Beginning in 2022, SB 1383 requires every jurisdiction to provide organic waste collection services to all residents and businesses. Jurisdictions will educate all residents and businesses about collection requirements, including what materials to put in curbside bins.

Current Status: Residential organic waste collection services began on November 1, 2022. Residents who already have a green waste bin are now required to separate their food waste and soiled paper from their trash. Multi-family housing residents can now put food waste items in the green waste bin located in the trash enclosure.

Gated Communities: Burrtec and the City will continue reaching out to all Gated Communities to discuss implementation of this new service. This service will not start for Gated Communities until Summer/Fall of 2023.

Upon request, Burrtec will provide one FREE food waste kitchen pail per household.

Next Steps: SB 1383 requires specific colors for waste collection containers: Gray for landfill waste, Blue for recyclables, Green for organic waste. All new containers will be clearly labeled with what materials are acceptable. Once current containers reach the end of their useful life, Burrtec will replace with the standardized SB 1383 colors.

California's goal is to redirect 20% more edible food to people in need by 2025. This donated food will help feed almost 1 in 4 Californians who do not get enough to eat. 

Starting in 2022, Tier 1 food service businesses must donate edible food to food recovery organizations. Additional Tier 2 businesses will have to start this in 2024.

• Jurisdictions must establish food recovery programs and strengthen their existing food recovery networks

• Food donors must arrange to recover the maximum amount of their edible food that would otherwise go to landfills

• Food recovery organizations and services that participate in SB 1383 must maintain records

Current Status: Burrtec has already identified all Tier 1 businesses in the City.

Next Steps: Burrtec will meet individually with Tier 1 businesses to understand how much edible food is donated, where the edible food is donated to, and is there a formal agreement in place between donator and receiver.

Click the image below to view updated information from Burrtec (in English and Español).

Food Donation List

Here are charitable non-profit organizations in the Coachella Valley that accept food donations:

As California collects and recycles organic materials, local governments will be required to use the products made from this recycled organic material, such as renewable energy, compost, and mulch.

Beginning in 2022, SB 1383 requires cities and counties to procure a set quantity of recovered organic waste products to meet their annual procurement target. These procurement requirements will strengthen California’s green, self-sustaining economy. Demand for these products will drive infrastructure investment and create new green collar jobs in the state.

Jurisdictions can fulfill their annual target by procuring any combination of the following recovered organic waste products:

• Mulch

• Compost

• Renewable Energy (Transportation Fuel, Heat, and Electricity) from Anaerobic Digestion and Electricity from Biomass Conversion

Current Status: La Quinta's annual requirement is 3,300 tons. CalRecycle has set end-product conversion factors for each organic waste product. For example, the City can achieve 100% procurement target with 3,300 tons of mulch; OR 1,914 tons of compost; OR 2,145,000 Kilowatt hours of electricity from Biomass Conversion; OR any combination of the above.

Next Steps: The Governor signed Assembly Bill 1985 in 2022, which only allows CalRecycle to impose penalties on jurisdictions based on staggered procurement target percentages rather than the full target. Jurisdictions must procure at least 33% of their recovered organic waste product target in 2023 and 66% of their target in 2024. The full target amount must be procured in 2025. 

The City will work with Burrtec on a potential agreement for procuring the required amount of recycled organic waste products for distribution to local farmers and country clubs.

SB 1383 regulations require waste audits to be conducted on collection routes regularly to determine evidence of contamination (recycling and organic waste not being sorted correctly). Contamination found in any of the carts requires recording, reporting, and follow-up to educate customers and ensure proper sorting practices are in place.

Current Status: Burrtec will conduct periodic inspections, monitoring, and compliance reviews for both residential and commercial customers, and report their findings to the City. Through December 2023, residents and businesses found not in compliance with sorting their recycling and organic waste properly will receive educational materials and outreach from the City and Burrtec to assist with future compliance.

Next Steps: Starting in January 2024, the City may issue violations with monetary penalties for those still not in compliance.

SB 1383 regulations requires public outreach to educate residents, schools, businesses, and edible food generators on an annual basis. The outreach must be translated into multiple languages, based on the most recent census results.

Current Status: The City is working with Burrtec to develop education and outreach material, in English and Spanish, that will be distributed to all residents, schools, businesses, and edible food generators.

The first SB 1383 Community Webinar was conducted on May 9, 2022 and provided an overview of recycling legislation and SB 1383 requirements that will affect residents and businesses.

A second SB 1383 Community Webinar was conducted on July 13, 2022 and included more details on the residential implementation timeline, especially in our gated communities. It also highlighted the 2-page spread in the GEM Magazine featuring SB 1383 education for residents and businesses.

An in-person SB 1383 Community Workshop was held on October 22, 2022, in the City Hall Council Chambers. In addition to providing an overview of organic waste recycling, it discussed the updated implementation schedule for residents with a green cart and residents in gated communities. Burrtec conducted a live demonstration of food prep and what types of food waste go into the green cart. 

Next Steps: The City will continue to work with Burrtec to ensure education is targeted and assists in meeting the goals and objectives of the program.

The City is required to collaborate with the County of Riverside and surrounding jurisdictions to determine the necessary organic waste recycling and edible food recovery capacity needed to divert organic waste and edible food from the landfill.

Current Status: Burrtec transports all organic waste (including commercial food waste) collected in La Quinta to the Edom Hill and Coachella Valley Compost Facilities located in Cathedral City and Coachella, CA respectively. Burrtec and the City will also identify edible food recovery organizations in the Coachella Valley to assist with meeting the edible food diversion requirements.

Next Steps: Burrtec will ensure that all of the organic waste collected in La Quinta is composted properly.

Jurisdictions that provide for solid waste collection services must maintain all records required by the SB 1383 regulations in an Implementation Record. At a minimum, the following records are required to be maintained in the Implementation Record:

• Ordinances and enforceable mechanisms
• Written program descriptions
• Organic waste service collection
• Contamination minimization, including route reviews and waste evaluations
• Waivers and exemptions
• Education and outreach
• Jurisdiction oversight of hauler programs
• Edible food recovery
• Procurement of recovered organic waste products
• Recycled paper procurement
• Inspection and enforcement
• Compliance reviews
• Investigation of complaints and alleged violations

A jurisdiction may find it beneficial to keep additional records relating to SB 1383 and other diversion or recycling program implementation to further support compliance. The information in the Implementation Record provides an evidentiary record for CalRecycle to evaluate jurisdictional compliance with regulatory requirements.

Jurisdictions are required to implement an inspection and enforcement program to ensure organic waste generators comply with SB 1383 requirements. 

Compliance will be determined by how jurisdictions implement programs that include:

• Organics waste collection, processing, and diversion

• Using recycled organics products like compost and biofuel

• Edible food recovery

The jurisdiction’s oversight and enforcement program is also required to incorporate evaluations of edible food recovery, CAL Green Building Standards, and Water Efficient Landscape program requirements.

Current Status: Burrtec and the City will conduct periodic inspections, monitoring, and compliance reviews for both residential and commercial customers. Through December 2023, residents and businesses found not in compliance with organics waste recycling and edible food recovery (applicable businesses only) will receive educational materials and outreach from the City and Burrtec to assist with future compliance.

Next Steps: Starting in January 2024, the City may issue violations with monetary penalties for those still not in compliance.

Jurisdictions have responsibilities under SB 1383 and are required to report on program implementation and capacity planning. Annually, each jurisdiction shall report the items regarding the implementation of the following:

• Organic waste collection
• Contamination monitoring
• Waivers
• Education and outreach
• Hauler oversight
• Edible food recovery
• Procurement
• CALGreen building standards and model water efficient landscape ordinance
• Capacity planning
• Compliance
• Monitoring
• Enforcement requirements

Information is due in the Electronic Annual Report (EAR) to CalRecycle by October 3, 2022. The SB 1383 report on implementation is for program compliance from January 1, 2022, through June 30, 2022.

Current Status: The City submitted the EAR to CalRecycle on October 3, 2022.

Next Steps: Burrtec will continue to provide the City with required information for the next EAR due in October 2023.