Under California state law, SB 1383, commercial organic waste generators must subscribe to organic waste collection services through a franchise solid waste hauler. An exception to this is self-hauling, where an entity that is not the franchise hauler takes your business' organic waste and brings it to be disposed. Self-hauling is an allowable alternative to weekly organics collection service. 

Self-hauling could look like: 

• A landscaper does yard work for an office park and brings the yard waste to the landfill.
• A farmer comes to pick up a restaurant's food waste weekly for her pigs. 
• A winery brings their grape pomace to a farm nearby that composts it. 

The organic waste must be hauled to a facility, operation, activity or property that processes and recovers source separated organic waste. 

Commercial businesses that self-haul must keep records to prove their compliance. You do not have to submit these records anywhere, but they are required to be maintained.

Commercial businesses that are self-haulers must keep record of: 

• Delivery receipts and weight tickets from each entity that recieves organic materials, including the amount of organic material in cubic yards or tons. 
• If the organic waste is transported to a site that does not have scales or that employs scales incapable of weighing the waste recieved, the self-hauler is not required to record the weight of material. However, the self-hauler must maintain a record of the entity that received the organic waste. 

 The below template is to assist self-hauling businesses with recordkeeping. Use of this form is optional, self-haulers are free to use any recordkeeping system as long as it adheres to the above requirements. 

Questions about this requirement? Give us a call at (805) 782-8530.