Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 340 - DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY › Division 90 - RECYCLING AND WASTE REDUCTION › Section 340-090-0042 - Waste Prevention and Reuse Programs

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
(1) As required by ORS
			 459A.007, certain local
			 governments must implement the waste prevention education and reuse program
			 element listed in section (2) in this rule and choose two or four additional
			 elements from sections (3) through (8) of this rule, depending on the local
			 governments' populations and locations. Each city that is within a metropolitan
			 service district or with a population of greater than 50,000 and each county
			 that is responsible for the area between city limits and the urban growth
			 boundary of a city with a population of greater than 50,000 or the area outside
			 of city limits but within a metropolitan service district urban growth boundary
			 must implement either: the waste prevention and reuse program element in
			 section (2) and at least four additional elements from sections (3) through (8)
			 of this rule; or an alternative program that is designed to achieve similar
			 benefits as this rule and complies with OAR
			 340-090-0080(7).
			 Each city with a population of greater than 10,000 but no more than 50,000,
			 that is within a county of greater than 100,000 population, and each county of
			 greater than 100,000 population that is responsible for the area between city
			 limits and the urban growth boundary of a city with a population of greater
			 than 10,000 but no more than 50,000 must implement either: the waste prevention
			 and reuse program element in section (2) and at least two additional elements
			 from sections (3) through (8) of this rule; or an alternative program that is
			 designed to achieve similar benefits as this rule and complies with OAR
			 340-090-0080(7).
			 Waste prevention education and reuse program elements in this rule that are
			 implemented by a county or metropolitan service district may be used by a city
			 within the county or metropolitan service district to meet the requirements of
			 this rule, provided that the elements are made available throughout the entire
			 city, including the area between the city limits and the urban growth boundary
			 of that city. Waste prevention and reuse program elements implemented by a
			 metropolitan service district may be used by a county that includes or is
			 within the metropolitan service district to meet the requirements of this
			 section, provided that the elements are made available throughout the entire
			 urban growth boundary of the metropolitan service district.
(2) Citywide or countywide education and
			 promotion. A citywide or countywide education and promotion program about the
			 environmental benefits of, and opportunities to reduce the generation of waste
			 through, waste prevention and reuse.
(a) The
			 education and promotion program must include the following components:
(A) Information for existing residential and
			 commercial collection service customers that:
(i) Is designed to reach solid waste
			 generators and is provided at least four times per calendar year through:
			 written notice, an effective alternative, or some combination of
			 both;
(ii) Describes the benefits
			 of generating less waste in terms of the reduction in a material's
			 environmental impact as part of its life cycle, including upstream impacts,
			 such as resource extraction and manufacturing; and
(iii) Addresses how to generate less waste,
			 how to reuse materials, and solutions to common challenges to waste prevention
			 and reuse.