YUCAIPA NEWSWASTE AND RECYCLING NEWSLETTER

Summer 2020

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Mandatory Commercial Organics Recycling Are You in Compliance?

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City Adopted Mandatory Organics Commercial Recycling Ordinance The City of Yucaipa adopted a Mandatory Organics Commercial Recycling Ordinance No. 370 (8.28.057). Businesses, including a commercial or public entity that generates more than four cubic yards of organics waste per week or a multifamily residential dwelling or mobile home park of five units or more generating four or more cubic yards of green waste per week are required to arrange for organic recycling services effective September 01, 2018. Please note that Multifamily dwellings and mobile home parks organics recycling is specific to green waste only (not food waste). Effective January 2019, the State’s Mandatory Organic Waste Recycling law (AB 1826) requires all businesses generating more than four cubic yards of solid waste per week and multi-family residential properties with five dwelling units or more that generate four cubic yards of solid waste per week, to arrange for organics recycling services.

What is Organic Waste?Organic waste (also referred to as organics) means food waste and green waste (grass clippings, tree trimmings, landscape waste and non-treated wood).

Methods of Compliance✔ Separate organics from other waste and participate in an organics recycling service, with the City’s

franchise hauler. Contact Yucaipa Disposal at (909) 797-9125.

✔ Recycle organic waste on-site, or self-haul organic waste off-site to an organics recycling facility.

✔ Businesses and/or organizations that have surplus edible food can donate food to a food bank, or food rescue program as appropriate. For food rescue information contact Community Action Partnership of San Bernardino County at (909) 723-1581.

Below are the acceptable items for Food Waste recycling:

Yucaipa Disposal offers a food waste and green waste program that assists in complying with the law. Assistance in evaluating your overall solid waste needs is also available. Yucaipa Disposal’s Waste and Recycling Service Coordinators will conduct a free waste assessment and assist to make any necessary service changes. Call our Customer Service office today to schedule a complimentary waste, recycling, and organics assessment. To report your compliance visit Burrtec.com/yucaipa and complete the digital compliance form.

✔ Bones✔ Breads✔ Coffee grounds✔ Dairy products

✔ Fruits✔ Grains✔ Meat✔ Plant trimmings

✔ Poultry✔ Seafood✔ Vegetables

Recycle Right!Place these types of materials in your recycling container.

✔ Aerosol cans (completely empty)✔ Aluminum cans✔ Brochures✔ Cardboard✔ Cartons✔ Cereal boxes (no wax paper lining)✔ Computer paper✔ Coupons✔ Envelopes✔ Glass bottles & jars✔ Glass cosmetic bottles✔ Junk mail✔ Laundry bottles✔ Magazines/catalogs✔ Newspaper✔ Paper✔ Paper tubes✔ Phone books✔ Plastic containers✔ Plastic milk jugs✔ Styrofoam products✔ Tin cans✔ Tissue boxes✔ Wrapping paper

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Help Keep Your Recycling Clean

Is Your Business in Compliance?The City of Yucaipa adopted a Mandatory Commercial Recycling Ordinance No. 314 (8.28.055). Beginning July 1, 2012, the ordinance requires businesses and public entities, generating four (4) cubic yards of trash or more and multifamily residential dwellings with five or more units, to establish and maintain recycling service.

Recycling conserves our natural resources and landfill space. Yucaipa Disposal’s staff can assist in selecting the appropriate recycling service level, along with the necessary education and outreach to residents and managerial staff. Call Yucaipa Disposal’s Customer Service office today to schedule a complimentary waste and recycling assessment.

If you already have a recycling program and would like to make additional enhancements, please call our Customer Service office for assistance.

Assembly Bill 827, New California Recycling LawExisting state law requires businesses that generate 4 cubic yards or more of commercial solid waste per week to implement a recycling and organics program. Effective July 1, 2020, the State of California now requires food establishments that provide trash containers for products purchased and consumed on the premises to also provide properly labeled containers for recyclables and organic waste (food waste). These containers must be placed adjacent to trash containers.

The new law applies to limited-service restaurants such as those restaurants where customers order and pay at the counter and bus their own tables after eating. The law will affect restaurants, malls, and other businesses that serve food. Full-service food establishments that do not provide access to trash containers for products consumed on the premises will be exempt as food workers will likely separate post-consumer food waste and recyclables in the dish washing areas.

Requirements

• AB 827 requires food waste and recycling collection containers adjacent to trash containers at the front-of-house to be visible, accessible, and labeled.

• This law affects businesses that sell products that are meant for immediate consumption.

• Full-service restaurants where employees bus and clean tables are exempt but must provide labeled collection containers adjacent to trash containers for employees/staff to separate post-consumer recyclables and organics.

For further information regarding this law,please visit https://www.calrecycle.ca.gov

FOOD WASTE RECYCLING TRASH

As of 2018, China, the largest market for the world’s recycling materials, enforced the new “National Sword” policy. This policy banned numerous materials including several types of plastics, unsorted mixed paper and set strict standards for contamination levels. This policy has impacted recycling operations across the United States. Stakeholders are now faced with the challenges of processing recyclables that have little no to market value. Lowering the levels of contamination and understanding that certain materials may no longer be recyclable can help. We need your support. In order to continue pursuing alternative markets and help contain costs, please help lower the levels of contamination by only placing acceptable materials in your recycling container.

Sorted recycle bales are shipped to recycling manufacturing companies and made into new products. At the sorting line at the Material Recovery Facility (MRF), workers must remove any contaminants— this is an essential but also time-consuming step that can slow down the process. If any contaminants are missed in the sorting process, the finished recycle bales could be rejected by recycling manufacturers and, therefore, not acceptable to be recycled. Keeping your containers free of trash and non-recyclable contaminants will help in reducing unavoidable future recycling cost increases. Spread the message, “Help keep your recycling clean!”