Revised Code of Washington
Chapter 70A.205 - Solid Waste Management—Reduction and Recycling.
70A.205.070 - Technical assistance for plan preparation—Guidelines—Informational materials and programs.

RCW 70A.205.070
Technical assistance for plan preparation—Guidelines—Informational materials and programs.

(1) The department or the commission, as appropriate, shall provide to counties and cities technical assistance including, but not limited to, planning guidelines, in the preparation, review, and revision of solid waste management plans required by this chapter. Guidelines prepared under this section shall be consistent with the provisions of this chapter. Guidelines for the preparation of the waste reduction and recycling element of the comprehensive solid waste management plan shall be completed by the department by March 15, 1990. These guidelines shall provide recommendations to local government on materials to be considered for designation as recyclable materials. The state solid waste management plan prepared pursuant to RCW 70A.205.210 shall be consistent with these guidelines.
(2) The department shall be responsible for development and implementation of a comprehensive statewide public information program designed to encourage waste reduction, source separation, and recycling by the public. The department shall operate a toll-free hotline to provide the public information on waste reduction and recycling.
(3) The department shall provide technical assistance to local governments in the development and dissemination of informational materials and related activities to assure recognition of unique local waste reduction and recycling programs.
(4)(a) The department must create and implement a statewide recycling contamination reduction and outreach plan based on best management practices for recycling, developed with stakeholder input by July 1, 2020. Jurisdictions may use the statewide plan in lieu of developing their own plan.
(b) The department must provide technical assistance and create guidance to help local jurisdictions determine the extent of contamination in their regional recycling and to develop contamination reduction and outreach plans. Contamination means any material not included on the local jurisdiction's acceptance list.
(c) Contamination reduction education methods may include sharing community-wide messaging through newsletters, articles, mailers, social media, websites, or community events, informing recycling drop box customers about contamination, and improving signage.
(d) The department must cite the sources of information that it relied upon, including any peer-reviewed science, in the development of the best management practices for recycling under (a) of this subsection and the guidance developed under (b) of this subsection.
(5) Local governments shall make all materials and information developed with the assistance grants provided under RCW 70A.205.080 available to the department for potential use in other areas of the state.

[ 2020 c 20 § 1166; 2019 c 166 § 7; 1989 c 431 § 6; 1984 c 123 § 6; 1969 ex.s. c 134 § 10. Formerly RCW 70.95.100.]
NOTES:

Effective date—2019 c 166: See note following RCW 70A.240.010.

Structure Revised Code of Washington

Revised Code of Washington

Title 70A - Environmental Health and Safety

Chapter 70A.205 - Solid Waste Management—Reduction and Recycling.

70A.205.005 - Legislative finding—Priorities—Goals.

70A.205.007 - Landfill disposal of organic materials—Goal.

70A.205.010 - Purpose.

70A.205.015 - Definitions.

70A.205.020 - Environmental excellence program agreements—Effect on chapter.

70A.205.025 - Standards for solid waste handling—Areas—Landfill location.

70A.205.030 - Inert waste landfills.

70A.205.035 - Implementation of standards—Assessment—Analyses—Proposals.

70A.205.040 - County comprehensive solid waste management plan—Joint plans—Requirements when updating—Duties of cities.

70A.205.045 - County and city comprehensive solid waste management plans—Contents.

70A.205.050 - County and city comprehensive solid waste management plans—Levels of service, reduction and recycling.

70A.205.055 - County and city comprehensive solid waste management plans—Review and approval process.

70A.205.060 - County and city comprehensive solid waste management plans—Review by department of agriculture.

70A.205.065 - Utilities and transportation commission to review local plan's assessment of cost impacts on rates.

70A.205.070 - Technical assistance for plan preparation—Guidelines—Informational materials and programs.

70A.205.075 - Maintenance of plans—Review, revisions—Implementation of source separation programs.

70A.205.080 - Financial aid to counties and cities.

70A.205.085 - Matching requirements.

70A.205.090 - Contracts with counties to assure proper expenditures.

70A.205.100 - Local board of health regulations to implement the comprehensive plan—Section not to be construed to authorize counties to operate system.

70A.205.105 - Local health departments may contract with the department of ecology.

70A.205.110 - Solid waste disposal facility siting—Site review—Local solid waste advisory committees—Membership.

70A.205.115 - Private businesses involvement in source separated materials—Local solid waste advisory committee to examine.

70A.205.120 - Permit for solid waste handling facility—Required.

70A.205.125 - Permit for solid waste handling facility—Applications, fee.

70A.205.130 - Permit for solid waste disposal site or facilities—Review by department—Appeal of issuance—Validity of permits issued after June 7, 1984.

70A.205.135 - Permit for solid waste handling facility—Renewal—Appeal—Validity of renewal—Review fees.

70A.205.140 - Permit for solid waste disposal site or facilities—Suspension.

70A.205.145 - Exemption from solid waste permit requirements—Waste-derived soil amendments—Application—Revocation of exemption—Appeal.

70A.205.150 - Exemption from solid waste permit requirements—Medication disposal.

70A.205.155 - Hearing—Appeal—Denial, suspension—When effective.

70A.205.160 - Solid waste collection companies—Notice of changes in tipping fees and disposal rate schedules.

70A.205.165 - Landfill disposal facilities—Reserve accounts required by July 1, 1987—Exception—Rules.

70A.205.170 - Waste generated outside the state—Findings.

70A.205.175 - Waste generated outside the state—Solid waste disposal site facility reporting requirements—Fees.

70A.205.180 - Financial aid to jurisdictional health departments—Applications—Allocations.

70A.205.185 - Financial aid to jurisdictional health departments—Matching funds requirements.

70A.205.190 - Diversion of recyclable material—Penalty.

70A.205.195 - Unlawful to dump or deposit solid waste without permit—Penalties—Litter cleanup restitution payment.

70A.205.200 - Name appearing on waste material—Presumption.

70A.205.205 - Disposal of sewage sludge or septic tank sludge prohibited—Exemptions—Uses of sludge material permitted.

70A.205.210 - Duties of department—State solid waste management plan—Assistance—Coordination—Tire recycling.

70A.205.215 - Additional powers and duties of department.

70A.205.220 - Department to cooperate with public and private departments, agencies, and associations.

70A.205.225 - Department authorized to disburse referendum 26 (RCW 43.83.330) fund for local government solid waste projects.

70A.205.230 - Department authorized to disburse funds under RCW 43.83.350 for local government solid waste projects.

70A.205.235 - Hazardous substance remedial actions—Procedural requirements not applicable.

70A.205.240 - Determination of best solid waste management practices—Department to develop method to monitor waste stream—Collectors to report quantity and quality of waste—Confidentiality of proprietary information.

70A.205.245 - Solid waste stream analysis.

70A.205.250 - Solid waste stream evaluation.

70A.205.255 - Analysis and evaluation to be incorporated in state solid waste management plan.

70A.205.260 - Solid waste—Beneficial uses—Permitting requirement exemptions.

70A.205.265 - Solid waste handling permit—Exemption from requirements—Application of section—Rules.

70A.205.270 - Composting of bovine and equine carcasses—Guidelines—Exemption from solid waste handling rules.

70A.205.275 - Rules—Department "deferring" to other permits—Application of section.

70A.205.280 - Penalty.

70A.205.285 - Construction.

70A.205.290 - Qualified anaerobic digesters exempt from permitting requirements of chapter—Definitions.

70A.205.300 - Transporters—Definition—Registration required—Penalties.

70A.205.310 - Transporters—Delivery of recyclable materials to transfer station or landfill prohibited—Records—Penalty.

70A.205.320 - Damages.

70A.205.330 - Solid waste recyclers—Notice—Report—Penalty.

70A.205.340 - Financial assurance requirements.

70A.205.400 - Disposal of vehicle tires outside designated area prohibited—Penalty—Exemption.

70A.205.405 - Fee on the retail sale of new replacement vehicle tires.

70A.205.410 - Fee on the retail sale of new replacement vehicle tires—Failure to collect, pay to department—Penalties.

70A.205.415 - Waste tire removal account.

70A.205.420 - Waste tire removal account—Use—Information required to be posted to department's website.

70A.205.425 - Waste tire removal account—Use of moneys—Transfer of any balance in excess of one million dollars to the motor vehicle account.

70A.205.430 - Disposition of fee.

70A.205.435 - Cooperation with department to aid tire recycling.

70A.205.440 - Waste tires—Definitions.

70A.205.445 - Waste tires—License for transport or storage business—Requirements.

70A.205.450 - Waste tires—Violation of RCW 70A.205.445—Penalty.

70A.205.455 - Waste tires—Contracts with unlicensed persons prohibited.

70A.205.460 - Limitations on liability.

70A.205.500 - Educational material promoting household waste reduction and recycling.

70A.205.505 - Battery disposal—Restrictions—Violators subject to fine—"Vehicle battery" defined.

70A.205.510 - Identification procedure for persons accepting used vehicle batteries.

70A.205.515 - Requirements for accepting used batteries by retailers of vehicle batteries—Notice.

70A.205.520 - Retail core charge.

70A.205.525 - Vehicle battery wholesalers—Obligations regarding used batteries—Noncompliance procedure.

70A.205.530 - Department to distribute printed notice—Issuance of warnings and citations—Fines.

70A.205.535 - Rules.

70A.205.540 - Organic solid waste collection services—Fees—Exceptions.

70A.205.545 - Certain businesses must arrange for organic materials management services—Requirements—Limitations of this section—Definitions.

70A.205.550 - Data to support the goals of the Washington center for sustainable food management—Voluntary reporting protocols.

70A.205.600 - Solid waste incineration or energy recovery facility—Environmental impact statement requirements.

70A.205.605 - Incineration of medical waste.

70A.205.610 - Sharps waste—Drop-off sites—Pharmacy return program.

70A.205.615 - Closure of energy recovery and incineration facilities—Recordkeeping requirements.

70A.205.620 - Paper conservation program—Paper recycling program.

70A.205.700 - Develop and establish objectives and strategies for the reuse and recycling of construction aggregate and recycled concrete materials.

70A.205.710 - Composting food and yard wastes—Grants and study.

70A.205.715 - Food waste reduction—Goal—Plan—Definitions.

70A.205.900 - Authority and responsibility of utilities and transportation commission not changed.

70A.205.901 - Application of chapter—Collection and transportation of recyclable materials by recycling companies or nonprofit entities—Reuse or reclamation.

70A.205.902 - Application of chapter—Steel slag.