California law SB 1383 requires local jurisdictions to monitor contamination and proper sorting of waste by performing annual route audits, according to the City of Concord.
Beginning this week, an inspector from Mt. Diablo Resource Recovery (MDRR) may be in your neighborhood performing “lid-flips” and looking into your collection carts at residences and businesses.
MDRR is only looking for proper sorting of materials, and may leave outreach information on your carts, including a “Good Job” or “Oops” tag, with helpful tips and suggestions.
MDRR will NOT be: 1) imposing any fines; 2) taking photos of the contents of the carts; 3) touching materials in the carts; or 4) dumping the contents of the cart.
For information about proper sorting, please visit the MDRR website: https://mdrr.com/concord/.
They used to give fines. But isn’t this resource recoverers’s job to do final sort?
No resource recovery is not required to do any thing. Not even have a place to take it to next. If aluminium is above a certain dollar they sort and sell aluminium. If it’s below it all goes to the land fill.
Hey guys. aren’t brown totes recycle and blue totes landfill ? ? ? ?
I thought the brown one was for poop and the blue was for oil and the green was for trash..or was it blue for poop and green for oil..I’m so confused where do we dump the paint now?
Storm drains, Sam. How do you think the fish get such pretty colors.
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Mt. Diablo Resource Recovery (MDRR) has a different set-up than other companies.
We’ve had new neighbors move to Concord and still after 3 years are still confused on what goes where.
This set-up should be changing this year and be like the other garbage companies.
Roz, … Thank You for clearing it up.
This is a load of garbage!
So, they only want clean garbage? I am so glad I don’t have to deal with this nonsense.
Yes, we have a water shortage but they want you to wash your recyclable garbage. In California that makes perfect sense.
…. Newsom’s trash cops? ..this is getting more than ridiculous … now who will audit the auditors? Then a QA team …. omg only here
“Containers Too Close Together”? How are they supposed to asses this if they city’s always threatening to fine us if we don’t keep the cans entirely out of view? Code enforcement came down on our property HARD about the cans being visible even though they were in a semi-hidden space. Now we keep them in the garage at all times. Checkmate, Concord.
Got a letter that they are raising garbage rates 9% after a 10% increase in 2022. Only a monopoly can do that, just ripping Concord business off. Pretty sure the City has to approve price increases.
Nanny state. Do we get a star if we did a good job?
Problem I have with the refuse companies is they have been a bit lazy about their guidelines pamphlets. Not everything is covered and I’ve called about some of those things. What you can put in them may change every year. Seems like another “control factor” on the public.
Did the trash can diver guy get a new title and put on the payroll? Now he is justified to open the trash bags and take the recycling from our cans.
I just burn my garbage. ( is that wrong ? )
Why don’t they do some checking up on their own trucks that roll down the road with all sorts of garbage flying off the top & littering up the roads? I drove to Bethel Island to visit friends and heading home I saw a MDRR truck with loads of paper & plastic flying off and I noticed all kinds of litter already alongside Bethel Island Rd. I can’t believe they aren’t required to clean this crap up!
Exactly! This is why Hwy 680 in both directions is Trashed between Hwy 4 and Marina Vista.
I’ve seen the 40’+ tractor trailers from the Contra Costa transfer as well as regular Republic Services trucks with all kinds of stuff blowing out.
So waste has to be “clean”? Are we gonna have to wash it, thereby wasting more water? How clean is clean? How much inappropriate stuff is allowed in the wrong can and who’s gonna measure it?
This is bull$hit – brought to you by stupid democrats.
When was the last time democrat politicians were audited?
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Make sure to thoroughly wash/rinse your recycle items (during the drought) that will likely not even be recycled so you can get your “Good Job” stickers!
Palo Alto recently tried to do an audit on where their recyclable plastic ends up. They were met with resistance from the recycle companies to tell them but their best guess was that only 40% of recyclable material was actually being recycled and the rest went to Asia. Likely a landfill in Laos or something. So why would I sort it or clean it if it isn’t recycled?
Sorry Asians for our trash..
I won’t say sorry. Asian countries are the most polluting countries in the world! Plus, 40% is probably high.
How do I know if they don’t get any private mail info from my trash? I’ve always been worried about mail identity theft, etc.
Garbage service needs to be considered a Utility and held to standards that provide resolutions and protections for consumers afforded by TURN, The Utility Reform Network.
“TURN works with state and Federal legislators, supports policy development, organizes communities, and galvanizes allies in order to hold utility companies accountable and be an advocate for utility consumers.”
As is, there is no alternative to resolution when their demands become ridiculous and obsessive, … like the need to “wash” your recycling. If the stuff they are disposing off has to be that clean,that is a cost to the company of doing business. Especially, in California in a drought year. To ask otherwise, is outrageous.
The service is compulsory. There are few, if any, alternatives, and the services are expensive. The consumer is left to fend for themself without any competing business that would normalize the cost. Customers are at their mercy.
Food scraps in the hot summer heat? I think there was a song in the 70s “That Smell”
So are they coming on to my property behind the fence that is high enough where you cannot see the cans to inspect them … hmm … I see a trespassing charge in their future.
Or are they going to go through my garbage in the early hours of the morning before the garbage trucks come out and pick the stuff up?
Just curious ..