Simi Valley, CA Trash & Recycling: Recycling Requirements (2026)

14(c) requires single-family organic waste generators to participate in the City's three-container system for source-separated recyclable materials, source-separated green container organic materials, and gray container waste. The section spells out the sorting rule directly: green container organic waste, including food waste, source-separated recyclable materials go in the blue container, and gray container waste goes in the gray container, with a specific prohibition on placing gray-container material into either the green or blue container. 05 imposes the parallel mandate on commercial generators, including multi-family residential dwellings, requiring them to subscribe to the franchised hauler's three-container collection service unless they qualify as self-haulers, and it gives the City authority to review a generator's container count, size and pickup frequency to make sure capacity matches need.

Commercial businesses that qualify as Tier One or Tier Two commercial edible food generators carry an added duty under the same section: they must arrange to recover the maximum amount of edible food otherwise headed for disposal and contract with a food recovery organization or service to do it. 15. 03, which lets a resident manage food scraps or yard waste on site instead of using the green container, provided any compost pile in a residential zone stays out of street view.