California builders and remodelers pulling permits
Free check of California's CALGreen construction waste rule: whether your job must divert 65%, which way to comply, and what the city wants filed.
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How it works
What you get
The check is free. The paperwork after it is drafted at the Site-specific safety plan with activity hazard analyses door.
Modeled on: CalRecycle summary of CALGreen Construction Waste Management Requirements (4.408 and 5.408)
From public data
of nonhazardous construction and demolition waste must be recycled or salvaged on covered California projects
Source: CALGreen 4.408.1 and 5.408.1, CalRecycle summary
Draft a site-specific safety plan with a hazard analysis (AHA) for each task, fall protection and emergency steps for your GC or a Corps job. Free to read.
Questions
Covered projects must divert at least 65% of nonhazardous construction and demolition waste, shown through a waste management plan, a waste management company with verifiable documentation, or a disposal-weight limit (3.4 pounds per square foot for low-rise homes, 2 for nonresidential and high-rise).
No. CalRecycle notes that a demolition-only permit, not part of a construction permit, is outside the scope of the CALGreen building code, and that cities using CALGreen should address recycling on those jobs separately.
Fresno's 2025 form, for example, is signed to comply with CALGreen 4.408 and 5.408 and asks for recycled and non-recycled waste and the percentage recycled, at least 65% of all construction and demolition debris.
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