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...

Short-Lived Climate Pollutants: Organic Waste Methane Emissions Reduction (SB 1383) CalRecycle has recently published additional resources to non-local entities, including schools, with SB 1383 compliance. CLICK HERE to view tips and tools for non-local entity compliance. Effective on January 1, 2022 , schools and local education agencies will be required...

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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...