This Wednesday, some San Diegans will put their shiny new green bins on the curb to be taken to city composting facilities, and for the first time they will include food waste. It’s part of the city's new organics recycling program, which began rolling out last week with the delivery of thousands of new kitchen pails and green bins to local residents.
There are lots of items now that are packaged in compostable material. I'm thinking about some produce bags, coffee filters and takeout containers, but those can't just be put in backyard compost bins. They require industrial composters. Will those things all be compostable through this new program?Unfortunately, they won't.
And some homes already have green bins. Can they continue to use those for all of their organic recycling or are there special bins designated for food?They absolutely can use those bins. And for those 40,000 homes that currently have green organic bins serviced by the city of San Diego, they will know when to start organic recycling after they get their kitchen waste bin and food pail.
The organic waste recycling program is part of a state law, Senate Bill 1383, which was supposed to go into effect at the beginning of last year. Why did it take an additional year to begin rolling out the program?Well, CalRecycle and the City of San Diego have been in constant contact since this regulation has been put into place. CalRecycle is fully aware of the hurdles that the City of San Diego faced, which included not having all of its residents subscribe to the organic waste program.
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