Under California SB 1383, Upland requires all residents to separate organic (food and green) waste. The City provides weekly green-waste (green barrel) collection through Burrtec and offers free food-waste pails; home composting is allowed and supported, but participation in organics recycling is mandatory.
Composting in Upland is shaped by California's SB 1383 mandatory organic-waste-reduction law, which the City implements rather than a unique local composting code. The City's franchise hauler, Burrtec Waste Industries, provides once-weekly automated collection of refuse (black barrel), recyclables (blue barrel) and green/organic waste (green barrel). All residents, multi-family tenants and commercial businesses are required to participate in food-waste recycling to comply with SB 1383, meaning food scraps generally go into the green barrel with yard trimmings. The City and Burrtec offer free optional food-waste kitchen pails to Upland residents (one per household), available at the Upland City Yard, 1370 N. Benson Ave. Burrtec also conducts inspections of residential bins to confirm proper sorting. Home/backyard composting remains a permitted alternative that reduces what residents set out, but it does not exempt a household from the SB 1383 organics-separation requirement. The program is run through the City's Public Works/Recycling division with Burrtec; questions go to Burrtec Customer Service at (909) 949-0500. Because this stems from State law, the core obligations mirror SB 1383 statewide, administered locally by the City of Upland.
SB 1383 makes organics separation mandatory; contaminated bins or failure to separate food/green waste can result in correction notices and, ultimately, penalties under the City's implementing authority and the State framework. Bin inspections by Burrtec identify non-compliant sorting.
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