Bin There, Done That: LA City Council OKs Incentives for Organic Waste Disposal

The aim is to get more restaurants and residents signed up by starting them out with a bin and up to nine months of service.

Compostable materials bins are seen in San Francisco on April 21, 2009. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

The Los Angeles City Council approved a new program May 8 to encourage more restaurants and residents to properly dispose of organic waste.

The council voted 11-0 in favor of establishing the LA Organic Compliance Incentive Program, which is intended to support the city’s recycLA efforts and comply with Senate Bill 1383, a law that aims to achieve a 75 percent reduction in emissions of short-lived climate pollutants by 2025, and rescue at least 20 percent of currently disposed surplus food by the same year.