Redondo Beach, CA Trash & Recycling: Recycling Requirements (2026)

803 sets the requirements for single-family generators under the City's Mandatory Organic Waste Disposal Reduction ordinance, adopted to comply with SB 1383. Unless a household qualifies as a self-hauler under the Code's self-hauler standards, subsection (a) requires it to subscribe to the City's collection services for all organic waste and recyclable materials it generates, not simply sign up for trash pickup and skip the rest. The City retains the right to review the number and size of a generator's containers to judge whether capacity matches what the household actually produces, and a single-family generator must adjust its service level when the City asks.

802 backs this with a general mandate that organic waste generators, haulers and other covered entities fully comply with SB 1383, its state regulations, this article, and any collection agreement between the City and its franchised hauler, with the state regulations controlling if they ever conflict with the local text. Together these sections mean a Redondo Beach homeowner cannot opt out of the recycling and organics component of curbside service while keeping only trash pickup; the subscription obligation covers all three streams the City's contractor collects.