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We provide residents of the unincorporated County with every-other week mixed recycling collection service. These services are provided as part of efforts to meet State mandates to reduce landfills by 50%.
You have a choice of a 30, 60 or 90-gallon mixed recycling container and can receive one or more mixed recycling containers for no additional charge.
Unauthorized removal of recyclables from a curbside container is a crime. Call the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department at 916-874-5115 if you see this happening.
Report a missed pick-up:
Collection Service:
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Mixed recycling and green waste are collected on an alternating weekly basis. Mixed recycling is collected one week, and green waste the next
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Containers must be at the curbside no later than 6 a.m., on your scheduled collection day, holidays included
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Call customer service between the hours of 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., Mon-Fri for collection schedule information
Local: 916-875-5555 - TDD (hearing impaired): 916-875-7105 Toll free: 1-800-932-8990
Container Set-out: Place containers on the side of the street so they do not block use of sidewalks. Keep them a minimum of six (6) feet away from cars, boats and other stationary objects to avoid risk of private property damage.
 
Placement and Storage of Containers: Please remove containers from the curbside after they are serviced on collection day. To preserve the appearance of neighborhoods, store in side or backyards.
Container Replacement or Repair: Contact Customer Service by email or by calling 916-875-5555. There is no extra charge for repairing or replacing damaged containers.
Special Services: If your container is full before collection day, call Customer Service for service at an added charge.
Other information: Materials must fall freely from the container when dumped. YOu may not be serviced if containers are overfilled, are not accessible or include inappropriate materials.
Acceptable & Unacceptable Items for Recycling Containers:
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Cans & Clean Foil
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Aluminum cans and beverage containers
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Aluminum pie pans, foil and dinner trays with no food contamination
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Steel and empty aerosol cans
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Glass Bottles & Jars - All colors
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Plastics - All plastic food and beverage containers #1-7 including:
- Soft drinks and sports 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 container
- Plastic shopping bags and shrink-wrap placed inside a plastic bag and tied shut
- Plastic toys that display the #1-#7 symbols
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Film Plastics (must be placed in a clear plastic bag)
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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.
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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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Paper - All should be clean and dry.
- Newspaper
- Cardboard
- Magazines
- Phone books
- Computer paper
- Shredded paper placed inside a clear plastic bag and tied shut
- Food boxes
- Shoe boxes
- Wax coated milk, juice, fruit punch, lemonade, tea, etc. cartons
- Detergent boxes
- Advertising mail
- Catalogues
- Paper egg cartons
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- Batteries - household batteries such as AA, AAA, C, D and button batteries
- Buckets - five gallons.
- Ceramics - Pyrex, porcelain, mirrors or window glass, light bulbs or fixtures.
- Florescent light bulbs
- Flower pots
- Mercury containing devices - thermostats, barometers, electrical switches & relays, pilot light sensors, gauges, musical greeting cards and athletic shoes made before 1997 with flashing lights in the soles.
- Paint cans and metal items
- Paper that is food contaminated
- Pizza boxes with food contamination
- Packing peanuts - Please consider donating to Mail Boxes Etc. for reuse.
- Plastic toys without the #1-#7 symbol
- Plastic toys with batteries, oil, fluids or other household hazardous waste materials These materials must be disposed of before the toy is recycled.
- Styrofoam
- Syringes
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Used Motor Oil & Filter Recycling:
User motor oil and filters are accepted Used part of the mixed recycling program
- Do not place oil or filters in the mixed recycling container
- Do not contaminate used motor oil by mixing it with other automotive fluids
- Place motor oil in a clear, one-gallon plastic jug and tape lid shut
- Place filters in sealed plastic bag
- Used motor oil and filter should be placed on the ground at least three (3) feet away from the mixed recycling container
- Used motor oil and filters will be collected on the same day 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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