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...
Recycling has numerous positive impacts on our community and environment. OC Waste & Recycling deeply values diverting recyclable material from landfills so it can be reused or repurposed. Programs we currently have in place at our active landfill sites include composting, metal recycling and mattress recycling. The County of Orange...
Beginning January 1, 2022 ALL businesses and multi-family complexes located in the California must have both a recycling program and organics recycling program in place in order to comply with SB 1383. Please contact your commercial hauler if you do not have either of these programs in place. Your hauler...
SB 1383 requires that multifamily complexes of five units or more are required select one of the two following options: Subscribe to and participate in their jurisdiction’s organics curbside collection service Self-haul organic waste to a specified composting facility, community composting program, or other collection activity or program. Orange County...