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20% OFF NatureMill Indoor Composter
We are now offering CCCSWA service area residents and businesses a 20% off online coupon code for the NatureMill Indoor Composter. It produces compost in only two weeks and is a perfect fit for apartments and offices!
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Backyard Composting Workshops
Battery Recycling
CCCSWA offers common household battery recycling where residents can dispose of their spent batteries. Click here to see a list of our local retailers that provide free household battery collection.
Bio-Plastic Products
Local stores are expanding their offering of bio-plastic products, such as plastic bags and utensils, with claims that they are “biodegradable” or “compostable”. But in reality, not all will biodegrade quickly or completely. Although all bio-plastics are made from organic material, some take longer to break down or may not break down at all! Fortunately, choosing compostable bags and dishware has just become easier. The Biodegradable Products Institute (“BPI”) created a label identifying products that have passed several tests to make sure they are truly compostable. Look for products with the label shown above.
Also, please be sure to place BPI certified bio-plastic bags and containers into your green yard clippings cart — not your burgundy recycling or blue trash carts!
CCCSWA Board of Directors Meeting
The CCCSWA Board of Directors Meeting will be held Thursday, January 26, 2012 @ 3:00 p.m. in Walnut Creek. Click here for agenda packet. Thank you.
CCCSWA Featured In California Special District Magazine
In the October 2011 issue, California Special District Magazine published an extensive article describing the CCCSWA-EBMUD partnership to recycle commercial food waste, which results in the generation of renewable energy. To read the article click the 'Keep Reading' link below.
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CCCSWA Receives CRRA and SWANA Awards
CCCSWA's Request for Proposals
The Central Contra Costa Solid Waste Authority is seeking proposals from qualified firms and/or individuals for the continuation of our current Schools Education, Waste Reduction and Recycling Program for K-12 schools in Alamo, Blackhawk, Danville, Diablo, Lafayette, Moraga, Orinda and Walnut Creek. Deadline for submission is January 23, 2012.
Please click here for the Request for Proposal (RFP) document.
Current CRV Locations
Closest NexCycle Locations:
- 2505 San Ramon Valley Blvd., San Ramon
- 660 San Ramon Valley Blvd., Danville
Also at the Walnut Creek Recycling Center, 480 Lawrence Way, Walnut Creek
CLICK HERE to find additonal locations for CRV Recycling
Food Recycling Project
The Central Contra Costa Solid Waste Authority has partnered with the East Bay Municipal Utility District and Allied Waste Services to expand the “Food Recycling Project”; an innovative new program that will divert commercial food waste from landfill disposal for conversion into renewable energy. This project began as a pilot program in November 2008 and is currently available to serve most restaurants, grocery stores, and other large commercial or institutional food waste generators in the CCCSWA service area. To learn more about this program, please click here. To see which restaurants participate in the program, please click here.
Magazine Recognizes CCCSWA-EBMUD Partnership to Recycling Food Waste
In the July 2010 issue, BIOCYCLE Magazine published an extensive article describing the CCCSWA-EBMUD partnership to recycle commercial food waste, which results in generation of renewable energy. BIOCYCLE is the premier magazine promoting composting, organics recycling, and renewable energy to a worldwide audience. Click here to read or download the article.
New Residential and Commercial Rates
New Service Rates for Garbage & Recycling Services beginning March 1, 2011.
Order a Soilsaver Compost Bin
For less than ten minutes a week you can reduce your garbage, your garbage bill and create healthy soil for your plants. It's quick, it's easy—it's home composting! Home composting takes little time, space and effort, and it's so rewarding. Give it a try. Your plants (and your pocketbook) will thank you! Click here to order!
Pharmaceutical Disposal
Disposing of unwanted medications properly will help to protect your family, your community, and your environment.
Click here for locations, what is acceptable and other important information you should know.
RecycleBank Pilot Program
Get Rewarded for Recycling!
Orinda, Moraga and the Central Contra Costa Solid Waste Authority, with support provided by collection service provider Waste Management, are proud to bring residents RecycleBank - a rewards program that motivates people to recycle that currently serves over 1 million residents in over 20 different states. For more information and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), please click here.
Recycling at Events
California State Law AB 2176 requires recycling to be available and convenient to the public attending large venues and events attracting 2,000 or more attendees per day or charging an entrance fee, while promoting planning for recycling at those locations during design and operation.
If your event meets the above requirements you must complete required recycling documentation in order to obtain a community event permit from all City Hall permit departments within the CCCSWA service area: Walnut Creek, Orinda, Moraga, Lafayette, Danville, and unincorporated areas including Alamo and Blackhawk.
Residential Food Scrap Collection
Residents of Orinda, Lafayette, Moraga and now Walnut Creek can throw household food scraps into their green waste cart for weekly pick-up. To get a free food scrap container please go to the Walnut Creek Recycling Center at 480 Lawrence Way, W.C.
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School's 4Rs Winter Newsletter
Our School's newsletter is available to you, so if you want to learn about an upcoming workshop for teachers and parents, how to get your school Wastebusters certified or information about lunch waste, please click here.
Sharps and Lancets Disposal
A new Residential Sharps Drop-off Program has begun where residents can dispose of their used needles, syringes, lancets and other sharp-edged medical devices. Click here for a list of locations.
An even more convenient program is the new sharps home delivery program for residents of Danville, Lafayette, Moraga, Orinda, Walnut Creek, and adjacent unincorporated areas of Central Contra Costa. To learn more information about this new program, please click here!
Summer 4Rs Schools Newsletter
We know these are difficult times for schools with cuts and layoffs of staff, but we have the resources to show you how you can cut back on the cost of trash services and save significant dollars that can be put to better use.