The $4 million program is intended to help standalone restaurants that are not part of a chain and multifamily dwellings in lower-income areas recycle their food waste.
The Los Angeles City Council approved a new program Wednesday to encourage more restaurants and residents to properly dispose of organic waste.
Council members Kevin de León, Marqueece Harris-Dawson, Curren Price and Monica Rodriguez were absent during the vote. According to city documents, the state law requires all residential and commercial customers to participate in organics recycling — and the council adopted an ordinance in December 2022 to comply with the bill. However, the city currently lags in compliance, with only 32,414 or 48% of commercial and multifamily customers serviced by the city’s recycLA program compliant.
The incentive program is intended to maximize organics diversion and reduce the potential financial impact for those most impacted by increased costs related to recycling. It will also focus on two categories of customers, referred to as Priority One Customers and Priority Two Customers.
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