Anaheim, CA Landscaping Rules: Composting (2026)
Key Facts
- Statute
- Cal. Health & Safety Code § 39730.6
- 2020 target
- 50% cut in statewide organic-waste disposal
- 2025 target
- 75% cut in statewide organic-waste disposal
- Enforcement
- CalRecycle penalties under Pub. Resources Code § 42652.5
- Procurement deadline
- 100% of compost/mulch target due January 1, 2025
- Local tie-in
- Anaheim Community Composting capped at 100 cu. yd./750 sq. ft.
Summary
California's SB 1383 sets the legal floor behind every composting bin and green cart in Anaheim: Health and Safety Code Section 39730.6 locks in a 50 percent cut in statewide organic-waste disposal by 2020 and 75 percent by 2025, and CalRecycle's companion procurement rules under Public Resources Code Section 42652.5 back the mandate with civil penalties the City itself can face for missing its compost-use target.
(a) Consistent with Section 39730.5, methane emissions reduction goals shall include the following targets to reduce the landfill disposal of organics: (1) A 50-percent reduction in the level of the statewide disposal of organic waste from the 2014 level by 2020. (2) A 75-percent reduction in the level of the statewide disposal of organic waste from the 2014 level by 2025. (b) Except as provided in this section and Section 42652.5 of the Public Resources Code, the state board shall not adopt, prior to January 1, 2025, requirements to control methane emissions associated with the disposal of organic waste in landfills other than through landfill methane emissions control regulations.
Full Breakdown
Anaheim's residential organics program did not spring from local policy choice; it exists because the Legislature made composting mandatory. 5 requires the state board to cut statewide methane emissions 40 percent below 2013 levels by 2030 as part of the same short-lived-climate-pollutant strategy, which is what forces every California city, including Anaheim, to run a curbside organics and composting program rather than leave food scraps and yard trimmings in the landfill stream. 5, which lets the department require local jurisdictions to procure a quantity of recovered organic waste products such as finished compost and mulch, backed by an escalating civil penalty schedule: jurisdictions had to hit 30 percent of their procurement target by January 1, 2023, 65 percent by January 1, 2024, and 100 percent by January 1, 2025.
5 also carves out real exemptions, including a rural-jurisdiction exemption running through January 1, 2037, and a process letting a city facing continuing violations during 2022 file a notification of intent to comply with a corrective-action schedule in exchange for penalty relief. 110, is the local answer to this state-level mandate.
Violations & Fines
The 2016 statute assigns penalties to jurisdictions and processors, not to individual residents. CalRecycle can fine the City of Anaheim directly if it misses its compost or mulch procurement target, with civil penalties authorized under the escalating compliance schedule in Public Resources Code Section 42652.5(a)(6). A city that ignored a notice of ongoing violation could also lose eligibility for the 2022 penalty-relief window Section 42652.5(c)-(g) created for jurisdictions that filed a timely corrective action plan.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Anaheim's composting requirement a local ordinance or state law?
Can the state fine Anaheim over composting, not just residents?
Are rural or small operations exempt from the state composting rules?
Sources & Official References
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