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Paradise utility, town staff outline rollout of state organics law and expected rate changes
Summary
Town contractors and utility officials told the council that Paradise will start weekly curbside collection of food and green waste in January 2026 to meet California Senate Bill 1383 requirements, with interim hauling to Yolo County and a roughly 10.5% rate increase for ratepayers.
Paradise officials and Northern Recycling and Waste Services staff told the Town Council that the town will begin weekly collection of commingled food and green waste in January 2026 to comply with California Senate Bill 1383.
“SB 13 83 was a really big change in solid waste laws in California,” said Susan, a staff member who presented the item with Doug Spiker, general manager of Northern Recycling and Waste Services (NRWS). “It required that every jurisdiction really hit 4 big pillars of this Senate bill… 1 being organics collection.”
The speakers said the new service will move the town from alternating green-waste/recycling schedules to weekly service for all three carts (garbage, recycling and organics). NRWS crews will use new trucks designed to carry wet food waste and the company said it has acquired equipment and hired staff to start in January.
Nut graf: The change responds to SB 1383, a 2022 California law that requires jurisdictions to offer organics…
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