This is somewhat pertinent to my interests. As an avid gardener I maintain a compost heap (homemade is several times better than anything you can buy at the hardware store) and I'm cautiously in favor of removing organic wastes from the streams going into landfills. From what I've read in a few studies, landfills really don't biodegrade due to a combination of poisonous chemicals from the inorganic waste and massive compaction preventing oxygen from getting in and sustaining bacteria. So reducing organic waste and recycling it into compost can only be a good thing.
On the other hand, it's California so screwing it up seems likely. On the other hand, those steep fines look immensely abusable to me and just the thing for a corrupt city head to hit some person they don't like for throwing away a single banana peel. The gripping hand is, unless you're fairly careful about policing your compost nasty chemicals from other waste can get in there and I wouldn't trust a system that combines everybody in LA's waste into one source not to have heroin needles, used condoms, paint cans, and all matter of other horrible things contaminating it.
Starting in 2022, all California jurisdictions are required to provide organic waste collection services to residents and businesses.
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