Huntington Park, CA Trash & Recycling: Mandatory Organics Recycling (2026)

Huntington Park Municipal Code § 6-2.405 applies to commercial businesses in the City of Huntington Park. Section 6-2.403 defines the term to cover firms, partnerships, corporations, nonprofits, strip malls, industrial facilities, and multi-family residential dwellings, but a multi-family dwelling of fewer than five units is excluded. Subsection (a) requires subscription to the City's organic waste collection services. The City can review container number, size, and collection frequency, and the business must adjust its service level when asked. Under subsection (b), the business places only source separated recyclable materials in a blue container and all other materials (mixed waste) in a gray container. Businesses that meet the self-hauler requirements in § 6-2.410 are excluded.

Other duties follow. The business must supply and allow access to adequate containers (c) and, excluding multi-family dwellings, provide recyclables containers wherever disposal containers are offered to customers, though not in restrooms (d). Those containers need matching body or lid colors or labels naming accepted and prohibited materials, with labeling required on new containers commencing January 1, 2022, and functional older containers kept until the end of their useful life or January 1, 2036, whichever comes first. Businesses must periodically inspect containers for contamination (g), provide annual information to employees, contractors, tenants, and customers (h), give new tenants education information before or within 14 days of occupation (i), and cooperate with the City's remote monitoring program (k).

Waivers sit in § 6-2.406. A de minimis waiver applies when total solid waste service is two cubic yards or more per week and organic waste is under 20 gallons per week per applicable container, or when service is under two cubic yards per week and organic waste is under 10 gallons per week. A physical space waiver needs documentation that the premises lacks room for the containers. Both must be re-verified every five years, and the City Manager approves them.

Edible food is covered by § 6-2.407. Tier one generators (supermarkets, grocery stores of 10,000 square feet or more, food service providers, food distributors, wholesale food vendors) comply from January 1, 2022, and tier two generators (such as restaurants with 250 or more seats or 5,000 square feet or more, and hotels with 200 or more rooms and an on-site food facility) from January 1, 2024. They must arrange to recover the maximum amount of edible food that would otherwise be disposed.