Antioch, CA Trash & Recycling: Mandatory Organics Recycling (2026)

Antioch Municipal Code Sec. 02 requires every owner, manager, or person in control of an occupied property to subscribe to the city's franchised three-container collection service for trash, recyclable materials, and organics, and to keep that service adequate for the property. Single-family generators must place source-separated organic waste, including food waste, in the organics cart, source-separated recyclables in the recycling cart, and everything else in the trash cart; the section expressly bars dumping trash-bound material into the organics or recycling container. Commercial businesses and multi-family dwellings of five units or more face a longer list of duties: they must supply enough labeled or color-coded containers for employees, tenants and customers, train staff annually on sorting, give new tenants sorting information within 14 days of move-in, and let the city inspect for contamination.

Landlords of leased single-family homes, apartments, flats, duplexes, or multi-family buildings must arrange and pay for adequate service for every occupant even if the tenant is billed. A property owner may ask the City Manager for an exemption only by showing the premises are unoccupied, and an owner with an active irrigation-only water account may separately apply to drop solid waste service. Nothing in the section stops a resident from managing organic waste on-site or using a community composting site instead of the cart under 14 CCR Sec. 9(c). The ordinance implements the state's SB 1383 short-lived-pollutant mandate and was last amended by Ordinance 2200-C-S on January 11, 2022.