What Goes in the Organics Cart:
Food scraps (Raw, Cooked and Rotten!), food soiled paper and yard trimmings go in your Green Organics Cart.

What Does NOT Go in the Organics Cart:
• No plastics, dirt or rock, please.

• Plastic items marked “compostable” (bags, cutlery, etc.) are not accepted in the Organics Cart - our facility cannot process them.

See more examples below.

Click to learn more about SB 1383, California’s Food Waste Reduction law.

To cut down on mess, line your food pail with newspaper or paper towels. Don’t want to use your pail? Simply collect food scraps in a bowl, in newspaper, or in paper cartons. Take the collected scraps out to the green cart every few days or store the container in the fridge.

Fruit and vegetable trimmings, food

Leftovers & uneaten food scraps

Paper food wrap, paper plates and paper trays, cartons & pizza boxes

Napkins, paper towels, paper plates

Tea leaves and bags, coffee filters & grounds, paper cups and cupholders

Plant trimmings & flowers

Branches

The items below – plastic and "compostable" plastic bags, containers and cutlery; pet waste; treated wood and seedling pots – cannot be composted. Please keep them out of the Green Organics Cart.