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What has the City spent on Private Sector Recycling Programs?

$22.4M across 211 payments, July 24, 2017 to August 24, 2026 — 33 purchase orders and 14 vendors, run by Non-departmental.

Checkbook LA · Through Sep 9, 2026

As published: PRIVATE SECTOR RECYCLING PROGRAMS

Spans more than one contract

This budget line has run for 10 fiscal years across 33 separate purchase orders. A single payment in the register shows none of that — the commitment outlives any one order, and the orders are how it gets renewed.

$22.4MTotal spent
33Purchase orders
14Vendors
47%Largest vendor's share

Spending by fiscal year

FY2017-18
$11.6M
FY2018-19
$5.0M
FY2019-20
$2.2M
FY2020-21
$711K
FY2021-22
$211K
FY2022-23
$113K
FY2023-24
$413K
FY2024-25
$335K
FY2025-26
$1.7M
FY2026-27 *
$102K

* FY2026-27 is still in progress — not a full year. Same point of FY2025-26 (payments dated through Sep 9, 2025): $340K.

Who was paid

42 payments

53 payments

9 payments

14 payments

6 payments

4 payments

2 payments

27 payments

Under which orders

13 payments · December 26, 2017 to April 23, 2019

17 payments · December 5, 2017 to January 19, 2022

7 payments · January 22, 2019 to May 1, 2019

14 payments · September 4, 2025 to August 24, 2026

17 payments · November 20, 2019 to January 27, 2023

5 payments · August 21, 2017 to December 26, 2017

7 payments · August 1, 2017 to May 23, 2018

3 payments · July 24, 2017 to September 29, 2017

6 payments · September 27, 2017 to April 9, 2018

4 payments · July 31, 2017 to November 2, 2017

5 payments · November 2, 2017 to April 20, 2018

6 payments · October 3, 2018 to November 8, 2019

16 payments · August 11, 2017 to February 25, 2019

4 payments · July 31, 2020 to January 19, 2022

8 payments · September 20, 2023 to January 15, 2025

6 payments · August 14, 2023 to December 2, 2024

5 payments · October 22, 2025 to May 27, 2026

1 payment · October 4, 2017 to October 4, 2017

6 payments · August 7, 2018 to August 7, 2018

7 payments · April 22, 2019 to April 22, 2019

1 payment · May 3, 2018 to May 3, 2018

4 payments · February 15, 2023 to January 17, 2024

1 payment · September 8, 2017 to September 8, 2017

12 payments · October 6, 2017 to February 12, 2020

1 payment · November 10, 2020 to November 10, 2020

1 payment · December 30, 2022 to December 30, 2022

1 payment · January 28, 2019 to January 28, 2019

1 payment · November 8, 2017 to November 8, 2017

16 payments · July 17, 2018 to July 17, 2018

11 payments · October 23, 2017 to October 23, 2017

1 payment · November 7, 2017 to November 7, 2017

1 payment · March 21, 2018 to March 21, 2018

2 payments · June 9, 2020 to July 21, 2020

Sources

LA Controller, Checkbook LA (pggv-e4fn), totalled nightly. Grouped by account_name, the budget line a payment is booked against — populated on every row, and the most useful field for understanding what a payment actually bought. Back to the checkbook.