Food Scrap Pails
Objectives
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SB 1383 Compliance
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Educate Community
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Green Waste Diversion
Resources
Location
Burbank, CA
Year
2022
Partners
City of Burbank
Burbank Recycle Center
Food is Not Trash
Working closely with the Burbank Recycle Center, reps at Burbank schools are helping to hand out green pails for parents to collect food scraps at home.
Food scraps must now be added to green bins along with yard trimmings. Green pails are FREE for Burbank residents, limit 1 per household.
Want to learn about SB 1383? Curious what can go in the food scrap pails and what can't? Read more below.
What can go in the food scrap pails?
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All food scraps, including animal-derived food (meat, bones, dairy, eggshells)
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Coffee grounds and loose tea leaves (no plastic tea bags)
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Food-soiled paper products (no plastic linings)
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Yard trimmings
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Clean, untreated wood scraps
What should NOT go in the food scrap pails?
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Plastic bags
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Compostable plastics
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Packaging
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Plastic food ware
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Food stickers
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Utensils
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Gloves
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Pet waste
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Litter
What is SB 1383?
Senate Bill (SB) 1383 is a new state law: California's Short-Lived Climate Pollutants Reduction Act.
Redirecting organics from landfills.
Redistributing edible food to those in need.
We are reducing methane, a hazardous air pollutant, which is emitted as food and other organic materials rot in the landfill. Instead it will become compost!