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The holiday season brings so much joy and cheerful spirits to most of us, it also brings along an additional large amount of waste. Did you know that we send 25% more trash to landfills during the holiday season than any other time of the year in the United States...
Your friends at OC Waste & Recycling offer a suggestion for perhaps one of the easiest new year’s resolutions ever: Properly dispose of batteries! If you do, you will increase your environmental stewardship and help prevent waste fires. We have all heard the slogan, “Reduce, reuse, recycle.” Three simple acts...
For those of us who enjoy spending our time in and around the ocean, a common site that usually accompanies those blue skies and majestic sunsets, unfortunately, can be the unsightly waste products that we typically see: that water bottle carelessly tossed on the sand, the plastic red cup floating...
OC Waste and Recycling would like to remind our residents, that the Household Hazardous Waste Collection Centers, (HHWs), are required to close during rain events. This may include intermittent closures during regular operating hours, as centers may reopen when weather permits. Fortunately, those days are often few and far between...
OC Waste & Recycling: Service Update Orange County Landfills and Household Hazardous Waste Centers remain open during normal business hours. Materials Exchange Programs (MEPs) will reopen Saturday, June 27 for regular business hours. Follow us @OCWaste on social media for up-to -date changes and information. We understand that many people...
Celebrate National Pizza Day this year by not only enjoying a slice of your favorite pizza, but also recycling the box in came in! The debate as to whether pizza boxes can be recycled, is as time honored as choosing your favorite toppings to adorn your pizza. A recent study...
Adapting to ever changing times, TerraCycle and Anheuser-Busch have partnered together to promote the recycling of personal protective equipment or PPE as it is commonly known. In 2020, Johns Hopkins University estimated that 45 million masks were worn each day as a result from COVID 19. Unfortunately, our very own...
Random fact: Did you know that Americans roughly use 500 million disposal straws each day? Additionally, plastic straws are one of the top items found during litter clean-ups. Seeking to cut down on the amount of straws from entering our oceans, The Coral Keepers designated the fourth Friday in February...
With an attempt to bolster California’s dwindling recycle program, the state’s recycling commission recently offered 19 policy recommendations which would encourage Californians to become better educated with recycling, while aiming to reach the goal of consistently streamlining unwanted waste out of landfills. Going as far back as 1989, California legislation...