Recycle bins

That's why the new laws were needed, 70% to 80% of what is going into landfills is commercial waste. The trash companies have no motivation economically, they make the most money by weight, volume (renting dumpsters) and trips (the status quo). They make the majority of there huge profits on commercial waste, residential is very profitable, but nothing compared to commercial waste.

Like I said earlier here in Cal. residential recycling has been the law since 1989. Commercial is only getting into the act since 2012 when law was passed to have a recycling dumpster on site for very large facilities. By law the trash companies had to provide these at a much lower rate then there garbage service. That system has been a joke, very inefficient, most of the time they are only half full and mostly paper and cardboard. I can tell you most commercial garbage is recyclable (60 to 70 percent).



These new laws have put each city as the recycling enforcer, code enforcement will now be checking commercial property owners have a working recycling program that mandates 50% reduction of landfill waste by 2020.

Normally I hate these laws (for that matter we have enough laws already). The big trash companies are crooked period, left to them we will be swallowed by our own waste. They just want to keep picking it up and dumping it in a hole, we are running out of holes and the holes turn into mountains of trash. Residential waste has met the mandate over 15 years ago, why has commercial waste not been doing it at the same time? Trash companies have been paying politicians to stall and keep them rolling in cash long enough! The new law allows for other than trash companies to participate for the first time. We might actually see some new methods for dealing with our trash.