64-Gallon Trash Cart with the Black Lid
This 64-gallon cart is collected at the curb every week on your regular scheduled collection day. Use this cart for household non-recyclables. You'll be surprised how little trash is generated.
Placement of all carts at the curb is essential to insure collection by automated trucks. Place your trash cart on either side of your driveway, at the edge of the curb, and be sure the lid is entirely closed on all carts. Allow a minimum of three feet of clearance on all sides of the cart from objects such as trees, fences, mailboxes, basketball hoops, streetlights and other carts. Carts must be a minimum of six feet from any vehicles. Position your carts in a manner so that pedestrians can use the sidewalk. To increase or decrease the size of your trash cart contact El Dorado Disposal by phone at (916) 985-1162, (530) 621-4141, or at www.eldoradodisposal.com
96-Gallon Mixed Recycling Cart with the Blue Lid (yellow lid after June 2005)
You can do your part to help save the landfill space, preserve natural resources, and conserve energy by participating in EDH Recycling Program. Put your recycling cart in a convenient location and use it every day. Make the recycling life-style a part of your household.
Recycling is easy with this collection system. Just fill your Blue or Yellow Lid cart with the acceptable materials listed below. Place this cart at the curb every other week along with your trash cart for collection and be sure the lid is entirely closed. Use the convenient color-coded Collection Calendar as a reference.
Acceptable Materials (Please place only these items in your recycling cart.)
- All CA redemption value drink containers
- Tin & steel cans
- Aluminum cans
- Glass bottles & jars
- Newspaper
- Plastic bottles & jugs
- Aluminum foil & trays
- Corrugated cardboard
- Cereal boxes (without the liner) / shoe boxes
- Brown paper bags
- Junk mail
- Colored paper & bags
- Construction paper
- Envelopes
- Phone books
- Catalogs
- Computer paper
- White ledger paper
- Chipboard
Please break down or flatten cardboard boxes to make more room in the mixed recycling cart.
OPTIONS for disposing of extra MIXED RECYCLING (cardboard, tin cans, newspaper, magazines, mixed paper, glass bottles, aluminum cans, narrow neck plastic bottles #1-7.):
96-Gallon Yard & Garden Cart with the Green Lid
Recent surveys show that up to 40% of the residential waste stream is made up of organic green waste. You can help reduce waste by putting your yard and garden waste into this cart. Place this cart at the curb every other week along with your trash cart for collection and be sure the lid is entirely closed on all carts. Use the convenient color-coded Collection Schedule Calendar for reference.
Acceptable Materials: (Please place only these items in your yard & garden cart)
- Lawn trimmings
- Garden prunings
- Cutting from trees & shrubs
- Weeds
- Leaves
- Household plants
- Cut trimmings
- Spent flower bouqets
OPTIONS for disposing of extra YARD/GREEN WASTE:
- A second yard/green waste cart is available a FREE of charge from El Dorado Disposal. Call (916) 985-1162, (530)626-414,1or log on to www.eldoradodisposal.com.
- Compost your yard waste for future reuse in your garden. Contact the CSD for free brochure.
- Use your Waste Connection vouchers to take up to four yards of green waste to the "MRF" in Diamond Springs. Call (916)-985-1162, or (530)626-4141 for directions and hours of operation.
Unacceptable Materials: ( Please do not place the following items in your recycling or yard & garden cart)
- Plastic bags
- Dirt, rock or concrete
- Food scraps
- Dead animals
- Hot ashes (Any Cart)
- Liquids such as oil, water, gas or chemicals (Any Cart)
- Styrofoam / Polystyrene materials
- Household Hazardous Waste
Whenever possible, please reduce your household hazardous waste by only purchasing the amount you need and by donating unused portions to friends or community organizations.
OPTIONS for disposing of Household Hazardous Waste:
A. The fire station on Bass Lake Rd. accepts ONLY household hazardous waste from 9-noon on the first and third Saturday, weather permitting. For more information go to www.edhfire.com
B. El Dorado Disposal Service, a Waste Connections company, Material Recovery Facility (MRF), will accept limited household hazardous waste Fridays and Saturdays, 9am-5pm, 4100 Throwita Way, Placerville. The Waste Collection facility will accept the following items with a 5- gallon or 50 pound limit per vehicle: Paint, used motor oil and batteries (any day), solvents/thinners, aerosols, pesticides/herbicides, photo chemicals, antifreeze, brake fluid, adhesives/sealants, floor/furniture cleaners, pool chemicals. You may bring (and legally transport) up to four (4) 5-gallon containers of motor oil for recycling. See www.eldoradodisposal.com for more information.
C. Items that cannot be accepted at the MRF: Radioactive materials, medical wastes (except home-generated sharps), explosives or compressed gas cylinders.
D. Batteries, fluoresent bulbs and tubes are considered hazardous waste and are accepted at hazardous waste collection facilities.
E. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE COLLECTION PLEASE CALL EL DORADO DISPOSAL at (916)-985-1162, (530)-621-4141 or log on to www.eldoradodisposal.com.