California’s Mandatory Commercial Recycling Law

AB 1826 was signed in Sept. 2014. It requires businesses that produce specified amounts of organic waste to do at least one of the following:
• Source-separate organic waste and subscribe to an organic waste recycling service;
• Recycle organic waste onsite or self-haul it to a recycling facility;
• Sell or donate surplus food; or
• Subscribe to a mixed-waste recycling service that recycles organic waste.