Pickup: Curbside recycling services for residences.

General Info: The El Cerrito Recycling Center provides weekly recycling collection for all homes, apartments, and businesses in El Cerrito. Recycling is collected from the curbside on the same day as garbage collection. Please place your recycling bins out on the curb in a visible location by 8am on your collection day.

Direct all questions about garbage or greenwaste collection in the City of El Cerrito to East Bay Sanitary at (510) 237-4321.

E-mail: recycle@ci.el-cerrito.ca.us

Website: http://www.ecrecycling.org

Materials Recycled and/or Reused:

Construction Material & Debris This vendor handles: Wood Scraps: Untreated (Place in green waste/yard debris cart.)

Glass This vendor handles: Beer Bottles Bottles - Glass: CRV Bottles - Glass: Non-CRV Glass Bottles: CRV Glass Bottles: Non-CRV

Metal This vendor handles: Aerosol Cans: Empty (Only completely empty spray cans are accepted) Aluminum Cans: CRV Aluminum Cans: Non-CRV Aluminum Foil & Pans Bi-Metal: CRV Bi-Metal: Non-CRV Spray Cans: Empty Tin Cans

Organics This vendor handles: Christmas Trees (Natural trees only - flocked trees can’t be recycled.) Grass Clippings (Place in green waste/yard debris cart.) Leaves (Place in green waste/yard debris cart.) Sawdust (Place in green waste/yard debris cart.) Straw/Hay (Place in green waste/yard debris cart.) Wood Debris: Untreated (Place in green waste/yard debris cart.) Yard Trimmings (Place in green waste/yard debris cart.)

Paper This vendor handles: Cardboard (Bundles must be no larger than 3’x2’x1’) Catalogues / Magazines Cereal Boxes Chipboard Envelopes - Reuse (Envelopes not suitable for reuse can be recycled with your mixed paper.) Junk Mail - Recycle Magazines - Recycle Newspaper Paper Bags: Grocery / Kraft Paper: Computer Paper: Mixed Paper: White Paperboard Telephone Books

Plastic This vendor handles: #1 PETE Bottles: CRV #1 PETE Bottles: Non-CRV (Narrow-neck Only) #1-#7 Narrow-neck Bottles #2 HDPE Bottles: CRV #2 HDPE Bottles: Non-CRV (Narrow-neck Only) #4 LDPE Bottles: CRV #4 LDPE Bottles: Non-CRV (Narrow-neck Only) Bottles - Plastic: CRV Bottles - Plastic: Non-CRV (Narrow-neck Only) Milk Jugs: #2 HDPE Plastic Bottles Narrow-neck: #1-#7 Plastic Bottles: CRV Plastic Bottles: Non-CRV (Narrow-neck Only) Water Bottles: #1 PETE - CRV Water Jugs: #2 HDPE

Special Materials This vendor handles: Beverage Containers: Mixed (Narrow-neck Only)