CA AB45

Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery must adopt one or more model ordinances for comprehensive household hazardous waste collection programs for local jurisdictions to voluntarily adopt.

Model ordinances may include locally sponsored collection sites, scheduled drop-off days, door-to-door collection, mobile collection programs, and consumer education initiatives.

Comprehensive program covers automotive products, garden chemicals, household chemicals, paint products, consumer electronics, batteries, fluorescent lamps, mercury-containing items, sharps waste, and pharmaceutical waste.

Department must determine by December 31, 2018 whether a nonprofit organization with at least $5 million in funding exists to make grants to local governments for household hazardous waste programs; if no such organization is identified, the article is repealed January 1, 2019.

Applies only to local jurisdictions that provide residential collection and disposal of solid waste.