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Cal. Pub. Res. Code § 41780

Waste Diversion

Known as the California Integrated Waste Management Act

The act spans §§ 40000–49654 (1,051 sections).

Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 19 Cal. App. 4th 1416 - Kern County Farm Bureau v. County of Kern (1993)

Most recently applied in City of Los Angeles v. County of Kern (August 2007)

Amended by Stats. 2022, Ch. 342, Sec. 1

How often courts cite this section

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citing decisions per year

Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.

(a) Each jurisdiction’s source reduction and recycling element shall include an implementation schedule that shows both of the following:

(1) For the initial element, the jurisdiction shall divert 25 percent of all solid waste by January 1, 1995, through source reduction, recycling, and composting activities.

(2) For the first and each subsequent revision of the element, the jurisdiction shall divert 50 percent of all solid waste on and after January 1, 2000, through source reduction, recycling, and composting activities.

(b) This section does not prohibit a jurisdiction from implementing source reduction, recycling, and composting activities designed to exceed the requirements of this division.

Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.