Pub. Resources Code, § 40051 · Article 2. General Provisions
Pub. Resources Code, § 40051
Text — As published in the Legislative Counsel's database, tables dated October 18, 2026 (pubinfo_2025.zip)
In implementing this division, the board and local agencies shall do both of the following:
(a) Promote the following waste management practices in order of priority:
(1) Source reduction.
(2) Recycling and composting.
(3) Environmentally safe transformation and environmentally safe land disposal, at the discretion of the city or county.
(b) Maximize the use of all feasible source reduction, recycling, and composting options in order to reduce the amount of solid waste that must be disposed of by transformation and land disposal. For wastes that cannot feasibly be reduced at their source, recycled, or composted, the local agency may use environmentally safe transformation or environmentally safe land disposal, or both of those practices.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Added by Stats. 1989, Ch. 1095, Sec. 22.
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Cited by 18 provisions
Provisions in this library whose text cites Pub. Resources Code, § 40051. Each shows the citation as that text prints it.
Public Resources Code
- Pub. Resources Code, § 41001Printed as Section 40051
- Pub. Resources Code, § 41301Printed as Section 40051
- Pub. Resources Code, § 42023.1Printed as Section 40051
- Pub. Resources Code, § 42023.6Printed as Sections 40051 and 41780
- Pub. Resources Code, § 42050Printed as Section 40051
- Pub. Resources Code, § 42051.1Printed as Section 40051
- Pub. Resources Code, § 42355.51Printed as Section 40051
- Pub. Resources Code, § 42511Printed as Section 40051
- Pub. Resources Code, § 42650Printed as Section 40051
- Pub. Resources Code, § 42651Printed as Section 40051
- Pub. Resources Code, § 42889Printed as Section 40051
- Pub. Resources Code, § 42968.32Printed as Section 40051
- Pub. Resources Code, § 42968.62Printed as Section 40051
- Pub. Resources Code, § 42970Printed as Section 40051
- Pub. Resources Code, § 42984.1Printed as Section 40051
- Pub. Resources Code, § 42984.10Printed as Section 40051
- Pub. Resources Code, § 42984.17Printed as Section 40051
- Pub. Resources Code, § 44150Printed as Section 40051
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