{"id":29709,"date":"2026-03-13T11:36:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T15:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/?post_type=article&p=29709"},"modified":"2026-03-16T10:06:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T14:06:04","slug":"washington-organics-diversion","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/ilsr.org\/es\/article\/composting-for-community\/washington-organics-diversion","title":{"rendered":"Washington \u2013 Organics Diversion and Funding"},"template":"","class_list":["post-29709","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry","article_type-state-policy","initiatives-composting-for-community","topics-climate-change","topics-infrastructure","topics-on-farm-composting","topics-recycling","topics-zero-waste","impact_areas-climate-and-environmental-justice","impact_areas-food-security","authors-diana-harden"],"acf":{"details":{"featured_image":"","background_color":"tan","article_type":[36],"initiative":15,"display_event_fields":false,"start_date":null,"end_date":null,"start_time":null,"end_time":null,"time_zone":"America\/New_York","virtual_event":false,"location":"","topics":[62,112,89,99,121],"impact_areas":[16,18],"abstract":"In 2022, Washington State passed House Bill 1799, which updated several provisions related to organic materials disposal and management. The bill also addresses compost purchasing, siting of processing facilities, and food recovery. Through this legislation, Washington established new funding and financial incentives, the Center for Sustainable Food Management (housed within the Department of Ecology), business waste management regulations, and new regulations for organic material facilities to ensure sufficient capacity to process organics. In the following years, two bills, HB 2301 (2024) and HB 1497 (2025) built upon the initial legislation to provide funding opportunities to communities and strengthen previously established regulations by including requirements to help meet the goals established in 2022.","authors_tax":[695]},"sidebar":{"title":"\u00cdndice"},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"In 2022, Washington State passed <\/span>House Bill 1799<\/span><\/a>, which updated several provisions related to organic materials disposal and management. <\/span>The bill also addresses compost purchasing, siting of processing facilities, and food recovery.<\/span> Through this legislation, Washington established new funding and financial incentives, the <\/span>Center for Sustainable Food Management<\/span><\/a> (housed within the Department of Ecology), business waste management regulations, and new regulations for organic material facilities to ensure sufficient capacity to process organics. Two targets were set with the enactment of the legislation: one, to reduce organic waste disposal by 75% by 2030, and two, to increase the volume of edible food recovery by 20% by 2025:<\/span>\r\n
\u201c<\/b>(1)(a) The state establishes a goal for the landfill disposal of organic materials at a level representing a 75 percent reduction by 2030 in the statewide disposal of organic material waste, relative to 2015 levels. (b) The state establishes a goal that no less than 20 percent of the volume of edible food that was disposed of as of 2015 be recovered for human consumption by 2025.\u201d<\/span><\/blockquote>\r\n

\u2014 Revised Code of Washington \u00a7 70A.205.007<\/span><\/a><\/p>\r\nIn the following years, two bills, <\/span>HB 2301<\/span><\/a> (2024) and <\/span>HB 1497<\/span><\/a> (2025) built upon the initial legislation to provide funding opportunities to communities and strengthen previously established regulations by including requirements to help meet the goals established in 2022. HB 2301 established grant programs through the Center for Sustainable Food Management to support composting infrastructure and projects, and required businesses producing 96 gallons or more of organics per week to arrange for organic materials management services. Additionally, HB 1497 standardized container requirements and expanded organics collection requirements to certain multifamily residential buildings.<\/span>\r\n

Organics Diversion Requirements<\/span><\/h2>\r\nHB 1799<\/span> established organics diversion targets for both the commercial and residential sectors. Starting January 1, 2024, businesses generating 8 cubic yards or more of organics waste per week were required to set up organic waste collection services, with the threshold lowering to 4 cubic yards or more starting January 1, 2025.\u00a0<\/span>\r\n\r\nWhen did the business requirements established in HB 1799 go into effect?[footnote]Navigating the New Organics Management Law Business Requirements<\/span>, Cedar Grove, 2023, https:\/\/www.mountvernonwa.gov\/DocumentCenter\/View\/16393\/Navigating-OrgMgmtLaw-CG_2023-1<\/span><\/span>[\/footnote]<\/span>","":null,"settings":""}},{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_basic_html","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_basic_html":{"heading":"","code":"