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.
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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 businesses.
If you have any questions, please call our office Monday through Friday, 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at (415) 457-9760.
SB 1383 is a statewide effort to reduce emissions of short-lived climate pollutants such as methane. The super pollutant reduction strategy rules set in SB 1383 for organics recycling and edible food recovery are part of California’s bold effort to fast track climate progress by reducing landfill methane emissions.
When organic waste (or compost) such as food waste, green waste, landscape and pruning waste, food-soiled paper, and non hazardous wood waste is sent to landfill, it decomposes anaerobically (without oxygen) which creates methane — one of the most potent greenhouse gases in Earth’s atmosphere. Methane is a short-lived climate pollutant that is 84 times stronger than carbon dioxide over a 20-year period. NASA recently captured satellite images of California landfills and published an inventory showing them as super emitters of methane.
Diverting organic waste to recycling is an integral part of the state’s climate change program and can significantly reduce the impacts of climate change in our lifetime.
SB 1383 went into effect January 1, 2022 and establishes targets to significantly reduce the disposal of organic waste in landfill and recover edible food. Commercial requirements are as follows:
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![]() | Need help with education?Print our Recycling Posters and put them up at your organics, recycling, and garbage stations to encourage proper sorting. |
The second portion of SB 1383, the recovery of edible food waste, applies only to commercial food generators and implementation is split into two tiers:
TIER ONE BUSINESSES MUST COMPLY BY 1/1/2022
| TIER TWO BUSINESSES MUST COMPLY BY 1/1/2024
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For more information about SB 1383 edible food recovery visit the CalRecycle website or Zero Waste Marin.
If you have any questions, please call our office Monday through Friday, 7:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at (415) 457-9760.
AB 827 amended two existing laws (the Mandatory Commercial Recycling law and the Mandatory Commercial Recycling Organics Recycling law) and requires businesses to make composting and recycling bins accessible to customers at restaurants, malls, and other businesses.
For more information, visit the CalRecycle website.
Provide clearly-marked bins for customers to properly sort waste, recycling, and compost.
Print bin labels and posters and put them up around your business and at your public recycling stations to encourage proper recycling and composting.
AB 341 requires that a business (includes public entities) that generates four (4) cubic yards or more of commercial solid waste per week 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.
Print our Recycling Posters and put them up around your business and at your recycle stations to encourage proper recycling.
As of January 2020, AB 1826 requires that businesses and multifamily complexes that generate two (2) or more cubic yards of solid waste per week must recycle organic waste. Businesses meeting that solid waste threshold must arrange for composting services for food waste, green waste, landscape and pruning waste, nonhazardous wood waste, and food-soiled paper waste. These are the items that normally go into your Mill Valley Refuse 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 Compost Posters and put them up around your business and at your organics recycle stations to encourage proper composting.
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