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ORDINANCE 2012-2 AN ORDINANCE TO REGULATE THE USE OF CARRYOUT BAGS AND PROMOTE THE USE OF REUSABLE BAGS The Board of the Alameda County Waste Management Authority ("Authority") ordains as follows: SECTION 1 (Enactment) The Board of the Authority does hereby enact this Ordinance in full consisting of Section 1 through Section 11. SECTION 2 (Findings) (a) The purpose of this Ordinance is to reduce the use of single use carryout bags and promote the use of reusable bags at the point of sale in Alameda County. (b) The Authority has the power to enact this Ordinance pursuant to the Joint Exercise of Powers Agreement for Waste Management ("JPA"). The JPA grants the Authority the power, duty, and responsibility to prepare, adopt, revise, amend, administer, enforce and implement the County Integrated Waste Management Plan ("CoIWMP"), and pursuant to Section 5.m of the CoIWMP, the power to adopt ordinances necessary to carry out the purposes of the JPA. (c) Reducing single use bag use is reasonably necessary to carry out the purposes of the JPA and implement the Col WMP, including the following goals and policies. (d) Goal 1 of the Col WMP is to promote environmental quality, ensure protection of public health and safety, and to minimize environmental impacts in all aspects of solid waste management. Policy 1.4.1 includes reduction of hard to recycle materials. (e) Goal 2 of the CoIWMP calls on the Authority and its member agencies to "achieve maximum feasible waste reduction" and to "reduce the amount of waste disposed at landfills through improved management and conservation of resources." (f) Policy 2.1.1 adopts a waste management hierarchy that ranks management of waste through source reduction and then recycling and composting above landfill disposal. (g) Goal 7 of the CoIWWP is to "Promote Inter-jurisdictional Cooperation." Policy 7.1.3 states that the Authority shall coordinate with other organizations as needed to fulfill its countywide role including coordinating on related issues such as water and litter. Objective 7.8 states that the Authority will coordinate and facilitate program implementation by individual or subregional groupings of member agencies. 1 71