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Garbage:
New or changes to accounts
On-Call collection appointments
(408) 730-7400

Missed Collections
(408) 565-9900

Recycling:
Questions about recycling?
(408) 730-7262

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How to recycle . . . A-Z Recycling

The following listings will help you find resources to recycle just about anything. If it's not on our list, call us at (408) 730-7262 and we will help you find a place to recycle the item. An alternative recycling resource is available at the Center for the Development of Recycling (CDR).

We invite our website visitors to help keep our A-Z Recycling list updated. If you find a company that is no longer providing listed services or has new contact information please let us know so we can change the listing.

If you wish to donate items for reuse and keep them out of the landfill, go to Reuse for a list of links to online reuse organizations or view our Reuse Resources list to find companies and charitable organizations that will accept a variety of items.

A

Aerosol cans 
Air conditioner

Alarms (smoke)
Aluminum cans
Aluminum foil

Aluminum scrap
Ammunition
Animals
 (deceased) Answering machine
Antifreeze
Appliances
 (large/ small)
Asbestos
Asphalt
Athletic Shoes

Audio cassettes
Auto batteries

Auto body (automobile)          Auto fluids
Auto glass
 (safety) Auto parts

B

Ballast (for lights)
Bamboo 
Bathtub (construction)
Batteries
Beverage containers
Bi-metal containers 
Bicycle (sports)

Blueprints
Boat
Books
Branches
Brick
Brown bags
Bubble wrap
Bullets
(ammunition)

 

C

Cactus
Camcorder
Camera (digital)
Camper shell
Car
Carbon dioxide tank
Car Seats
Cardboard
 (corrugated) Carpet
Catalogs
CD (jewel) cases

Cell phones
Cement
Clothes hangers

Clothing/cloth
Compact disks
Computer equipment
Computer monitors
Concrete
Construction & demolition debris
Cooking oil
Copiers                        Corks
(natural)
Couch

D

Deceased animals
Digital camera
Dirt
Diskettes
Donations
Drum (55-gallon)
Drywall

DVD player

 

 

 

 

 

 

E

Electronics
Envelopes
Envelopes(padded)
Explosives
Eyeglasses


F

Fax machines
Fire extinguisher
Firearms
Firewood
Fireworks
Floppy disks
Fluorescent bulbs/ tubes
Food scraps
Fruit (excess from trees)
Furniture

G

Gasoline 
Glass (bottles and jars)
Glass (large quantities)
Glass
 (safety/auto)
Glass (window)
Grease/ tallow
Greeting cards

Guns (firearms)

H

Hardcover books
Hazardous waste
Helium tanks
High-intensity Discharge (HID) bulbs

Hot water heater
HVAC system
Hypodermic needles

I

Ivy/Iceplant
Inkjet/ laser cartridges


J
Junk mail - Opt-out
Junk mail
-recycle







 

K

Kerosene
Keyboard

L

Lancets
(sharps)
Landscape waste (yard waste)
Laptops
Lawnmower
Liquid Crystal Display (LCD)-TV

LCD-computer monitor
Leaves                      Lightbulbs
Lighter fluid
Lithium batteries
Lumber
(wood)

M

Magazines 
Mattresses
Medications
Mercury-containing devices
Metal (scrap)
Microwave

(appliances-small)
Mirror
Mixed paper
Monitors (computer)
Motor oil

Mouse (computer)
Musical instruments




N

Needles
(sharps)
Neon lights/signs
Newspaper
Ni-Cad batteries
NiMH batteries















O

Oil (cooking/ grease)
Oil (motor oil)/Oil filters
Oxygen tank















P

Packing peanuts
Paint
Palm fronds
Pallets (wood) 
Paper

Paper shredding service
Paperback books
Personal Digital Assistant
(PDA)
Pesticides
Pharmaceuticals
Phone books 
Photos
Photocopiers
Plasma TVs

Plastics #1-#7 (beverage containers/bottles & jars, tubs & cups)
Plastic #6/ polystyrene

Plastic #7/polyurethane (soft foam)
Plastic bags
Plastic film
Plastic garden pots
Plastics – other

Polystyrene/ plastic #6
Popcorn ceilings

Prescription medications
Printer
Propane tanks

Q











R

Radio
Railroad ties
Rechargeable batteries
Rear-projection TVs
Refrigerator 
Reuse
Rocks                  Rubber balls

Rugs


 

S

Safety glass
Scrap metal
Sharps (needles/ lancets)
Sheet rock (drywall)
Shoes 
Silicon wafers 
Sink
Smoke detectors
Solar panels

Space heater
Stereo

Styrofoam® (plastic #6)
Surfboards
Syringes
(if empty, throw in garbage)


T

Tallow/grease
Telephone
Telephone books
Televisions

Textbooks
Textiles (clothing/cloth)
Thermometers
(mercury)
Thermostats
Tires
Toilet
Toner cartridges

Trailer
Transparencies & flip-frame

Treated wood 
Tree stump/trimmings
Trophies
Tyvek® envelopes

U

V

VCRs
Video cassettes




W

Washer/ dryer (appliances)
Water heater 
Water filter

Window glass
Windshield (auto)
Wire hangers
Wood
(lumber, scrap)

X

Y

Yard trimmings

Yucca plant

Z

 

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