Food Waste Recycling Program

The City of Los Angeles has implemented a food waste recycling service for Restaurants and other Food Service Establishments who are commercial customers within the city. This program has been providing service for Western and North Central / East Side areas in Los Angeles. The program has expanded and now includes the South Central and Harbor areas.

What is the Food Waste Recycling Program?

The Food Waste Recycling program is a service that acts just like a solid waste service, but instead of hauling "trash" to a landfill, the City's contractor will haul all organic materials (ie. food scraps including meats, soiled paper, Compostable containers etc.) to a Municipal Composting Facility (Click for more info on Municiple Composting). They also provide containers for inside collection and outside bins with scheduled pick-ups as well as free training and on going support.

Why be on the "Food Waste Recycling" Program?

1. Food Service Industry consumes and produces an incredible amount of waste that is commonly sent to the landfill with up to 85% and/or more, being food waste and other organic matter, the rest being Plastics, metals/aluminum etc. All of these materials just sit in the landfill for many generations creating hazards for our air, water, soil and neighboring communities. Even though organic waste has a chance to degrade in a landfill, it is likely to instead get buried in liquid (anaerobic conditions) creating gasses such as methane- a green house gas. Now days Methane can also be captured and/or used for renewable energy resources… But this is not always the case. More significantly, this organic waste can be diverted from the landfill via Municipal Composting. Therefore instead of polluting the land it can become a resource using it as a natural fertilizer to replenish the land.


2. The City of L.A. is giving an incentive to start this program by subsidizing up to 30% for the first year. This will save you MONEY, but most importantly, you will be Saving the ENVIRONMENT.


3. Compostable containers, cups, utensils and straws made from biobased resins are actually intended to be placed in commercial composting systems such as this one.


4. This is a big step towards becoming a "Green" business.


5. You'll be assisting the City of Los Angeles Zero Waste Plan, making L.A. a Green L.A.

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