Solid Waste Management
Provide solid waste management services to Sunnyvale residents, businesses and institutions. Key services include collection of: garbage from residents, businesses and institutions, recyclables from single-family and multi-family residences, City facilities and schools, and yard trimmings from single-family residences. Reduce the waste stream through recycling and waste reduction information, outreach, and services and household hazardous waste collection events. Provide environmental quality monitoring, management and regulatory compliance activities at the closed Sunnyvale Landfill.
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SMaRT Station
Operate the Sunnyvale Materials Recovery and Transfer (SMaRT®) Station under an MOU among the cities of Mountain View, Palo Alto and Sunnyvale. The SMaRT Station MOU is coordinated with each city’s landfill disposal agreement with Waste Management, Inc. Key services provided include, receipt of garbage from the three cities, diversion of recyclable materials by the materials recovery facility (MRF) and transfer of the unrecycled portion to Kirby Canyon Landfill in San Jose, receipt, processing and marketing of compostable yard trimmings, receipt of recyclables from Mountain View and Sunnyvale (Palo Alto has its recyclables processed elsewhere), operation of a drop-off / buyback recycling center for the public, acceptance of “Universal Waste,” including household batteries, used automotive fluids and batteries, electronic waste, fluorescent bulbs and tubes and medical “sharps.”
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