Imperial Valley Resource Management
Agency

Businesses are required to either:

1. Subscribe to and participate in their jurisdiction’s organics curbside collection service OR

2. Self-haul organic waste to a specified composting facility, community composting program, or other collection activity or program.

Also, companies are free to sell or donate their recyclables (Public Resources Code Section 41952).

Except in restrooms, businesses are required to provide collecting containers for recyclables and organic garbage in any area where consumers are given disposal containers.

• However, if a business does not generate any of the materials that would be collected in a specific container, then it does not have to provide that particular container.

Internal containers must conform to the proper color requirements or labeling requirements.

• Suppose a business chooses to use containers that are the correct color. In that case, internal containers do not need to be replaced until they are no longer functional or until January 1, 2036, whichever comes first.

Businesses need to educate staff members, subcontractors, tenants, and consumers on how to correctly sort organic material into the appropriate containers to minimize contamination. Businesses must periodically:

• Inspect organic waste containers for contamination

•  Inform employees if containers are contaminated

• Instruct employees about how to properly sort material into the correct containers.

Businesses must provide organic waste collection services for:

1. Employees

2. Tenants

3. Contractors

4. Customers

A sufficient quantity, size, and placement of containers with the appropriate labels or container colors must be provided, and access must be granted.

In addition, they have to give new tenants information within 14 days of taking up residence on the property and annually train staff members, subcontractors, clients, and tenants on how to appropriately sort organic waste into the appropriate bins.

In commercial buildings, renters, customers, employees, and contractors must all appropriately sort organic materials into the appropriate receptacles.

Public schools and school districts, state agencies, special districts, and federal facilities do not fall under a jurisdiction’s authority and must either:

1. Self-haul organic waste to a designated composting facility, community composting program or other collection activity or program 

2. Contract for collection service independently; or

3. Subscribe to a collection service that the jurisdiction provides.

Jurisdictions will provide information to these entities regarding their requirements for recycling organic waste. Employees need to be trained by property managers or other administrators on how to correctly sort materials into the appropriate containers and how to avoid producing organic waste. Administrators and property managers need to occasionally:

• Inspect organic waste containers for contamination

• Inform employees if containers are contaminated 

• Instruct employees on how to properly sort material into the correct containers.

Except for bathrooms, property managers and administrators are required to supply containers for recyclables and organic waste in all locations where disposal containers are available. Nonetheless, the property manager or administrator is not required to supply a particular kind of internal container if an entity does not produce any of the kind of stuff gathered in that particular container.

Containers must conform to the proper color or labeling requirements.

• Suppose a property manager or administrator chooses to use containers that are the correct color. In that case, internal containers do not need to be replaced until they are no longer functional or until January 1, 2036, whichever comes first. They can adhere correct labels to existing internal containers to comply with SB 1383.

• Employees of these entities must properly sort their organic waste into the correct containers.