Allied Waste
Customer Service
(916) 635-2500
City of Elk Grove
Integrated Waste
(916) 478-2289
City of Elk Grove
Business Recycling
(916) 627-3431
City of Elk Grove
Utilities Billing Division
(916) 478-3642
Integrated Waste
Previous Updates and News
- Holiday Trash Schedule
- 2010 Annual Free Dump Coupon
- Where to Dispose of Household Hazardous Waste (Brochure)
- Holiday Collection Schedule 2009/2010
- 2010 Recycling and Green Waste Calendar
- 2010 Neighborhood Cleanup Map
- Sharps Can Now Be Picked Up at Resident’s Front Doorstep
- E-waste Now Being Picked up Curbside at Resident’s Homes
- Learn to Compost!
- Donate Your Computer System
- Public Meeting Dates to Release Draft EIR for the Transfer Station Project
- New Solid Waste Rates for 2009/10
- Free Compost!
- Free Mulch!
- Elk Grove Recycling & Green Waste 2009 Calendar
- New Vendor Brings Education through Recycling
- Residential Street Sweeping Schedule
- Plastic Bag Recycling
- California Refund Value (CRV) Increases
- View City of Elk Grove Garbage Pick Up Day of Week Schedule
- New Regulation
| Holiday Trash Schedule |
Just a friendly reminder about your trash service. If your trash service day falls on Friday (12/25) and Friday (1/01), your service day will be moved to Saturday (12/26) and Saturday (1/02). For more information, please call 478.2289.
| Limited Hours at HHW Facility on Saturday, Dec. 12 |
Please not that the Household Hazardous Waste Facility at 8491 Fruitridge Road will be closing at 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, December 12. Normal hours will resume on Tuesday, December 15th.
For more information about this and other HHW facilities, please call 916-478-2289.
| Sharps Can Now Be Picked Up at Resident’s Front Doorstep |
As of September 1, 2008, it is illegal to dispose of sharps waste in trash or recycling containers (Section 118286 of the California Health and Safety Code). Sharps are defined as hypodermic needles, pen needles, lancets, and other devices that are used to penetrate the skin for the delivery of medications derived from a household.
To accommodate the residents of Elk Grove, Allied Waste is now picking up approved sharps containers from the front doorstep of resident’s home after they have called to make an appointment.
To make an appointment, call Allied Waste at 635-2500, to pick up the approved sharps container, free of charge, from your front doorstep between the hours of 6 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Keep this in mind for sharps pick-up:
- Sharps must be in an approved container, which can be purchased from your doctor’s office or local pharmacy.
- Sharps must be completely enclosed in container. They cannot spill out of the top.
- Container must be labeled as “sharps container”.
- Container must be sealed and closed. It cannot be broken, split or damaged.
- The container must not contain any prescription drugs.
Sharps container will not be picked up without an appointment.
| E-waste Now Being Picked up Curbside at Resident’s Homes |
Call Allied Waste at 635-2500 to make an appointment to pick up your e-waste, free of charge, curbside on your regular service day. Allowable items to be discarded include LCD and Plasma televisions, computers*, computer monitors, telephones, answering machines, radios, stereo equipment, tape players/recorders, DVD, CD and videocassette players/recorders, copiers and fax machines.
E-waste will not be picked up by Allied Waste without an appointment.
*Please remove all data from your computer hard drive. Allied Waste is not responsible for any remaining data left on your computer system.
| Donate Your Computer System |
If you have a complete computer system that is in good working condition, the City of Elk Grove will donate it to a local school in need. It must have all the components, including the monitor, hard drive, mouse and keyboard.* To donate your system, please contact Kim Perry at 478-2289 or kperry@elkgrovecity.org.
*Please make sure all personal data is removed from the hard drive. The City of Elk Grove and the school receiving the computer system will not be responsible for any remaining data.
| Public Meeting Dates to Release Draft EIR for the Transfer Station Project |
The General Public, Commercial Haulers and the Solid Waste Advisory Committee (SWAC) members are invited to attend one of two site tours of the identified project sites outlined in the DRAFT Solid Waste Transfer Station/ Household Hazardous Waste Facility Environmental Impact Report (DEIR), made available on July 1, 2009. The meeting dates and times are:
- Tuesday, July 7, 2009 at 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
- Tuesday, July 14, 2009 at 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Meeting locations: City Council Chambers, 8400 Laguna Palms Way, Elk Grove, CA, 95758.
Questions? Call Cedar Kehoe at 478-3634.
| New Solid Waste Rates for 2009/10 |
Notice of Proposed Increase to Solid Waste Service Rates and Public Hearing
| New Vendor Brings Education through Recycling |
reCREATE:
Providing environmental education through creative reuse. Rolling reCREATE brings a truck full of treasure (once known as trash) to your school for a state standards-based lesson in environmental conservation, and hands-on creativity.
reCREATE:
Where creativity and conservation meet. Visit www.recreate.org for more information.
| Plastic Bag Recycling |
A new law, AB 2449, requires drugstores and grocery stores of at least 10,000 square feet to offer at-store recycling programs for plastic bags.
Although this law took effect July 1, 2007, many Elk Grove stores already collected and recycled plastic bags from their customers. As an alternative to plastic bags, some stores now have reusable bags available for purchase, generally made of light-weight, washable material for convenience. These reusable bags usually come with money-saving incentives, as many stores offer a discount each time a customer uses a reusable bag in lieu of a paper or plastic carryout bag.
Problems Caused By Plastic Bags
- Plastic bags have long been a source of litter and debris, often getting caught on fences and in trees.
- Sewers and waterways get clogged with loose plastic bags.
- Plastics bags can take hundreds of years to break down naturally, releasing harmful materials into the soil and water.
- Animals, especially marine wildlife, get hurt or die from ingesting or being entangled in plastic bags.
With the passing of AB 2449, Elk Grove residents can rid their closets of stored-away plastic bags and reduce the amount of trash in landfills.
So on your next trip to the grocery store, don’t forget your shopping list and plastic bags to recycle!
| California Redemption Value (CRV) Increases |
Beverage Container Size 2004-2006
CRV Rate2007
CRV RateLess than 24 Ounces 4¢ 5¢ 24 Ounces and Larger 8¢ 10¢
California Refund Value (CRV) has increased for 2007! When taking empty CRV bottles and cans to recycling centers consumers now receive 5¢ for containers less than 24 ounces and 10¢ for containers 24 ounces and larger, an increase from the previous rate of 4¢ and 8¢.
CRV is the amount paid by consumers at the checkout stand and paid back to consumers when they recycle eligible aluminum, plastic, glass, and bi-metal beverage containers at a certified recycling center.
In 2004, Californians averaged 12 billion recycled CRV containers per year. And just last year, that number rose to an all time record of 13.2 billion.* Help continue this upward trend by recycling and redeeming your empty beverage containers at one of Elk Grove’s CRV Centers.
Please click here for hours and locations of local CRV Centers.
Information provided by the California Department of Conservation website.
| View City of Elk Grove Garbage Pick Schedule |
Click here to view the "City of Elk Grove Garbage Pick Schedule" in a larger view.
| New Regulation |
February 3, 2006
The California Department of Toxics Substances Control (DTSC) on January 10th, 2006, decided to classify an array of consumer electronic products as hazardous and prohibiting their disposal in household trash effective February 8, 2006.
Devices covered by the DTSC decision include:
- Waste Batteries
- Waste Mercury Thermostats
- Waste Fluorescent Tubes or Lamps
- Waste Electronic devices:
-computers/printers
-VCRs
-Answering machines
-cell phones
-microwaves
-telephones
-radios
They estimate: 500,000 tons of toxic electronics are disposed in California annually.
Infrastructure for collecting and recycling electronic wastes was established by recent legislation SB 20 that provided the basic infrastructure and some funding for some e-waste recycling. SB 20 established a recovery and recycling program on computer monitors, televisions, and lap top computers, only. That program places a $6-$10 Advance Recycling Fee on the sale of those devices, with funds used to provide incentives for recyclers to establish free and convenient recycling opportunities. All of these new restrictions are not currently covered by the legislation and no funding is currently available to fund programs to collection and recycle this new list of restricted materials.
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