California AB 1826 required organic waste recycling

[Dylan Mitchell]

How are you handling the new organic waste recycling requirements? Anything over 4 units here is considered multi-family commercial. If you have 5 or more units you have to do organic waste recycling if you have more than 4 cubic yards of waste. We have very little green waste our landscaping company takes all the green waste. We can't imagine the mess and stink of putting out organic waste bins to sit in the sun for a couple of days or a week! How are you complying with the new law?

We have a 3-yard dumpster for trash and 2 recycling bins that I think are 64 gallons and zero green waste bins. Trash and recycling service is twice a week so at most, we have 6 yards of trash and 4 x 64 gallons of recycling. I think that's about 3/4 yard of recycling? I've talked to our trash company and it sounds like we fall just under having enough waste to have to do organic waste recycling. But they can't clarify if twice a week pick up of the 3-yard dumpster counts as 3 or 6 yards of solid waste.


https://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/...

[Caroline Gerardo]

I'm not certain what city you are but many trash companies offer the green bins. The real problem is getting your tenants to separate what can be recycled, what is real trash and what can be composted. If tenants put meat products/plastic/trash into the compost it doesn't work. What space do you have around where the dumpster is stored? You have several choices: pay to have someone haul it and compost; build a wire cage about 4' tall to place grass clippings and dry not colored newsprint to allow to compost; ignore and see if you get fined... Compost does not smell. It shrinks rapidly in heat.