Menifee, CA Trash & Recycling: Mandatory Organics Recycling (2026)
Key Facts
- Generation trigger
- 4+ cubic yards of organic waste per week
- Who is covered
- Commercial premises and multi-family dwellings
- Compliance options
- Franchisee, onsite compost, self-haul, landscaper
- First admin fine
- $50, then $100, then $250
- Compliance window
- 60 days after notice of violation
- State authority
- 14 CCR Div. 7, Ch. 12, Sec. 18995.4
Summary
Menifee Municipal Code Section 6.30.090 requires every commercial premises and multi-family dwelling that generates four or more cubic yards of organic waste per week to arrange organics recycling, by franchisee subscription, onsite composting, self-haul, or a landscaper hauling yard waste to a permitted facility.
In addition to any other applicable provisions of this chapter, the owner, occupant or person in possession, charge or control of every commercial premises, including every multi-family dwelling, in the city shall comply with all obligations related to organic waste, including the following minimum standards: (A) Any commercial premises, including any multi-family dwelling, that generates four cubic yards or more of organic waste per week shall arrange for recycling services specifically for organic waste, unless such premises does not generate organic waste. (B) Organic waste recycling required by this § 6.30.090 may be accomplished by any one of the following: (1) Subscribing to organics collection services offered by a franchisee; (2) Recycling or composting organic waste for use onsite; (3) Self haul of organic waste, in a manner consistent with all other provisions of this chapter, to a lawfully permitted location for recycling or composting.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: 2026 S-15: Supplement contains: Local legislation current through Ordinance 2026-432, passed 4-15-2026).
Full Breakdown
090, titled Recovery of Organic Waste, applies to every commercial premises and multi-family dwelling in Menifee and layers organic-waste-specific duties on top of the chapter's general solid waste rules. Subsection (A) sets the trigger: any commercial premises or multi-family dwelling generating four cubic yards or more of organic waste per week must arrange recycling services specifically for that organic waste, unless the premises simply does not generate organic waste. 060(H)(4) provided the waste goes to a lawfully permitted facility. A fifth path lets the City Manager authorize, in writing, any other method permitted by law.
Subsection (D) gives the City Manager authority to demand written documentation demonstrating compliance with any part of the section. The requirement implements the state's organic waste diversion mandate under 14 Cal. Code of Regulations, Division 7, Chapter 12, and was adopted by Ordinance 2020-294 on March 18, 2020, and amended by Ordinance 2022-335 on March 16, 2022. 100, a written plan for achieving organic waste diversion consistent with 14 Cal. 3.
Violations & Fines
Section 6.30.120(C) carves out a separate administrative citation track for organic waste violations under Chapter 1.30 of the municipal code. After a notice of violation citing 14 Cal. Code of Regulations Section 18995.4, the property gets 60 days to comply. If it still doesn't, the city can issue administrative fines of $50 for a first violation, $100 for a second, and $250 for a third or subsequent violation, on top of any other remedy including misdemeanor or infraction prosecution and public nuisance abatement.
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