Recycling

Curbside Recycling Programs

Residential recycling is strongly encouraged in the City of Santa Clarita. To make it easy, Santa Clarita has a co-mingled residential recycling program for all residents of single family homes, apartments, condominiums, and mobile home parks. Co-mingled residential recycling allows residents to place the following mixed recyclables in one container:

Acceptable Recycling Materials

• Aluminum cans, foil and trays
• Tin and bi-metal cans
• Rinsed milk cartons - flattened
• Clean Plastic Bags and Film Bags (grocery and store bags, dry cleaner bags) - bundled in a tied bag
• Clean Plastic Bottles and Containers #1 - #7 (soda, juice, detergent, bleach, shampoo, lotion, mouthwash, dishwashing containers, milk jugs, margarine tubs and yogurt) - emptied and rinsed
• Glass bottles and jars - emptied and rinsed
• Loose newspaper
• Paper Board
• Cereal and cracker boxes - liners removed
• Six-pack cartons
• Cardboard and corrugated boxes
• Brown paper grocery bags
• Magazines
• Glossy paper
• Junk mail
• Stationery and envelopes, "Post-it" notes
• Any high-grade/uncoated paper or binder/notebook paper; any color

Non-Acceptable Recycling Materials

• Scrap metal
• Plastic motor oil bottles
• Window pane glass
• Mirror
• Light bulbs
• Ceramic pottery, cups and dishes
• Ovenware
• Plastic or wax coated paper
• Cereal box liners
• Books
• Gummed or glued bindings (telephone books ok)
• Carbon paper
• Aluminum foil boxes
• Plastic wrap
• Contaminated Paper - unclean juice or food boxes, soiled paper (paper towels, napkins, tissue, paper plates) or bags with oil and food waste, coated milk cartons, paper cups, wax paper
• Hazardous Materials - batteries, syringes, electronic items, aerosol cans and cleaning fluids containers, automotive fluids, pesticides, paint, garden chemicals, pool cleaners
• Miscellaneous Materials - cloth, appliances, tires, carpet and padding, computer parts, diapers, dryer lint, food waste, packaging materials, lawn furniture, pens and pencils, phones, clocks, water pipes, wood/lumber, construction materials, yard trimmings

How to Prepare Your Recycling

• Rinse and flatten cans, milk cartons, and jugs to save space and energy.
• Metal jar lids can be placed with your tin cans.
• No need to remove labels.
• Plastic bags (only those displaying the recycling symbol) can be included with the rest of your recyclables.
• Combine all plastic bags(grocery store, dry cleaning, or others)into one plastic bag and place in the recycling bin.

Redeem Your Recyclables for Cash

For a location near you, visit www.bottlesandcans.com or earth911.org

Single Family Recycling

Collection occurs on your regular weekly trash collection day. A 96-gallon grey cart with a green lid is provided to all single family households. Recycling is unlimited, so use as many recycling bins as you need. If you need additional bins, contact Waste Management/Blue Barrel at (661)259-2398 to request a second container (free of charge).

Redeem Your Recyclables for Cash

Multi-family recycling bins for co-mingled materials are conveniently located in many multi-family complexes in the city. Contact your management office for the location of your designated recycling bins. This recycling service is free to all multi-family complexes in Santa Clarita. If your complex does not offer recycling services, please contact your local management or the City of Santa Clarita Environmental Services Division at (661)286-4098.

Special Recycling Programs

Used Motor Oil Recycling

Recycling provides a safe alternative to the illegal disposal of motor oil and filters which are classified as household hazardous wastes. Recycled oil is re-refined and put back into the market for sale, saving thousands of barrels of oil per day.

Santa Clarita residents may conveniently recycle their used motor oil and filters in two ways:

1. Simply bring your used oil and filters to any of the over 20 Santa Clarita collection centers for recycling. For a list of the centers, contact the California Environmental Hotline at (800)CLEAN UP or go to http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/UsedOil/Centers/.

2. A curbside collection program allows Santa Clarita residents to recycle used motor oil and filters at no charge. To request a curbside collection appointment, contact Curbside, Inc. at (800) OIL-9255.

Preparing your motor oil and oil filters:

• Drain the oil from your oil filters and drain pan. Place all oil into any empty, clean and reusable plastic container with a tight fitting lid. The size should not exceed five gallons.
• Do not mix motor oil with any other automotive products such as antifreeze, gasoline, transmission fluid or other automotive lubricants.
• Once motor oil containers are drained, they can be recycled at the curb with your regular recyclables, or reused the next time you change your oil. (Motor oil recycling locations and gas stations cannot dispose of your used oil containers.)

Christmas Trees/Mulch

The City of Santa Clarita offers free curbside Christmas tree recycling every year. By recycling your tree, you can help the environment and keep this valuable resource out of our landfills. All recycled trees are used as soil amendment, compost, or bagged for mulch to be given away every March at the Arbor Day celebration.

All single family and multi-family residents can recycle their Christmas trees. Single family residents should place their trees at the curb on their regular collection day during the two weeks following Christmas. Multi-family residents can place their trees adjacent to the refuse bins in their complex.

Remember:

• No flocked, painted or fireproofed trees
• No ornaments, tinsel or lights
• No nails or tree stands