Fall 2019

BURRTEC NEWS Waste and Recycling Newsletter

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Holiday Schedule

When the holiday falls on a weekday, collections for the remainder of the week will be delayed by one day. There is no service interruption or delay when the holiday falls on a Saturday or Sunday.

No service on these holidays

• Memorial Day • Thanksgiving Day• Independence Day • Christmas Day• Labor Day • New Year’s Day

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Contact InformationBurrtec Waste Industries111 East Mill StreetSan Bernardino, CA 92408Automated Payment Service(866) 306-8170Customer Service(909) 804-4222Hours of OperationMonday - Friday8:00 am to 5:00 pmWebsiteBurrtec.com ?

Did You Know?Roughly 30 to 40 percent of the food supply in the U.S. is wasted, that equals 20 pounds of food wasted per person per month.

Effective January 2019, the State’s Mandatory Organic Waste Recycling law (AB 1826) will require all businesses generating more than four cubic yards of solid waste per week and multi-family residential properties with five dwelling units or more that generate four cubic yards of solid waste per week, to arrange for organics recycling services. Burrtec offers food waste and green waste service to assist in complying with the law. Please see the schedule below. Note: The state law contains a trigger that will increase the scope of affected businesses in 2020, if waste reduction targets are not met.

You can comply by taking the following actions:• Separate your organic waste from your trash and subscribe to food and/or landscape organics recycling service with

Burrtec Waste Industries.• Multi-family residential properties are required to establish recycling service for landscape organics only.• Donate edible food to a food bank, or food rescue as appropriate. For food rescue information contact Community

Action Partnership of San Bernardino County at (909) 723-1500.

You may be in compliance if:• Contract landscaper removes green waste organics as part of their service and takes it to a composting facility for

recycling.• Food waste organics are back-hauled to a distribution center for recycling.• Food waste is donated to a non-profit for distribution to those in need.

It is important that your business ensure compliance by contacting Burrtec at (909) 804-4222 to either set up organics service or verify compliance.

Year Cubic Yards Generated Weekly

2019 4 Cubic Yards (commercial solid waste, regardless of amount of organic waste)

2020 2 Cubic Yards (commercial solid waste, if state does not meet goal)

New Threshold For Mandatory Organics Recycling

Organic MaterialsFood

WasteLandscape Waste

Sponsored by the City of San Bernardino and Burrtec Waste Industriesfor the San Bernardino Commercial Community

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As of January 1, 2018, China, the largest market for the world’s recycling materials, enforced the new “National Sword” policy. This policy banned numerous materials including several types of plastics, unsorted mixed paper and set strict standards for contamination levels. This policy has impacted recycling operations across the U.S. such that stakeholders are now faced with the challenges of stockpiled recyclables with little to no value in commodities markets, improving and lowering the levels of contamination from recyclables, and learning that certain materials may no longer be recyclable. We need your support. In order to continue pursuing alternative markets and help contain costs, please help lower the levels of contamination by only placing acceptable materials in your recycling container.

Sorted recycle bales are shipped to recycling manufacturing companies and made into new products. At the sorting line at the Material Recovery Facility (MRF), workers must remove any contaminants— this is an essential but also time-consuming step that can slow down the process. If any contaminants are missed in the sorting process, the finished recycle bales could be rejected by recycling manufacturers and, therefore, not acceptable to be recycled. Keeping your containers free of trash and non-recyclable contaminants will help in reducing unavoidable future recycling cost increases. Spread the message, “Help keep your recycling clean!”

Help KeepYour Recycling Clean

Scavenging is Against the LawWhether it’s called dumpster diving or scavenging, it is the unauthorized removal of solid waste materials. Removal of materials from a bin may increase the cost of collection services. Materials placed in a recycling bin have a value that is used to offset collection and processing costs. When a scavenger breaks the law and removes those materials they are also removing any value associated with the recycling program, which ultimately affects costs. If you see a scavenger, do not approach them! Report illegal activity to local law enforcement. Also, please help us help you. Do not give permission to scavengers to take recyclables.

The unauthorized removal of materials from this container.

What is Scavenging? ¿Que es hurgar desechos?

Scavenging is stealing and

punishable by law!

Hurgar desechos es robar y castigado

por ley!

Es el llevarse materiales sin autorización de este recipiente.

Make Your Recycling Program a Success!Ensuring the success of your recycling program depends on a few key elements; most importantly assistance from employees and/or residents.

Here are a few pointers to get you started in the right direction:

C Post signage to remind employees and/or residents to recycle specific items (cardboard, paper, etc.). Communication is essential! Newsletters and flyers also reinforce the message.

C Placement of recycling containers next to trash containers increases the chances of getting more recyclables into the correct container.

C Emptying recycling containers into the proper recycling bin will ensure that your business or multi-family residential dwelling is doing their part to lower costs and reduce landfill waste.

✔ Aerosol cans (must be completely empty) ✔ Aluminum cans✔ Brochures ✔ Cardboard ✔ Cartons ✔ Cereal boxes (remove wax paper lining) ✔ Computer paper ✔ Coupons

Recycle Right!Place these types of materials in your recycling container.

✔ Envelopes ✔ Glass bottles, jars ✔ Glass cosmetic bottles ✔ Junk mail ✔ Laundry bottles ✔ Magazines/catalogs ✔ Newspaper ✔ Paper

✔ Paper tubes ✔ Phone books ✔ Plastic containers #1– #7 ✔ Plastic milk jugs ✔ Styrofoam products ✔ Tin cans ✔ Tissue boxes ✔ Wrapping paper