Recycling is mandatory in the City of San Diego. City of San Diego Ordinance (O-2008-30) and California Assembly Bill 341 require commercial businesses and public entities that generate four or more cubic yards per week of waste, and multi-family housing complexes with five or more units, to adopt and implement recycling practices. Mandatory Recycling How Waste Management Can Help Waste Management can customize a recycling program to meet your multi-family complex or business needs and provide you with recycling education to help ensure its success. Let us Help You Comply! We want to help you achieve compliance. If you are not already subscribed to recycling services, please contact us to add recycling to your existing account. We will help identify the container size to match your recycling needs. Call Waste Management’s Customer Service: (619) 596-5100. To learn more about the City of San Diego’s Mandatory Recycling Ordinance, visit: https://www.sandiego.gov/environmental-services/recycling/ro To learn more about Assembly Bill 341 visit: http://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/recycle/commercial/ Keeping the recycling stream clean from contamination is absolutely critical in ensuring your community gets the most out of what it’s putting into the recycling container. NO plastic bags, NO food waste, NO soiled materials and NO liquids should be placed in your recycling containers. See reverse side and visit RORR.com for more tips on how to Recycle the Right Way. Help Keep Recycling Clean! City of San Diego Recycling News Summer 2019 California Assembly Bill 1826 requires businesses and large multi-family complexes to arrange for organic waste recycling services. Some examples of organic waste include: Food Scraps including solid, semisolid and liquid food, such as, fruit, vegetables, cheese, meat, bones, poultry, seafood, bread, rice, pasta and oils. Yard Trimmings including grass clippings, leaves, flowers, hedge trimmings, weeds, etc. For organic waste recycling options, please contact your account manager or the Waste Management Customer Service Center at (619) 596-5100. Organic Waste Recycling Waste Management observes the following holidays: Collection service will be delayed one day following the above holidays. If a holiday falls on a Saturday or Sunday, there will be no delays. Holidays Labor Day Thanksgiving Day Christmas Day New Year’s Day Memorial Day Independence Day