Arcata Ending Free Green Waste Drop Offs August 1
This is a press release from the City of Arcata:
As of Friday, August 1, the City of Arcata is ending no-cost green waste drop- offs for Recology Arcata customers at Morris Logging.
The no-cost green waste drop-off program has been successful at encouraging diversion of compostable green waste away from the landfill. However, due to significant cost increases to process green waste locally, the City has not been able to sustainably fund this no-cost program. A significant portion of the City’s solid waste franchise fee revenue has been funding Arcata residents’ free green waste drop-offs, reducing the amount of revenue available to fund essential compliance with state requirements and other zero waste programs.
Arcata residents will be able to continue to take green waste to Morris Logging (or to Humboldt Sanitation in McKinleyville or Humboldt Waste Management Authority in Eureka) and pay for its composting. The City also encourages Arcata residents to take advantage of the low cost, optional curbside green waste collection through Recology Arcata. More information for this program is available at recology.com/recology- arcata/your-carts/.
The City of Arcata, along with other local jurisdictions throughout Humboldt County, continues to advance compliance with SB 1383, the California state law focused on reducing organic waste into landfills. The City anticipates rolling out mandatory curbside organics collection in late 2026 which will provide another outlet for green waste composting as well as food waste. For further information about SB 1383, please
visit cityofarcata.org/sb1383.
For further information about composting and green waste resources, please visit cityofarcata.org/294/Composting-Green-Waste-Resources or contact the Environmental Services Department at (707) 822-8184.
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Wow, so sorry to hear, wish our new 10% local tax helped back this longtime practical subsidy. Can’t imagine giant piles of green waste hogging the curbs awaiting pickup by Recology in late 2026.
There will be mandatory green cans for city residents to put green waste into for pickup,Noone is going to pick up huge piles of greenwaste ,if it don’t fit in your green can you have to haul it to a location yourself and pay to dispose of it like everybody else in the county.If you generated a huge pile of metal,recycling, or garbage you wouldn’t leave huge piles of that in front of your house.Or would you?
Large cuttings will likely be dumped in whatever greenbelt area that’s convenient. Or left to rot in place. Which is what the “rest of the county” already does.
Burn baby burn🔥
The rates for dropping off green waste are prohibitively expensive. Expect much more burning but also dumping along county roads and such…Unfortunately much green waste is ivy, Himalayan black berry and other non-native invasive and so when dumped along roads they will spread. But yeah Arcata- you sure do care….land of yuppies
The offputting thing is that the State wants green waste bins added to the two I already drag hundreds of feet out to the road. I have always composted everything compostable. But a lot of people don’t and the free for all with wildlife rooting through the bins will be a nightmare.
These bins look on this site to be as big as the recycling and who generates that much green waste every week?
https://calrecycle.ca.gov/Organics/SLCP/collection/
Put your greenwaste in the garbage and/or recycling bins….who’s going to know? The garbage police…..coming soon to your community thanks to yet another new law….sbimadumbass.
Maybe arcata can fly a greenwaste flag to show their concern. Or work to repeal sb1383. Our idiot politicians pass all these well meaning “laws” and we all get to pay for them. There’re doing no one any good. Maybe the morons who vote for these laws should have to pay for them?
Nature likes this solution, she asked if it could scale up to cover the whole of the works of man.
Put your neighbor in the greenwaste bin?
No mine was more of the left to rot in place sort of solution, I think it scales well.
No, the rest of the county does not do that.
You’ve got to work on your negativity.
If you put some effort into it, it’s possible to find a way to frame everything in the most negative way possible.
Your expectation that females should phrase everything in an over-wordy, flowery sing-song is what is negative. Carry on with that mansplaining. I speak plainly and clearly, particularly to over-generalizations such as we all break dumping laws. No, we all don’t.
Whoa. Are you barking up the wrong tree.
But while not everyone does, enough do with ordinary trash much less green waste, that looking over the edge of many turnouts going up into the hills from towns look like a trashslide in a landfill.
So what is wasteful about letting it rot where it is? Wasted value of a transient perceived nature? Property value? Lost tax revenue? Does our mother care where the dead rot? I think not. Her host feasts where it finds plenty, table manners are for the gentry.
So you hold council as if u were not female at all? Of what value is a gift made poorly? They teach u to say its the thought thay counts when your gift disappoints, I won’t waste my words.
If you learn of the alchemy of suffering you may find it becomes effortless, but the key here is that holding up the dark mirror is, in fact, service; maybe the greatest of this generations work is such as this. When the cognitive dissonance spreads systemically with the aid of algorithmically precise digital subterfuge the only medicine is the dark mirror. Shout out to the society of heyoka, i see u, as I too walk backwards.
Hugelkultur is your friend. Combined with dry farming, it makes perfect sense to compost green waste and forgo wasting water.
It is and I have a 30×30 bed built like that. Go a foot deep and it teems with all sorts of wildlife like gartersnakes, alligator lizards, toughskin salamanders, etc and end less insects. But there is a limit to the land most people can devote to it. And no limit as to the green waste redwoods create.
Roughskin salamanderd.
Newt? 🙂
Yes, but then all newts are salamanders and I can’t tell a California newt from a roughskin newt anyway. I just used to call all of them fire-belly salamanders which i guess has now been made wrong by the pet trade from China too.
Turned me into a Newt !
“She turned you into a newt?!”
“Well…I got better”
There is a limit to the agrarians quest to subjugate nature, rock from space beats banker’s paperwork and Shepard’s shears. Our mother will devote entire continents to the reclamation. The law has been broken.
What does the administration of our assets by the gentry get us? How did this town allow itself to be run in to the ground? Has any one considered the nature of ideological faith? What it means to trust a system and the individuals who work in it? Why there is no such ethos as trust the science within the actual scientific community? Why trust but verify is a thing? How did such as us end up allowing our thoughts to somehow all be unified in trusting the good nature of unknown outside elements? Humanity is going to enter a regressed phase of tribalism I fear, like missing a turn a few back and having to back track all the way to the place u started because u are lost now. Those who thought that reductionist logic and other people’s maths was going to guide them to a place of enlightenment…. Well, I have a bad feeling about this.
That’s deep.
They pick it up from the street in San jose.
The 70s are calling
The transfer station run by the Del Norte Solid Waste Management in Crescent City has a green waste area where one can take non-invasive plants. A 30 gallon can full of green waste costs about $2.
Given the governments insistence of extorting money from the populace, “free” waste disposal is one service that would have a net positive impact for everyone by keeping garbage from being dumped hither and yawn. Waste less on administrative garbage and put that money to real garbage.
Ullr for mayor.
Dang auto correct. But you know what I meant. Pretentious local politicians wanting to pontificate on the burning issues of our times should all fall into the sinkholes they let slide because “there are bigger issues. “
Well when u are on the wrong side of natural history and it becomes obvious you all the sudden want to get real local and in the now with your focus, it’s just influencer grift meets small town clown politics, just the shame they have from the blood on their tie dyes they can’t get out.
I don’t often say this as I try to read what people respond ( except of course the one who always post what he call sarcasm) but what in the world did you say?
Im just a conduit, i don’t think I said anything today but a few trite pleasantries while I conducted commerce with the profane.
Free!
( limited time only, subject to change and after initial introductory period a monthly fee of whatever we can take will slowly be cranked up until you have to fight us again)
thank you for understanding,
the management
Funny part is they will stop subsidizing this so they can spend the money instead on meetings, studies, prognostications and such…hey maybe even vacation and pension benefits! That is your “progressive” Arcata government!!
Wow! Going green isn’t sustainable, even in Arcata! Who knew! The progressives have, once again, failed! Nothing shocking about that!
What a dumb move by the city. The whole county needs to designate a green waste area. Us folks in the incorporated areas have been being robbed by Humboldt waste because despite very expensive garbage rates we still have to pay for green waste. What a scam and money maker. How else can we screw the locals who are trying to keep their properties up. This is going to result in more dumping of invasive species and less upkeep in town plus piles of dry debris just waiting to burn in residential areas.