Body 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...

Body 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...

Body 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...

Body 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...

Body The following is a partial list of disposal companies to assist with the proper disposal of waste materials. A more comprehensive list of companies that dispose of waste can be found in the Business-to-Business telephone directory under the listing “Waste Disposal – Hazardous” or by searching on the internet by...

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Body 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...

Body 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...

Body The Recycling Market Development Zone (RMDZ) program combines recycling with economic development to fuel new businesses, expand existing ones, create jobs, and keep unnecessary waste out of landfills. The program provides attractive loans , technical assistance , and free product marketing to local businesses that use materials from the waste...