Special Stuff
Recycling Hotline (408) 924-5453 or 1 (800) 533-8414 or www.recyclestuff.org
For information about recycling unusual
materials not mentioned below.
Plastic Bags
Plastic bags are no longer accepted in your home recycling cart. They are expensive to recycle, require a tremendous amount of energy to produce, and are common litter items that threaten wildlife and pollute our creeks and the Bay. Return plastic bags to your local grocery store for recycling.
Household Hazardous Waste
You can schedule a free disposal appointment for hazardous materials
such as batteries, cleaning fluids, fluorescent bulbs, paint, pesticides
and fertilizers, pool chemicals, solvents, medical waste, and mercury
thermometers. Call the Santa
Clara County Household Hazardous Waste Program at 299-7300.
Or find local drop off collection locations for the following common
household hazardous wastes:
You can also check our events calendar periodically for household hazardous waste, electronic waste, expired medicine or mercury thermometer recycling events.
Electronics
See Santa Clara County's Recycling
Guide for CRTs and Electronics (PDF format, 39 KB) for a
current list of electronics recyclers for each city in Santa
Clara County.
Find more resources for recycling Universal
Wastes, including cell
phones, digital cameras and stereos.
The Environmental Protection Agency is working through its Plug-In To eCycling program to promote the environmental benefits of recycling and provide the public with information on safely reusing and recycling obsolete electronics products, including computers, cell phones, and televisions. For more information, see The Digital Television Transition: No Need to Trash Your TV.
Large Item Collection
You can have "bulky" items, such as mattresses, sofas, refrigerators, or tires, picked up at your curb for a small fee. To schedule a pick-up appointment, contact your recycling hauler. Not sure who your recycling hauler is? San José’s new online Collection Day Look-up now provides a convenient way to find your garbage, recycling, and yard trimmings collection day, street sweeping schedule, and service provider contact information.
Residents of apartments and condos should contact their property managers to arrange a large item pick-up.
Construction Debris
The City of San José has a Construction & Demolition Diversion
Deposit (CDDD) Program to ensure that construction and demolition
materials, for sites that have been issued a building permit, can
be recovered or reused instead of ending up in a landfill. For more
information about CDDD, visit Construction
and Demolition Recycling. This web site also lists CDDD-certified
facilities that will recover or recycle construction materials.
Check our web site listing of City
of San José Franchised Solid Waste Haulers for information
on debris box rentals.
Holiday Tree
Recycle your holiday tree from December 26, 2011 – February 3, 2012.
Natural and flocked holiday trees will be collected for recycling
on the same day as your garbage, recycling and yard trimmings. You
don't need to attach an "Extra Garbage" sticker, but you do need
to remove tinsel, decorations and the tree stand. Trees should then
be cut into five-foot lengths and placed in the street 1 foot from
the curb and 5 feet from your garbage and recycling carts and parked
vehicles.
If you live in an apartment, townhouse or condo, ask your property
manager if special arrangements have been made for recycling holiday
trees on-site. |
