Business, Commercial and Multi-Family (Apartment) Services

Edible Food Recovery

Why waste food when you can share it? California State Law SB 1383 requires businesses, grocery stores, restaurants, and hospitality venues of a certain size to make plans to donate still-edible food that will not be sold or consumed. Cities and agencies within Monterey County have been working hard to make this process as easy as downloading an app to put the word out to non-profit feeding organizations. For more information on how the FREE CareIt app works, click here to visit our partners at Salinas Valley Recycles.

Multi-family Recycling Tools

Organics recycling (yard waste and food scraps) may be required for your multi-family (apartment) complex. Contact us at 888-678-6798 to discuss whether your complex is required by state law to participate in this program. We are here to assist you with establishing and maintaining a successful program. Take a look at the videos below and click on the links to the toolkits we have available for multi-family residents and complex managers.

“How to Recycle at Work”

Tri-Cities Disposal & Recycling partnered with our friends at Salinas Valley Recycles to create this video about “How to Recycle at Work.” The same rules and techniques for recycling at work apply at home. Remember, recycling only works if the materials are free of contamination. That means everything in your mixed recycling should be Empty, Clean, Dry & Loose (no bags). Click on the video links below to learn more about recycling at work and home in the Salinas Valley.

Quick Link Brochures & Documents for Businesses:

AB 341, AB 827 & SB 1383 Mandatory Recycling Laws:
Commercial Recycling, Provide Recycling Containers, Food Scraps Recycling & Commercial Food Recovery (en ingles y español)

2023 Commercial & Multi-family Services Guide (Guía de Servicios Comerciales)

2023 Salinas Valley Recycles Residential Guide to Recycling & Hazardous Waste

2023/2024 Standard Residential & Commercial Services and Monthly Fees for Gonzales, Greenfield, and Soledad

Dropbox Dimensions, Rates & Guidelines

State of California (CalRecycle) Requirements for Businesses

SB 1383 Reduction of Short-lived Climate Pollutants

In September 2016, Governor Brown signed SB 1383 (Lara, Chapter 395, Statutes of 2016), establishing methane emissions reduction targets in a statewide effort to reduce emissions of short-lived climate pollutants (SLCP) in various sectors of California’s economy. The bill codifies the California Air Resources Board’s Short-Lived Climate Pollutant Reduction Strategy, established pursuant to SB 605 (Lara, Chapter 523, Statutes of 2014), in order to achieve reductions in the statewide emissions of short-lived climate pollutants. Actions to reduce short-lived climate pollutants are essential to address the many impacts of climate change on human health, especially in California’s most at-risk communities, and on the environment.

SB 1383 Requirements:

• Businesses must arrange for organics recycling service and provide interior collection containers.

• Recycling containers must be placed adjacent to trash containers, easily accessible, and clearly marked.

• Local government must monitor containers to minimize prohibited container contaminants.

• Enforcement actions may result for non-compliant entities.

For more information on SB 1383, visit the CalRecycle website

AB 1826 Mandatory Organics Recycling for Businesses, Multi-family, and Public Entities

AB 1826 went into effect in January of 2016. The law requires businesses to recycle their organic waste on and after April 1, 2016, depending on the amount of waste they generate per week. This law also requires that on and after January 1, 2016, local jurisdictions across the state implement an organic waste recycling program to divert organic waste generated by businesses, including multifamily residential dwellings that consist of five or more units. Organic waste (also referred to as organics) means food waste, green waste, landscape and pruning waste, nonhazardous wood waste, and food-soiled paper waste that is mixed in with food waste. This law phases in the mandatory recycling of commercial organics over time while offering an exemption process for rural counties. In particular, the minimum threshold of organic waste generation by businesses decreases over time, which means that an increasingly greater proportion of the commercial sector will be required to comply.

AB 1826 Requirements:

• A business, multi-family complex, or public entity must implement an organics recycling service and divert organic waste if it generates 2 cubic yards or more of commercial solid waste per week (total for trash, recycling, and organics).

For more information on AB 1826, visit the CalRecycle website

AB 827 Commercial and Organic Waste Recycling Bins

California’s Legislature, through AB 827 (McCarty, 2019), amended two existing laws - the Mandatory Commercial Recycling law, commonly referred to as MCR, and the Mandatory Commercial Recycling Organics Recycling law, commonly referred to as MORe. AB 827 is intended to educate and involve consumers in achieving the state’s recycling goals by requiring businesses subject to MCR and/or MORe to make recycling and/or organic recycling bins available to customers.

AB 827 Requirements:

• Businesses must provide customers with recycling and/or organics recycling collection bins or containers to collect recyclable materials generated from products purchased on the premises.

AB 341 Mandatory Commercial Recycling

California State Law AB 341 (2011) requires commercial entities that generate four or more cubic yards of waste per week and all multi-family complexes of five or more units to implement recycling programs. Blue cart and cardboard recycling are included in the price of your commercial service. Tri-Cities Disposal & Recycling has recycling and waste diversion experts on staff who will be happy to assist your business or apartment complex with implementing a recycling program. For more information on AB 341, visit the CalRecycle website.

Our Services

Tri-Cities Disposal & Recycling Service offers a variety of refuse and recycling services for our commercial and multi-family (apartment) customers. For garbage collection services, customers can choose between 64 and 96-gallon cart services or 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6 cubic yard front-load garbage dumpsters. Most of the refuse services are available up to 5 days per week.

Mixed recycling service is available in 96, 250, 300, and 450-gallon containers. Only the 96-gallon container has wheels. Sizes larger than 96 gallons are provided by availability. Commercial mixed recycling follows the same rules as the residential recycling service, which you will find by clicking here.

Cardboard recycling service is about 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6 cubic yard front load containers. Unfortunately, not all services are available to all customers because of space and height constraints. All containers except 6 cubic yards have wheels.

Contamination

Business owners and multi-family complexes should take special care in safeguarding all dumpsters and carts from illegal dumping and contamination. This site contains extensive information on what is allowed and not allowed in each container. Please see the 2023 Commercial Service Guide for a complete list of items. Contaminated dumpsters or carts will not be collected and are subject to a contamination fee. In order to resume collection services after contamination is noted, the property owner will need to remove all contamination from the container. For sites that do not have locked enclosures or experience chronic illegal dumping by members of the public, lock bar service is recommended (fees apply).

Please contact us toll-free at 1-888-678-6798 to determine what options are available for your particular property.