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SB 1383: Information for Residents

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What does SB 1383 mean for me?

The CalRecycle SB 1383 Short-lived Climate Pollutants Organic Waste Regulations require everyone in California to recycle all organic waste, including paper, cardboard, yard materials, food scraps and food-soiled paper. Please see the specific requirements below.

SB 1383 requirements for Residents

Recycling and Organics Recycling Collection: Residents must either subscribe to and participate in the City’s recycling and organics curbside collection service OR self-haul recycling and organic waste to a recycling or composting facility. Residents can petition to self-haul their recycling and organics, share carts with a neighbor, or request an exemption due to lack of physical space. Learn more about recycling and organic waste collection waivers. Residents must sort out their recyclables and organics waste from the trash.
Adequate Access to Organics Recycling. All residents must have adequate access to recycling and organics recycling service. Trash collection service through Recology Davis includes unlimited recycling service at no additional cost (the cost is included in trash service fees). Additional recycling carts are available upon request. Trash service also includes one organics cart, additional organics carts are available for a fee. Depending on the amount of organic waste a resident generates, they may need additional recycling or organics carts or more frequent service. Property owners/property managers must ensure that they have subscribed to a recycling and organics recycling service level that is sufficient to allow all recyclables and organics to be separated from the trash. More information on how SB 1383 affects rental property owners/managers.

Carts

Recology Davis provides trash, recycling, and organics containers to customers for weekly waste collection. SB 1383 regulations require any container purchased by a waste hauler on or after January 1, 2022, to meet certain requirements:

Cart colors: Trash bins must be grey or black, recycling bins must be blue, and organics bins must be green. Either the lid and/or the body of the waste bin must be the correct color. Recology is updating their waste containers to be color compliant when they need replacement.
Cart labels. Waste bins must be clearly labeled to show which materials are allowed and prohibited in the container. While all Recology containers currently indicate what can go into them, all new carts and bins will have updating labeling with pictures and a list of what can and cannot go inside.

When will my carts be changed out?

Recology does have some extra carts in stock, and the regulations allow carts that have already been purchased or are already in use to continue to be used. When Recology orders new carts, they are color and label-compliant. Your current cart will likely be replaced when it’s broken and/or in need of repair. The regulations require that all carts be color and label complaint by January 2036, so that gives plenty of time to update all the carts through normal attrition.

More information on the organic waste collection requirements of SB 1383: https://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/organics/slcp/collection

Resources Available

Downloadable posters/bin labels are available on our website: https://www.cityofdavis.org/city-hall/public-works-utilities-and-operations/solid-waste-and-recycling/recycling-downloads

CalRecycle has developed fliers, posters, signs and stickers that can be downloaded and printed: https://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/Recycle/Commercial/Organics/PRToolkit/