(a) Owners or managers of multifamily or commercial properties must provide Adequate Refuse Collection Service to the tenants, employees, contractors, and customers of the properties.
(b) Owners or managers of multifamily or commercial properties must supply appropriate containers, placed in an appropriate location, to make source separation of refuse convenient for the tenants, employees, contractors, and customers of the properties. The containers must:
(1) Be of appropriate number and size in light of the recyclable, compostable, and trash quantities reasonably anticipated to be generated at the location;
(2) Bear appropriate signage and be color coded to identify the type of refuse to be contained—blue for recyclables, green for compostables, and black for trash—and meet any additional design criteria established by the Department by regulation; and,
(3) Be placed as close together as possible, to provide equally convenient access to users.
(c) Owners or managers of multifamily or commercial properties must provide information and/or training for new tenants, employees, and contractors, including janitors, on how to source separate recyclables, compostables, and trash before or within 14 days of occupation by new tenants, and must re-educate existing tenants, employees, and contractors at least once a year.
(d) Owners and managers of commercial properties or their contractors shall work with on-site janitors to create effective source separation programs as a means of achieving compliance, meeting citywide diversion goals, and achieving the diversion or disposal rate reported annually to the State of California.
(e) Owners and managers of commercial properties or their contractors shall periodically inspect containers for recyclables, containers for compostables, and containers for trash for contamination, and shall inform employees when containers are contaminated. At that time, and periodically, they shall inform employees of the requirements to keep contaminants out of containers. For purposes of this Section 1904, “contamination” means the presence in a container of materials that are not permitted to be included in that type of container.
(f) New construction or expansion of multifamily or commercial properties may be subject to Department of Building Inspection requirements, such as Administrative Bulletin 088 and Building Code Chapter 13, Section 1304C, to provide adequate space for recyclables and compostables, which includes requiring any chute systems to keep compostables, recyclables, and trash separate.
(Added by Ord. 100-09, File No. 081404, App. 6/23/2009; amended by Ord. 90-22, File No. 220607, App. 6/15/2022, Eff. 7/16/2022)