Glenn County, CA Trash & Recycling: Mandatory Organics Recycling (2026)

Glenn County adopted its Organic Waste Disposal Reduction Ordinance by Ordinance No. 1307 on April 5, 2022, to implement SB 1383, the Short-Lived Climate Pollutant Reduction Act. 060 sets two different tracks for single-family generators (households with fewer than five units). Subsection (a) is a mandatory duty: households must comply with the county's solid waste collection service by placing designated materials in designated containers and must keep Prohibited Container Contaminants out of those bins. 9(c); the code does not use mandatory language for that piece.

12(c). That exemption removes Glenn County from Article 3 Organic Waste Collection Services, Article 11 Organic Waste Capacity Planning, and Article 12 Procurement of Recovered Organic Waste Products through December 21, 2026. In practice, the county is not required to roll out a curbside organics cart to unincorporated households before that date, so there is no separate green-bin mandate to violate. The county still runs education and outreach through the Public Works Agency and requires Tier One and Tier Two commercial edible food generators to meet food-recovery duties on a separate track. Willows and Orland, both incorporated cities, run their own SB 1383 compliance and are not covered by this county ordinance.