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Attachment 1 <br /> DRAFT <br /> 4114116 <br /> Proposed Expanded Reusable Bags Ordinance. <br /> This document shows how Alameda County Waste Management Authority Ordinance <br /> 2012-2 would be amended if the Board approves expansion of its scope to include all <br /> stores and public eating establishments. <br /> ORDINANCE 2012-2 <br /> AS AMENDED BY ORDINANCE 20164 <br /> (Scheduled for introduction September 28,2016) <br /> ORDINANCE REGULATING THE USE OF CARRYOUT BAGS <br /> AND PROMOTING THE USE OF REUSABLE BAGS <br /> The Board of the Alameda County Waste Management Authority("Authority") ordains as <br /> follows: <br /> SECTION 1 (Enactment) <br /> The Board of the Authority does hereby enact this Ordinance in full consisting of Section 1 <br /> through Section 141Q. <br /> SECTION 2 (Findings) <br /> (a) The purpose of this Ordinance is to reduce the use of single use carryout bags and <br /> promote the use of reusable bags at the point of sale in Alameda County. <br /> (b) The Authority has the power to enact this Ordinance pursuant to the Joint Exercise of <br /> Powers Agreement for Waste Management("JPA"). The JPA grants the Authority the <br /> power, duty, and responsibility to prepare, adopt, revise,amend,administer, enforce <br /> and implement the County Integrated Waste Management Plan ("CoIWMP"), and <br /> pursuant to Section 5.m of the JPA,the power to adopt ordinances necessary to carry <br /> out the purposes of the JPA. <br /> (c) Reducing single use bag use is reasonably necessary to carry out the purposes of the <br /> JPA and implement the CoIWMP, including the following goals and policies. <br /> (d) Goal 1 of the CoIWMP is to promote environmental quality,ensure protection of <br /> public health and safety,and to minimize environmental impacts in all aspects of solid <br /> waste management.Policy 1.4.1 includes reduction of hard to recycle materials. <br /> (e) Goal 2 of the CoIWMP calls on the Authority and its member agencies to achieve <br /> maximum feasible waste reduction and to reduce the amount of waste disposed at <br /> landfills through improved management and conservation of resources. <br /> (f) Policy 2.1.1 adopts a waste management hierarchy that ranks management of waste <br /> through source reduction and then recycling and composting above landfill disposal. <br /> (g) Goal 7 of the CoIMWP is to Promote Inter jurisdictional Cooperation. Policy <br />