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ATTACHMENT B ORDINANCE 2012-1 AN ORDINANCE REQUIRING ACTIONS TO REDUCE LANDFILLING OF RECYCLABLE AND ORGANIC SOLID WASTES FROM BUSINESSES, MULTI- FAMILY RESIDENCES, AND SELF HAULERS 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 15. SECTION 2 (Findings) (a) The purpose of this Ordinance is to reduce the amount of recyclable and organic solid wastes deposited in landfills from businesses, multi-family residences, and self haulers. (b) The Authority has the power to adopt ordinances necessary to carry out the purposes of the Joint Exercise of Powers Agreement for Waste Management ("JPA"). The JPA provides the Authority the power, duty, and responsibility to prepare, adopt, revise, amend, administer, enforce and implement the County Integrated Waste Management Plan("CoIWMP"), and Section 5.m of the JPA specifically enumerates the power to adopt ordinances necessary to carry out the purposes of the JPA. (c) The prohibition of certain recyclable and compostable materials at Alameda County landfills is necessary to carry out the purposes of the JPA and Implement the CoIWMP, including the following goals and policies. 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." Objective 2.1 is to "achieve countywide waste reduction of 75 percent by 2010." Objective 2.4 is to reduce the amount of readily recyclable and compostable materials originating in Alameda County and deposited in landfills to no more than 10% of total materials originating in Alameda County and landfilled by 2020. (d) The State of California through its Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989, Assembly Bill 939 (AB 939), required that each local jurisdiction significantly increase its diversion of discarded materials from landfills to 50% by December 31, 2000, and thereafter maintain or exceed that diversion rate. (e) The Waste Reduction and Recycling Act of 1990 (Measure D), a chanter amendment passed by the voters of Alameda County, established the Alameda County Source Reduction and Recycling Board and the policy goal of reducing 1