Body To celebrate 18 years of community fun, the 2019 Irvine Global Village Festival will be one of the largest ones yet! The now two-day festival incorporates the best of Irvine's historic fall festival to offer more food, art, and music throughout an entire weekend at the Great Park. OC Waste...

Body Orange County, CA (October 5, 2022) – OC Waste & Recycling (OCWR) receives the US Composting Council’s “Seal of Testing Assurance” at Frank R. Bowerman landfill’s Bee Canyon Greenery and Prima Deshecha’s landfill’s Capistrano Greenery. This certification signifies that OCWR’s compost offers the highest standards of compost quality, meeting all...

Body SANTA ANA, CA (October 24, 2022) – OC Waste & Recycling (OCWR) announces a county-wide Compost Giveaway at Bee Canyon Greenery (Frank R. Bowerman Landfill), Valencia Greenery (Olinda Alpha Landfill) and Capistrano Greenery (Prima Deshecha Landfill). Orange County residents can pick up free compost on Saturday, November 5, between 9...

Body Every Spring we turn our clocks forward for Daylight Savings but why not look forward to ensuring a hazard-free household by checking our smoke and carbon monoxide detectors as well? Regularly checking both devices can help create a safe household. You can make sure your smoke and carbon monoxide detectors...

Body Giveaway Places Quality Organic Compost Material into the Community Orange County, CA (March 16, 2023) – OC Waste & Recycling (OCWR) announces a County-wide Compost Giveaway at Bee Canyon Greenery (Frank R. Bowerman Landfill), Valencia Greenery (Olinda Alpha Landfill) and Capistrano Greenery (Prima Deshecha Landfill). Orange County residents can pick...

Body GET THE SCOOP ON VERMICOMPOSTING WITH OC WASTE & RECYCLING, OC PUBLIC LIBRARIES and DISCOVERY CUBE OC Orange County, CA (April 5, 2023) – In celebration of Earth Month, OC Waste & Recycling (OCWR), OC Public Libraries (OCPL) and Discovery Cube OC (DCOC) will partner for County-wide Earth Day events to...

Body ORANGE COUNTY, CA (May 12, 2023) – OC Waste & Recycling (OCWR) is now accepting smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors from Orange County residents for free recycling at all four County-operated Household Hazardous Waste Collection Centers (HHWCC). The safe disposal of household smoke detectors is important, but often limited...

Body ORANGE COUNTY, CA (May 11, 2022) – OC Waste & Recycling (OCWR) receives $3 million from CalRecycle, the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery. The grant award will enable OCWR to expand composting operations at the Frank R. Bowerman (FRB) Landfill in Irvine. "OCWR is developing composting operations co-located...

Body OC Waste & Recycling (OCWR) has received two 2023 Achievement Awards from the National Association of Counties (NACo) for innovative initiatives including a regional community compost program for the Orange County, and a smart misting system at the Prima Deshecha Landfill (PDL) in San Juan Capistrano. Both honors acknowledge excellence...

Body Record rain this year has been a good thing! While your gardens and fruit trees might have benefited, did you know the extra wet weather might have delayed the arrival of some of your fruit and veggies? A simple fix is to add compost and mulch to your garden that will...