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conunerciaI, industrial, institutional, and agricultural uses in addition to construction and demolition materials, wastewater sludge, street sweepings, plant debris, litter, and hazardous wastes. In short, the solid waste which must be collected and disposed consists of every material used or consumed by people. A detailed description of solid waste material types and the quantities produced are contained in the Alameda County Integrated Waste Management Plan." The City currently has a franchise agreement with Pleasanton Garbage Service (pGS) to the year 2019, which gives PGS exclusive right, subject to limited exceptions, to collect and transport solid waste from all residential, conunerciaI, and industrial waste generators in the City. This agreement requires PGS to maintain a contract for disposal with a landfill operator. PGS currently contracts with Browning Ferris Industries for disposal at the Vasco Road Landfill in Livermore. According to the Alameda County Integrated Waste Management Plan, and assuming achievement of countywide waste reduction goals, the Vasco Road Landfill will have capacity through 2037.13 Table VI-3 shows Pleasanton's annual garage generation and diversion rates for 2005 and 2025. Hazardous materials are processed and disposed of according to State and Federal regulations. Residents and small generators of hazardous wastes can dispose of them at Alameda County's Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) facilities in Livermore, Hayward or Oakland which recycle some HHW and package the remainder for treatment or disposal outside the County. In addition, the Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department operates a used-oil collection program. The Pleasanton Transfer Station is owned and operated by PIeasanton Garbage Service (pGS), and has a design capacity of 720 tons per day. In 2005, it processed an average of 400 tons per day." In addition to the residential, conunercial, and industrial refuse collected by PGS in Pleasanton, the transfer station accepts refuse collected by PGS in the Sunol and Castlewood areas of unincorporated Alameda County, from the general public, and from residents and businesses from neighboring jurisdictions. Approximately twenty percent of the self-haul refuse processed at the transfer station originates outside the PIeasanton city limits." PIeasanton's principal solid waste management planning document is the City's Source Reduction and Recycling Element (SRRE), adopted in January 1992. This document has been incorporated into the Alameda County Integrated Waste Management Plan. The SRRE describes the programs that the City will use to comply with the CaIifomia Integrated Waste Management Act, which requires all cities and counties to recycle 25 percent of their waste by the year 1995, and 50 percent by the year 2000. The Source Reduction and Recycling Initiative ("Measure D") was a County ballot initiative passed by the voters in 1990. It established aggressive countywide waste diversion goals above the goals set by the state. Measure D not only sets a 75 percent and higher goal for reduced landfilling, but also emphasizes the preservation of natural resources, and describes the need to establish long-term sustainable consumption and disposal patterns. " Alameda County Waste Management Authority, Alameda County Integrated Waste Management Plan. Adopted February 26,2003. 13 Ibid. Table 3-8, page III-13. 14 Bob Molinaro. General Manager, Pleasanton Garbage Service, Personal Communication with Janice Stem, Principal Planner, City of Pleasant on, January 18,2006. " Ibid. VI-I6