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RECYCLING ORGANIC WASTE

Posted on 03/09/2022
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The City Council approved a report from the Energy, Climate Change, Environmental Justice, and River Committee that instructs the Bureau of Sanitation to expand the residential organics collection program to comply with the CalRecycle regulations to reduce organic waste disposal by 75 percent by 2025. 

Sanitation must expand the residential organics collection program from 18,000 to 40,000 starting July 1, 2022 and from 40,000 to 75,000 by Dec. 31, 2022. This program was established following the implementation of SB 1383, which created the state of California’s “Short-Lived Climate Pollutant Reduction Strategy.” Click here to learn more.