Product Stewardship Saves Money, Creates Jobs and Reduces Waste

摘要

Twenty-five years ago California passed a groundbreaking law, the Integrated Waste Management Act of 1989 [AB 939, Chapter 1095, Statutes of 1989], which required cities and counties to develop policies and programs to achieve a waste diversion rate of 50 percent or the maximum amount feasible by the year 2000. The law also established California's landmark waste hierarchy of "reduce, reuse and recycle."