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    Properties Affected by the Organics Diversion Requirements of the Universal Recycling Ordinance (URO)

    Metadata Updated: January 25, 2026

    Dataset of all properties affected by the Organics Diversion requirements of the Universal Recycling Ordinance. Affected food-permitted businesses are required to implement an Organics Diversion program to divert food waste from going to the landfill. Food-permitted businesses larger than 15,000 square feet were affected on Oct. 1, 2016, food-permitted businesses larger than 5,000 square feet were affected on Oct. 1, 2017, and all food-permitted businesses are required to reduce food waste starting Oct. 1, 2018.

    The URO supports Austin's Zero Waste goal by requiring affected property and business owners to ensure that tenants and employees have convenient access to waste diversion. For more on the Universal Recycling Ordinance visit www.austintexas.gov/uro.

    Austin Resource Recovery staff is available to answer questions – email commercialrecycling@austintexas.gov.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. Non-Federal: This dataset is covered by different Terms of Use than Data.gov. See Terms License: No license information was provided.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date January 25, 2026

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from City of Austin Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date January 25, 2026
    Publisher data.austintexas.gov
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://data.austintexas.gov/api/views/vpcu-8r94
    Data First Published 2023-08-21
    Data Last Modified 2026-01-25
    Category Locations and Maps
    Public Access Level public
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.austintexas.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id 30e418a3-8398-4d65-a07f-26cd3e9f99aa
    Harvest Source Id 3b6df381-c8b4-40be-954e-84552dfba592
    Harvest Source Title City of Austin Data.json
    Homepage URL https://data.austintexas.gov/d/vpcu-8r94
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash c9f8456a121c030f73416ea64a18973aac7926db1d9bc7d3ce0c5b14d13f8cf2
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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