Compost bins rolling out in San Diego


Green waste bins are being prepared to be rolled out to homes across the city of San Diego as the Department of Environmental services starts up their green waste program.Get more news about waste bin,you can vist our website!

All organic and food waste products will no longer be slated for the grey trash bins, but they now will be placed in the green bins with yard clippings.The bins will cost nothing to the resident and is slated to start in mid-January. Roughly 300,000 households are slated to receive a bin and residents can get as many as two free bins.

There is no additional cost at this time and there is no scheduled new fee on the horizon. Free compost is now available to all San Diego city residents.
The goal with the new program is to cut back on the estimated 40% of food waste, which goes directly into the landfills. This program is being fused with the existing services of trash collection and recycling.

A Sacramento garbage truck was captured on video recently dumping an entire organic waste container into the truck and driving off. A Sacramento man added some music and emojis to video of the experience and posted it to Reddit.

He said that he called 311 to report losing the container and the city sent him a replacement bin for free.

A Sacramento city spokesperson told KCRA 3 that’s the correct approach to take if something similar should happen to anyone else.

“Our operators have cameras in the trucks to watch the containers as they empty them, so they would generally take note if a container goes into the truck and would add it to a list to get the container replaced right away,” Jesa David said.

While containers can likely be replaced without any action on a customer’s part, people can still report it to 311 or 916-264-5011 if outside city limits.