Bay View Refuse and Recycling has been working with the Kensington Community Services District on complying with a new State regulation, SB 1383. Your current bill in part reflects an increase to provide for services related to this compliance. Details about SB 1383 are provided below in this letter (effective February 1, 2022).

Mandatory composting, improved sorting, standardized colored three bin system:

SB 1383 focuses on the elimination of methane gas created by organic materials in landfills and requires that clean streams of organic material be collected, recovered, and recycled into new end-products like compost or biofuel. The quality of the end-product is determined by the quality of the material collected, so residents and businesses must properly sort materials, and containers are required to be monitored for contamination.