Gardena provides curbside organics (green-cart) collection for food scraps and yard trimmings, implementing California SB 1383, which requires cities to offer organic-waste recycling. Backyard and community composting are allowed alternatives. Residents keep organics out of the trash and use the City's franchised hauler's organics cart.
Composting and organics recycling in Gardena are driven mainly by California's statewide organic-waste law, SB 1383 (the Short-Lived Climate Pollutant reduction law) and its 14 CCR regulations, which require every California jurisdiction to provide organic-waste collection and to divert food scraps and green waste from landfills. Gardena participates through its residential and commercial solid-waste program, offering a green organics cart collected by the City's franchised waste hauler; food scraps, food-soiled paper, and yard trimmings go in the organics cart rather than the trash. SB 1383 also recognizes on-site management: residents may reduce or prevent organic waste, compost in their own backyard, or use a qualifying community composting site consistent with the state regulations, and doing so is an accepted alternative
Contaminating the organics cart, placing organics in the trash where prohibited, or a business failing to subscribe to required organic-waste service conflicts with SB 1383 and the City's solid-waste program, and can lead to corrective notices and penalties. Letting yard
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