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

060(B) of the Murrieta Municipal Code implement California's SB 1383 organic-waste mandate by requiring every generator, residential and commercial, to sort its waste correctly among the city's three carts. The single-family provision requires generators to place source separated green container organic waste, including food waste, in the green container; source separated recyclable materials in the blue container; and gray container waste in the gray container, and states that generators shall not place materials designated for the gray container into the green container or blue container.

The same subsection makes clear that it is unlawful and a violation of the chapter to place contamination in a collection container, which may subject the generator to a contamination processing fee or enforcement action. 060 imposes parallel duties on businesses and multi-family properties, plus added obligations: supplying accessible, correctly labeled organics and recycling containers in customer areas, training employees annually on sorting, and letting city inspectors on site to confirm compliance. The chapter's findings section explains that SB 1383's implementing regulations, adopted by CalRecycle in 2020, require Murrieta to divert organic waste from landfills to cut methane emissions, and that the city must adopt an enforceable local mechanism to make that happen; this chapter is that mechanism. 070.