WASTE REDUCTION STRATEGIC PLAN
2022-2035
Chula Vista’s Road Plan to Zero Waste
www.chulavistaca.gov/ZeroWaste
1 Waste Reduction Strategic Plan – Public Input
• 60-Day Public Comment Period –
Aug. 2 - Sept. 30, 2021
• Plan posted on website for public review and to
receive public comments
• 12 presentations to Community Groups, over
200 attendees
• Sustainability Series Webinar – Sept. 16, 2021
• Comments reviewed, Plan modified, new
Action added
2 Zero Waste Plan – Introduction
• Continues Chula Vista’s visionary formulation of
strategic plans to create a cleaner environment
• Planned Actions and City’s current waste reduction
activities aim to achieve Zero Waste goals
• Change the mindset – wastes are resources
• Lessen impacts of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
GOAL - per the City’s 2017 Climate Action Plan - Zero
Waste Plan seeks 90% waste diversion by 2035
Six Key Tasks – Strategies with Measurable Actions
3 Defining Zero Waste
“The conservation of all resources by means of responsible production, consumption, reuse, and recovery of products, packaging, and materials without burning and with no
discharges to land, water, or air that threaten the
environment or human health.”
– Zero Waste International Alliance
4 Zero Waste Planning - Key Objectives
5 Zero Waste Planning - Best Practices
“People, Planet, Prosperity” - “triple bottom line” to achieve, social, environmental, and economic sustainability - locally and globally.
• Contributes to development of more sustainable, green economy and community.
• Opportunity for all sectors of our community - to implement innovative practices and technologies to achieve waste
reduction improvements that benefit everyone.
6 State Waste Reduction Legislation
AB 939 – 1989
Achieve 50% landfill diversion rate; reduce, reuse,
recycle, compost all discarded materials.
AB 341 – 2011
Requires GHG reduction by diverting commercial solid
waste to recycling efforts, expand recycling services.
AB 1826 – 2014
Requires businesses to arrange for organic recycling services.
SB 1383 – 2016
Attempts to fix lack of progress in reaching recycling
goals statewide. Sets target goals to reduce organic
waste in landfills – 50% by 2020; 75% by 2025. Went
into effect in January 2022.
7 Chula Vista
Waste Stream
Recoverability Analysis
8 Six Key
Tasks
with
Specific
Actions
9 Anticipated Benefit of Fully Implemented
Waste Strategy
Annually equals:
- 8,481 trash truck loads
Annually equals:
- 30,741 passenger vehicles driven for one year
- 15,905,592 gallons of gasoline consumed
- Carbon sequestered by 173,183 acres of U.S.
forests in one year
10 TASK
• Promote Zero Waste principles
• Education campaigns – benefits of
reuse, repair, donating unwanted
items
• Conduct Fix-it Clinics
• Operate Reuse Store at Household
Hazardous Waste Facility
• Adopt ordinance to disallow
single-use plastic items in food
establishments
11 TASK
• Develop educational materials on
benefits of reducing use of toxic
products
• Conduct annual communication
campaign to encourage “toxic-free”
practices; change behaviors of City
residents, businesses
• Annually increase collection of
properly disposed toxic materials at
the City’s Household Hazardous
Waste facility and take back events
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• Create a community of “Zero Waste Champions”
• Collaborate with schools, activate Zero Waste teaching • Create Zero Waste Business Certification Program
• Adopt Zero Waste guidelines for building deconstruction • Establish “sorter associates” network for proper food waste disposal and recycling at City events
13 TASLTASK
• Collaborate with local jurisdictions and regional
economic councils – attract, locate materials recycling businesses in Chula Vista
• Facilitate Recycling Market Development Zone loans for materials management facilities
• Research, develop Resource Recovery Facility at the
Otay Landfill
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KTASK
• Create a “Recycle Right” vision for the City
• Conduct innovative multi-year, multi-
faceted education campaigns
• Divert, prevent valuable resources from
the landfill
• On-site audits, annually educate 1,500
businesses: proper recycling, trash
disposal, “right-sizing” service levels
• Encourage creating “in-house” waste
disposal, recycling plans
15 TASK
• Implement organic waste recovery and
management program to comply with SB 1383:
• Increase education to divert organic wastes
• Recover edible food
• Monitor all food, yard waste generators
• Compost production and distribution:
• Develop regional compost markets - increase
usage, production
• Identify technically advanced solutions to
manage compost production
16 Questions
For information on the Waste Reduction
Strategic Plan contact:
Bob Coleman
Sustainability Specialist
Office of Sustainability, City of Chula Vista
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 619-476-5332
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