Rialto, CA Landscaping Rules: Composting (2026)

Section 8.08.510 sits in Article VI (Organic Waste) of Chapter 8.08, the article the city added to comply with AB 1826 and SB 1383, California's mandatory commercial and residential organics recycling laws referenced in § 8.08.500. Subsections (A) and (B) require every single-family generator to subscribe to the city's three-container collection service and to sort material correctly among the gray, blue and green containers. Subsection (C), though, is the composting carve-out: it states plainly that nothing in the section stops a generator from preventing or reducing the waste it generates, managing organic waste on site, or using a community composting site, citing 14 CCR § 18984.9(c) as the state regulation that protects this option.

In practice, that means a Rialto homeowner who backyard-composts food scraps, yard trimmings or other organic material doesn't have to route that material through the green container to comply with the chapter, as long as they are genuinely managing it on site rather than dumping it. The city retains the right to review the number, size and location of a generator's containers under § 8.08.510(A) to confirm adequate capacity, but that review authority doesn't override the on-site management right in subsection (C). The city also is not required to replace functional non-color-compliant containers purchased before January 1, 2022, until the end of their useful life or January 1, 2036, whichever comes first.