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This paper examines California's Bill 939, which was passed in 1989. The bill mandated that by 2000, the entire state would diverte 50 percent of waste toward recycling. The paper discusses the history of the bill, how it has been implemented, and level of compliance. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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acts, to Earth Day features and concern over global warming. Also in the news quite frequently is recycling - and recycling has been in the news because the landfills that
accept trash are gradually filling up. Recycling proponents note that reducing waste that goes into landfills will help them last longer, while reducing the amount of garbage piled into the
ground. As a result of the benefits of recycling and an impending crisis regarding its landfill areas and their use, the State
of California, in 1989, passed its California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989, better known as AB 939. The overall mandates of
the bill required that the state change the way in its handling of solid waste, moving more of that solid waste toward recycling and reuse rather than throwing it in
a landfill (California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989). The act set levels of waste diversion (i.e., recycling) of 25 percent by 1995 and 50 percent by 2000, relying on
1990 baseline numbers (California Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989; see also Assembly Bill 939). The bill established a three-pronged hierarchy to accomplish these goals: source reduction, recycling and composting
and environmentally safe transformation and land disposal of solid wastes (Assembly Bill 939). All of these have been enacted upon since the passage of the bill.
Authored by State Senator Byron Sher, the main reason for this radically considered legislation was to clean up California and to alleviate a landfill crisis of
enormous proportions (Block 39). In a very real sense, California was running out of places to put its trash (Block 39). Added to this factor was that California had the
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