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Companies are obliged to either separate their own waste and have it collected or
commit their waste to special commercial waste sorting facilities. 816 Where on-site
separation is not possible, due to technical or economical constraints, mixed site
waste consisting of wood, glass, plastic, metal, concrete, bricks, tiles and ceramics
must be sent to pre-treatment facilities which have a recovery rate of at least 85%.
Other mixed waste must also be sent to a pre-treatment facility but a recovery rate is
not stipulated.
48.2.3 California, USA
The California Integrated Waste Management Board (CIWMB) encourages cities to
adopt a C&D Materials Recycling Ordinance and as a result there are many cities that
have mandated this. An ordinance requires that at least 50% C&D material generated
from a project is reused or recycled, and at least 75% inert material is diverted from
landfill.
The system requires a permit to be applied for, a non-refundable administration fee to
be paid, and a deposit, or bond, to be paid for performance security which is refunded
if the minimum recycling requirements of the Ordinance are met. A reporting system
is in place so that checks can be carried out after project completion. The
administration fee is based on 0.3% of the project value and the performance security
fee is between 1.5-2% of the project value.
Implementation throughout California varies slightly by country, but the mechanism is
broadly the same. Different authorities have different criteria for the projects which
must comply. The City of Concord, California, is an example of where this policy
mechanism uses project value. Projects which must comply with the Ordinance are:
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1. a residential or commercial project worth $50,000 or more;
2. a city-owned or sponsored project worth $150,000 or more; and
3. a residential or commercial roofing/re-roofing project worth $10,000 or
more. 817
(a more complete list of Californian Ordinances can be found on the CIWMB
website). 818
Alternatively authorities can use size of the project, as the City of Menlo Park,
California has done, where projects of the following sizes must comply with the
Ordinance:
816 Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (2002) Ordinance on
the Management of Municipal Wastes of Commercial Origin and Certain Construction and Demolition
Wastes (Commercials Wastes Ordinance-CWO), Accessed 30 th October 2008,
http://www.bmu.de/files/pdfs/allgemein/application/pdf/gewerbeabfallv_engl.pdf
817 City of Concord (2008) Accessed 24 th October 2008,
http://www.cityofconcord.org/living/recycle/cdordinance.htm
818 California Integrated Waste Management Board (2008) Accessed 24 th October 2008,
http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/ConDemo/SampleDocs/
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