Your garden waste bin is not the place to dispose of it. "Animal waste poses a health and safety risk. It can contain harmful diseases that present risks to plants, animals, and humans.

SB 1383 is the 2016 law that bans from landfills the organic waste that has been generating 20 percent of California’s climate change-inducing methane (Learn more at CalRecycle.ca.gov).

Some cities have been recycling their green waste for years. San Francisco blazed the trail in 1996 when it turned excess food from the city’s wholesale produce market into compost.

I won’t need to worry about this new law because I already compost kitchen wastes, spent flowers and garden plants, leaves and lawn clippings. I think that sending away such nutrient-rich ...