San Leandro, CA Trash & Recycling: Mandatory Organics Recycling (2026)

Chapter 3-24, adopted November 15, 2021 to implement SB 1383, incorporates the Alameda County Waste Management Authority's Organics Reduction and Recycling Ordinance and makes San Leandro a "member agency" under it. Section 3-24-300 requires single-family generators to subscribe to compost, recycling, and landfill container service and place food waste in the compost bin, recyclables in the recycling bin, and everything else in the landfill bin, unless they qualify as a self-hauler or fall under a CalRecycle low-population waiver. Section 3-24-400 layers heavier duties on commercial businesses and multi-family dwellings: they must supply color-coded or labeled bins (gray/black for landfill, blue for recycling, green for compost) in every area with disposal containers, train and periodically inspect for contamination, give tenants written notice of sorting rules within 14 days of move-in, and let the enforcement agency access the property for inspections.

Waivers exist under § 3-24-500 for businesses generating under 10 or 20 gallons of organics weekly depending on their total service size, or for sites that physically lack room for extra bins, subject to renewal every five years.