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Collection Services »
Basic Collection Service »
Mixed Recycling Collection
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Mixed Recycling Collection
Sacramento County residents are provided with every-other-week mixed
recycling collection service. This program is provided to residents as part of efforts
to meet State mandates to reduce landfill waste by 50%.
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Containers
Residents have a choice of a 38, 60 or 90-gallon mixed recycling container. Residents can
receive one or more mixed recycling containers for no additional charge.
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Missed Pickup
To report a missed garbage, green waste, or mixed
recycling pickup contact
Customer Service by email
or by
calling 916-875-5555.
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Collection Schedule
- Mixed recycling and green waste are collected on an alternating
week basis. Mixed recycling is collected one week, and green waste
the next.
- Containers must be at the curbside no later than 6:00 AM, on
your scheduled collection day, holidays included.
- Call Customer Service between the hours of 7:00 AM to
9:00 PM
Monday - Friday for collection schedule information.
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Container Setout
Please place containers on the street side as shown below so they do
not block pedestrian use of sidewalks. Keep containers a minimum of six (6) feet away
from cars, boats and other stationary objects to avoid risk of private property damage.
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Placement & Storage
Please remove containers from the curbside after they are serviced on
collection day. The appearance of neighborhoods would be improved if residents stored
containers in side or backyards after servicing.
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Container Replacement or Repair
To request any type of repair or replacement for garbage, green waste or
mixed recycling containers, residents should contact
Customer Service by email
or by
calling 916-875-5555. There is no extra charge for repairing or replacing damaged containers.
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Special Service
If your container is full before collection day, call the number below
for extra service at an added charge.
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Other Information
- Materials must fall freely from container when dumped.
- Containers may not be serviced if they are overfilled, are not
accessible, or include inappropriate materials.
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Acceptable & Unacceptable Materials
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Unacceptable Materials |
- Aluminum cans and
beverage containers
- Steel & empty
aerosol cans
- Clean aluminum pie
pans, foil and dinner trays with no food
contamination
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- NO paint cans or
other metal items
- NO ceramics,
Pyrex, porcelain, mirrors or window
glass, light bulbs or fixtures
- NO styrofoam
- NO flower pots
- NO syringes
- NO five gallon
buckets
- NO packing
peanuts. Please consider donating to
Mail Boxes Etc. for their reuse.
- NO plastic toys
without the #1 - #7 symbol
- NO plastic toys
with batteries, oil, fluids or other
household hazardous waste materials.
These materials must be removed and
properly disposed of prior to recycling
the plastic toy.
- NO food
contaminated paper
- NO pizza boxes
with food contamination
- NO household
batteries such as AA, AAA, C cells, D
cells and button batteries (watch,
hearing aid batteries, etc.)
- NO mercury
containing devices such as thermostats,
barometers, electrical switches &
relays, pilot light sensors, gauges,
musical greeting cards and athletic
shoes made before 1997 with flashing
lights in the soles.
- NO fluorescent
light tubes or bulbs
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- All colors of food
and beverage containers
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All plastic food and beverage containers
#1 - #7 including:
- Soft drinks and
sport drinks
- Beer and other
malt beverages
- Wine coolers and
distilled spirit coolers
- Water bottles
- Fruit drinks
- Coffee and tea
drinks
- Milk and juice
jugs
- Shampoo and
conditioner bottles
- Detergent and
bleach bottles
- Margarine tubs,
yogurt containers and other wide mouth
containers
Film Plastics (must be placed in a clear
plastic bag)
- Clean plastic bags
from grocery stores and retail stores,
shrink wrap (non-agricultural and
non-food storage), new products plastic
wrap, plastic windows from packaging
such as windows from new toys packaging
Plastic Toys
- Only plastic toys
displaying the #1 - #7 symbols.
Batteries, oil, fluids, etc. must be
removed and properly disposed of prior
to recycling the plastic toy.
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All clean and dry household paper
including:
- Newspaper
- Cardboard
- Magazines
- Phone books
- Computer paper
- Shredded paper
placed inside a clear plastic bag and
tied shut
- Food boxes
- Shoe boxes
- Milk, orange
juice, fruit juice, tea, lemonade and
limeade cartons
- Detergent boxes
- Advertising mail
- Catalogues
- Paper egg cartons
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Used Motor Oil & Filter
Recycling
Used motor oil and filters are accepted as part of the mixed recycling program.
- Do not place oil or filters in the mixed recycling container.
- Do not contaminate used oil by mixing with other
auto fluids.
- Place used motor oil in a clear, one-gallon plastic jug and tape lid shut.
- Place filters in a sealed plastic bag.
- Used motor oil and filter should be placed on ground at least three (3) feet away from the mixed recycling container.
- Used motor oil and filters will be collected on the same day the mixed recycling container is serviced.
- We request that residents put out no more than
three (3) gallons of used motor oil per recycling
collection day.
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