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Waste Disposal
With the largest residential curbside recycling program in the United States, the city of Los Angeles collects a variety of recyclables from over 750,000 households every week. [1] With the inception of the Assembly Bill 939 in 1989, which mandated every local jurisdiction in California to reduce their 1990 baseline waste by 25% by the year 1995, and 50% by the year 2000, the City of Los Angeles City Council instructed the Board of Public Works and the Bureau of Sanitation to design and implement a Citywide Curbside Recycling Program. [2] Following an immensely successful pilot program that utilized manual recycling collection trucks, the City transformed their fleet of recycling collection vehicles completely into automated recycling collection vehicles. [3] As a result, 45% of the waste produced in Los Angeles is diverted into recycled waste, and Los Angeles was heralded in the March 2, 2009 issue of Waste and Recycling News as having the highest recycling rate out of the 10 largest U.S. cities. [4]
With the largest residential curbside recycling program in the United States, the city of Los Angeles collects a variety of recyclables from over 750,000 households every week. [1] With the inception of the Assembly Bill 939 in 1989, which mandated every local jurisdiction in California to reduce their 1990 baseline waste by 25% by the year 1995, and 50% by the year 2000, the City of Los Angeles City Council instructed the Board of Public Works and the Bureau of Sanitation to design and implement a Citywide Curbside Recycling Program. [2] Following an immensely successful pilot program that utilized manual recycling collection trucks, the City transformed their fleet of recycling collection vehicles completely into automated recycling collection vehicles. [3] As a result, 45% of the waste produced in Los Angeles is diverted into recycled waste, and Los Angeles was heralded in the March 2, 2009 issue of Waste and Recycling News as having the highest recycling rate out of the 10 largest U.S. cities. [4]
References
1. "Curbside Recycling Program." City of Los Angeles Bureau of Sanitation. Retrieved 2013-07-15. <http://www.lacitysan.org/solid_resources/recycling/curbside/Curbsi de_Recycling.htm>. 2. "History of California Solid Waste Law, 1985-1989." CalRecycle. Retrieved 2013-07-15. <http://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/Laws/Legislation/calhist/1985to1989.h tm>. |
3. Hackney, Daniel (November 1, 1997). "Blue joins black in Los Angeles. (automated recycling collection program)." World Wastes. Retrieved 2013-07-15. <http://business.highbeam.com/3684/article-1G1- 20162683/blue-joins-black-los-angeles>. 4. Bartholomew, Dana and Orlov, Rick. "Report says LA has the best rate of recycling among large US cities." Daily News: Los Angeles. Retrieved 2013-07-15. <http://www.dailynews.com/ci_16620790>. |