Businesses: Organics (Green) Bin
You can put both food scraps and landscape trimmings in your green bin. If it was once alive, it can go in the bin—and that includes food-soiled paper! Paper was once a tree, and the food will contaminate paper recycling if you put it in the blue bin.
(However, if you are a restaurant, grocery or large food waste generator participating in the Food Recycling Project, you cannot put landscaping green waste in your green food recycling bin; we can only process food waste to create electricity.)
Put in Your Green Cart
Landscape Trimmings
- Brush
- Flower cuttings
- Flowers
- Garden trimmings
- Hay
- House plants
- Lawn clippings
- Leaves
- Prunings
- Shrubbery
- Straw
- Tree twigs (4 feet or less in length and 6 inches in diameter)
- Weeds
- Wood chips
Food Scraps
- Bones, shells
- Breads, grains, pastas
- Dairy products
- Fruits
- Food scraps, raw or cooked
- Grease, in small amounts
- Meats, seafood
- Veggies
Food-Soiled Paper
- Pizza boxes
- Paper cups
- Paper plates
- Napkins
- Paper towels (used for food spills, without cleaning fluids)
Do Not Put in Green Cart
- Ashes
- Cactus, succulents
- Large tree trunks and stumps
- Pet waste or manure
- Plastic bags, regular or biodegradable
- Plastic, glass or metal
- Poison oak, poison ivy
- Rocks, concrete, sod or dirt
- Treated or painted wood