Does CALGreen C&D diversion reporting cost extra?

No. Certified scale tickets and facility diversion documentation come with the container at the standard roll-off base rate. We do not treat CALGreen compliance paperwork as an add-on because your permit cannot close without it. Every load routed through a permitted materials recovery facility comes back with a weight ticket and the facility's published diversion rate applied.

How does land clearing debris count under CALGreen?

CALGreen Section 5.408.3 requires 100% of trees, stumps, rocks, vegetation and soils resulting from land clearing to be reused or recycled on nonresidential projects. This is a separate requirement from the 65% mixed C&D diversion and it is absolute, so those loads must be kept out of mixed C&D containers entirely. We route land-clearing debris to a green-material recycler and document each load separately on your report.

How fast do you file the final C&D diversion report to the jurisdiction?

We file to your jurisdiction's deadline — tell us the deadline at the start of the job so we can plan the closeout package. Rancho Cucamonga allows 60 days from final inspection. Norco forfeits the entire C&D deposit, up to $30,000, if the final diversion report is more than 30 days late. Riverside County requires Form C before final inspection. We keep a jurisdiction-specific checklist so nothing missed on our side costs you the deposit.

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CALGreen 65% · Riverside & San Bernardino counties

Your permit needs 65% diversion. We send the tickets that prove it.

Roll-off service for contractors who have to close out a CALGreen project or get a five-figure C&D deposit refunded — with certified scale tickets, facility diversion documentation and reporting filed to your jurisdiction's deadline. No charge for the paperwork.

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65% CALGreen minimum 60–79% typical roll-off diversion Certified scale tickets

Since January 1, 2026 the 2025 edition of CALGreen has been in force, and it requires covered projects to recycle or salvage a minimum of 65% of nonhazardous construction and demolition waste — Section 5.408.1 for nonresidential work and Section 4.408.1 for residential — or meet a local C&D ordinance, whichever is more stringent.

You already know that. The problem is never the percentage, it is the paperwork: your building department will not release a certificate of occupancy, and in several Inland Empire cities will not release a five-figure refundable deposit, until somebody hands them certified weight tickets and a facility diversion report. That somebody is your hauler.

What we send

Certified scale tickets from the receiving facility for every load, with the project address and your job number on them — not a summary we typed up.

Facility diversion documentation naming the receiving facility, so your plan checker can apply the diversion rate their jurisdiction publishes for that facility.

Tonnage broken out by material and by disposition — recycled, reused, salvaged, landfilled — reported in weight throughout, because CALGreen requires the calculation be by weight or volume but never a mix of both.

Two details that get deposits denied

City of origin. Rancho Cucamonga refuses a deposit refund outright if the weight tickets do not list Rancho Cucamonga as the city of origin, or if they did not come from the authorized collector or the facility named in the plan.

The clock. Rancho Cucamonga gives you 60 days from final inspection. Norco forfeits the entire deposit — up to $30,000 — if the final report is more than 30 days late. We file to your deadline, not ours.

The bin-size trap

San Bernardino County's own published table credits C&D placed in a small 1.5 to 6 cubic yard trash bin at 0% diversion — that material goes straight to the landfill and none of it counts for you.

The identical debris in a 10 to 40 yard roll-off routed to a mixed-C&D MRF is credited at 60% to 79% depending on the facility. Putting construction debris in the building's regular trash bin is the single most common way a project quietly fails its diversion requirement.

Diversion requirements in the cities we serve.

Local rules override CALGreen when they are stricter, and they vary far more than most contractors expect. Verify against your own permit conditions — ordinances change and this table is a starting point, not legal advice.

Jurisdiction	Diversion required	Plan approved before permit?	Refundable deposit
Corona	65% (CALGreen)	No separate city ordinance located	None found
Riverside (city)	65% by weight	Yes — Form 1 before permit, Form 2 before C of O	Not stated
Riverside County	65% by weight	Yes — Form B before permit, Form C before final	Not stated
Norco	100% inert + 65% other	Yes — no permit until the initial report is approved	0.75% of cost (1.5% demo), $30,000 cap
Jurupa Valley	65%	Filed through Green Halo after permit number issues	Yes — amount set by the city
Chino Hills	65%	Yes — permits withheld until the plan is approved	If collected, released on approval
Chino	70%	Form CD-1 / CD-2	Not stated
Ontario	65%	Yes — no demolition or building permit without approval	Not stated
Moreno Valley	50% local, 65% under CALGreen	Yes — approval is a condition precedent to permit	Not stated
Lake Elsinore	50% local, 65% under CALGreen	Yes — reviewed before grading or building permit	3% of cost or $10,000, whichever is greater
Murrieta	65% by weight	Yes — Part 1 before permit, Part 2 before C of O	Not stated
Temecula	65% by weight	Per TMC 8.36.640	Not stated
Yorba Linda	65%	Yes — permits withheld until forms are approved	Not stated
Perris	Per PMC Ch. 7.44	Confirm with the city	Confirm with the city
Eastvale	65% (CALGreen)	No separate city ordinance located	None found

Sources: 2025 CALGreen Sections 4.408 and 5.408 (California Building Standards Commission); city and county C&D ordinances and permit forms for each jurisdiction listed. Where a local figure sits below 65%, CALGreen governs on covered projects because the code applies whichever standard is more stringent.

Where your material actually goes.

Which facility receives the load determines the diversion percentage you get to claim, so we route deliberately rather than to whatever is closest.

Facility	City	Stream	Published diversion rate
Burrtec West Valley MRF	Fontana	Mixed C&D	79%
Burrtec Agua Mansa MRF	Riverside / Jurupa Valley	Mixed C&D, inerts, wood	74%
CR&R Inland Regional MRF	Perris	Mixed C&D, green waste	60%
Pomona Valley Transfer Station	Pomona	Mixed C&D	65%
Philadelphia Recycling Mine	Jurupa Valley	Clean concrete & asphalt	Inert recycling
Maitri Road Recycling	Corona	Inert materials	Inert recycling
Greenstone Materials	Perris	Clean concrete & asphalt	Inert recycling
Habitat for Humanity ReStore	Riverside, Temecula, Lake Elsinore	Salvage & reuse	Counts as reuse

Rates as published by San Bernardino County Public Works. Facility rates and permits change — we confirm the current rate for your specific project before we commit to a number in your waste management plan.

Clean loads and land clearing

Keep it clean and the math gets easy.

A load of nothing but concrete, asphalt, brick or rock goes to an inert recycler and is credited far higher than the same material mixed with wood, drywall and trash, which has to go to a transfer station as mixed waste. Some jurisdictions credit clean inert loads at 100%.

Our 10 yard lowboy includes 10 tons for dirt, concrete, brick, and rock, with a maximum capacity of 10 tons. Keeping these materials separate helps the receiving facility document the load. Confirm the material mix and documentation requirements with the office.

On land clearing, note that CALGreen Section 5.408.3 requires 100% of trees, stumps, rocks, vegetation and soils from land clearing be reused or recycled on nonresidential work — not 65%. Green and woody material has to be routed to organics processing, which is a different facility from your C&D bin.

LEED projects

If you are chasing LEED points.

The LEED v4.1 BD+C credit Construction and Demolition Waste Management is worth up to 2 points — broadly, one point at 50% diversion and two at 75%. LEED counts differently from CALGreen in three ways that catch teams out:

Excavated soil and land-clearing debris are excluded from the LEED calculation — the opposite of CALGreen 5.408.3
Alternative daily cover counts as waste, not diversion
Commingled loads must use the receiving facility's average recycling rate, and the certified-facility paths require a Recycling Certification Institute certified facility or approved equivalent

Tell us at the start that the project is pursuing LEED and which path, and we will route loads and format the reporting to match it. Confirm current thresholds with USGBC for your specific rating system.

One thing we will tell you before you ask us to bid. Several cities in the region — including Rancho Cucamonga, Chino and Fontana — award an exclusive solid waste franchise, which restricts who may place a roll-off container within city limits. If your project is in one of those cities, call us and we will tell you honestly whether we can serve it, refer you if we cannot, and look at whether the inert or clean-load portion can be handled separately. We would rather lose a bid than get your container red-tagged.

The part most contractors miss

You do not earn a diversion rate. You inherit your hauler's.

Plan checkers in the Inland Empire do not weigh what you actually recycled. They apply the diversion rate their jurisdiction publishes for the facility your load went to.

Which means the single decision that determines whether you clear 65% is made before a single nail is pulled: which facility the container is tipped at. Route the same debris to a transfer station with a low published rate and you fail on paper while having recycled exactly as much material.

We pick the receiving facility for the diversion credit, not for the shortest drive, and we tell you which one we are using before the container goes out. If your specification or your plan names a particular facility, we tip there.

See our compliance documents

Construction debris being loaded into a JD Roll Off Dumpsters container on a C&D job site

How it runs

Four steps, and only the first one needs you.

Tell us the city and the permit number

That is genuinely all we need to start. The jurisdiction determines your threshold, your deposit, your reporting deadline and which facility we should be tipping at.

We route every load deliberately

Mixed C&D to a materials recovery facility. Clean concrete, asphalt and inert loads kept separate, because a segregated inert load documents far higher than the same material buried in a mixed bin.

Tickets come back with your job number on them

Certified weight tickets from the scale, showing project address, city of origin and receiving facility — the three fields cities reject refunds over.

We file to your deadline

Tonnage broken out by material and disposition, reported in weight throughout, packaged the way your building department wants it. Before your clock runs out, not after.

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LEED projects

If you are chasing the LEED waste credit, tell us up front.

LEED v4.1 BD+C awards 1 point at 50% diversion and 2 points at 75% under Construction and Demolition Waste Management. The 75% threshold is the one that changes how we run your job — it usually means separating loads on site rather than sorting them downstream.

That is a conversation to have before the container is spotted, not when the reporting is due. Tell us the target and we will tell you honestly whether your debris mix can reach it.

Thresholds per the USGBC credit library. Verify the current requirement for your rating system and version.

Questions we get

C&D diversion, answered plainly.

What is a certified scale ticket and why does the CALGreen report need one?

A certified scale ticket is the weight receipt printed by a permitted materials recovery facility or transfer station when the load is weighed on a certified truck scale. CALGreen requires C&D quantities to be reported in weight, not volume, and the plan checker relies on the scale ticket plus the receiving facility's published diversion rate to credit your project. Volume estimates or self-reported cubic yards are typically rejected. Every JD Transport pull ends at a permitted facility and the scale ticket goes on your report the day the load closes.

Does the diversion reporting cost extra?

No. Certified scale tickets and facility diversion documentation come with the container at the standard $700 base rate. We do not treat compliance paperwork as an add-on, because you cannot close your permit without it.

Can you guarantee we hit 65%?

Nobody honest can guarantee a percentage, because the rate depends on what is actually in your debris and which rate your jurisdiction publishes for the receiving facility. What we can do is route your loads to the facility that documents highest for your material, keep clean inert loads separate, and give you the tickets to prove what happened. If your mix cannot get there, we will say so early rather than at closeout.

We used a small trash bin for demo debris. Does that count?

Generally no, and this is the most expensive mistake we see. San Bernardino County's published table credits C&D in a 1.5 to 6 cubic yard trash bin at 0% diversion. The identical debris in a roll-off routed to a materials recovery facility typically documents in the 60 to 79% range. Same material, same job, entirely different outcome on paper.

What about land clearing — trees, stumps, soil?

CALGreen Section 5.408.3 requires 100% of trees, stumps, rocks, vegetation and soils resulting from land clearing to be reused or recycled on nonresidential projects. That is a separate requirement from the 65% and it is absolute, so those loads need to be kept out of your mixed C&D containers entirely.

How fast do you turn around the final report?

We file to your jurisdiction's deadline. Tell us the date at the start of the job. Rancho Cucamonga allows 60 days from final inspection; Norco forfeits the entire deposit, up to $30,000, if the final report is more than 30 days late.

Do you serve every city in the Inland Empire?

Not all of them. Several cities have exclusive franchise agreements that bar an outside hauler from collecting C&D within city limits regardless of how good our diversion documentation is. Call with the project address and we will tell you straight away whether we can serve it or need to refer you.