California has set ambitious goals to reduce statewide solid waste disposal and divert resources from landfill. These laws require businesses (including public entities) and multifamily dwellings (apartments) to recycle and compost to achieve this goal.
Mill Valley Refuse Service has the programs you need to comply with the law. In most cases you’re already paying for these services, and you may even be doing everything you need to do now to be in compliance.
In an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, keep valuable material out of landfills, and create a healthy environment for our community and future generations by recovering natural resources, California has enacted mandatory recycling laws that impact apartment complexes with five (5) or more units.
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AB 341 requires that a multifamily complex (designated as five or more units) shall arrange for recycling services.
For more information, visit the CalRecycle website.
The requirement to recycle can be met by taking one or any combination of the following actions, provided that the action is in compliance with local ordinances and requirements.
The requirement to recycle can be met by taking one or any combination of the following actions, provided that the action is in compliance with local ordinances and requirements.
A property owner of a multifamily residential dwelling may require tenants to source separate their recyclable materials to aid in compliance with this section.
Print our Recycling Posters and put them up around at your recycle stations to encourage proper recycling.
As of January 2020, AB 1826 requires that businesses and multifamily complexes with five (5) units or more that generate two (2) or more cubic yards of solid waste per week must recycle organic waste. Apartment meeting this criteria must arrange for recycling services for green waste, landscape and pruning waste, and nonhazardous wood waste. These are the items that normally go into your Compost Cart(s).
For more information, visit the CalRecycle website.
The requirement to recycle organic waste can be met by taking one or any combination of the following actions, provided that the action is in compliance with local ordinances and requirements.
Print our Recycling Posters and put them up at your organics recycle stations to encourage proper composting.
SB 1383 establishes targets to significantly reduce the disposal of organic waste in landfill and recover edible food.
For more information, visit the CalRecycle website.
The requirement to recycle organic waste can be met by taking one or any combination of the following actions, provided that the action is in compliance with local ordinances and requirements.
Print our Recycling Posters and put them up at your organics recycle stations to encourage proper composting.