Union City's Organics Reduction and Recycling ordinance implements California SB 1383, requiring all residents and businesses to subscribe to recycling and compost service and to keep organic waste (food scraps, yard waste, soiled paper) out of the landfill cart.
Union City adopted an Organics Reduction and Recycling ordinance (Ord. 889-21, 2021) implementing California SB 1383, the Short-Lived Climate Pollutant Reduction Act of 2016. SB 1383 requires keeping compostable materials including food scraps, yard trimmings, and food-soiled paper out of landfills. All generators must subscribe to recycling and compost collection and source-separate: recyclables in the blue cart, organics in the green cart, and only trash in the gray landfill cart. Organic waste in the landfill cart is prohibited. Multifamily buildings of five or more units must subscribe and provide labeled bins in shared areas. The ordinance also sets edible-food-recovery duties for Tier One and Tier Two commercial edible food generators, who must donate surplus edible food to recovery organizations.
Failure to subscribe to or properly separate recycling and organics violates the City's ordinance (Ord. 889-21) and SB 1383 (Pub. Res. Code §42652 et seq.). Repeated contamination can trigger prohibited-item fees and enforcement by the City and CalRecycle.
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