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What SB 1383 requires of your multifamily property and who does what.
SB 1383 is California's organic waste law. It requires multifamily properties to provide organics collection alongside trash and recycling, keep those streams free of contamination, and educate residents. The reporting is filed by the zero-waste expert at your hauler or county. Green Glove Heroes works directly with that expert, corrects issues on the property, and keeps your containers compliant six days a week at multifamily properties across Northern California.
SB 1383 applies to multifamily complexes with five or more units. CalRecycle sets the rules and your city or county enforces them, and that enforcement is getting stricter every year. Here's what the regulation asks of you as the owner or manager:
Your city or county can add its own rules on top of these, so read your local ordinance too. CalRecycle on SB 1383 ยท CalRecycle: multifamily requirements
Cities and counties had to start enforcing SB 1383 by January 1, 2024, and there are a few ways that enforcement reaches a multifamily property.
Annual compliance review. If your property has five or more units and produces 2 cubic yards or more of waste per week, your jurisdiction reviews it every year. Often that's a paper check that you have organics service.
Contamination checks. At least once a year, inspectors randomly inspect containers on your hauler's route. Separate waste evaluations sample the loads twice a year, and when a container type exceeds 25% contamination, the jurisdiction notifies and educates the properties on that route.
Notices and fines. For most other violations, the jurisdiction sends a Notice of Violation and gives you 60 days to fix it. After that, state base penalties are $50 to $100 for a first violation, $100 to $200 for a second violation within a year, and $250 to $500 for each subsequent violation. Your local ordinance sets the exact process. CalRecycle: jurisdiction enforcement
Our porters sort your streams by hand Sunday through Friday, with visit times set by routing and your property's needs, so contamination is pulled out before the truck comes.
Take this list along when you walk your trash areas. Anything you answer with a "no" or a "not sure" is where we'd start on a complimentary on-site visit.
Your hauler provides the organics service and, with your county, files the reporting. Your city or county inspects and enforces. Your property is responsible for compliance on the ground. Green Glove Heroes is the on-the-ground part: sorting, correcting, labeling, documenting, and coordinating with the zero-waste expert who files.
A property can have organics service on paper and still be out of compliance every single day because residents put the wrong things in the wrong bins, and nobody corrects it before the truck arrives. Our porters attend training sessions conducted by Zero Waste specialists in every city we serve, and they sort your streams by hand, Sunday through Friday.
When a notice comes in, we take over as the property's point of contact with the city or county. Our crew photographs the correction with the date on it, and we stay with the zero-waste expert until the issue is closed. City & county coordination
SB 1383 compliance does not require buying the largest organic service available. It means the right containers, sized to what's generated, kept clean. Custom Program Design
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Yes. Multifamily properties in California must provide organics collection alongside trash and recycling, keep the streams clean, and educate residents.
Organics collection for residents, streams free of contamination, resident education in the form required by the jurisdiction, and containers labeled and placed for compliance.
No, the zero-waste expert at your hauler or county files it, and we work with that expert while we correct issues on the property.
The property does, which is why our porters correct contamination before pickup six days a week.
We reset the streams, document the correction, and become your contact with the city or county until the notice is closed.
Yes, delivered by your city's or hauler's zero-waste coordinator using the jurisdiction's own materials. Training & Resident Support
Cities and counties had to begin enforcing by January 1, 2024.
State base penalties run $50 to $100 for a first violation, $100 to $200 for a second within a year, and $250 to $500 for each one after that. Most violations begin with a Notice of Violation and a 60-day compliance period. Your local ordinance sets the details.
It applies to multifamily complexes with five or more units.
New tenants need it within 14 days of moving in, and every tenant needs it at least once a year.
Not necessarily. What it takes is the right containers, sized to what the property generates and kept clean.
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