Residents of single family homes or small complexes (up to 10 units) can recycle by using a purple container provided by the City.
Recyclables are collected each week on your trash collection day.
Holiday Schedule
Refuse and Recycling Collection
Refuse and recycling are collected on all holidays except Christmas and News Year's Day. When Christmas and News Year's Day fall on a weekday, collection for the Holiday and the remainder of that week will be delayed one day, ending Saturday.
Street Sweeping
Streets will not be swept on the following City-observed holidays: New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Day, Washington's Birthday, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Day after Thanksgiving, Christmas Day, New Years Day.
What can be recycled Click on an item for details:
All recyclables except for motor oil and motor oil filters must be placed inside the cart for collection. (For motor oil and motor oil filter collection instructions Click HERE.) Remember to leave two feet of space between your recycling and trash carts.
Composting
Green waste from your yard and garden accounts for approximately 25% of the refuse being hauled from your home each week. By composting, you can improve your soil for a more productive vegetable or flower garden, and help your community at the same time.
Grasscycling
Grasscycling is a simple and natural approach to lawn care that saves time, money and other resources like landfill space.
Recycling Centers
As an alternative to having your recyclables picked up, you can take them to one of these recycling centers:
CalMAX is a free, online materials exchange service designed to help businesses, organizations, local governments, industry, schools, and individuals find markets for nonhazardous materials that might otherwise be discarded.
To find out if CalMAX services can benefit you or your oganization, click HERE.
Phone book recycling
Here are three ways to recycle your old telephone books:
If you receive residential recycling service, place old telephone books in your recycling cart.
Take them to one of these drop-off locations:
CSULB Recycling Center, 600 Atherton Blvd
Long Beach Conservation Corps, 340 Nieto
Good Earth Recycling, 2005 Bixby Road
If you're a business with 50 or more phone books, call the Conservation Corps of Long Beach at (562) 986-1249 for a free pick-up.
Californians recycle nearly 60% of their beverage containers. But that means that more than 4 out of every 10 bottles and cans get trashed, instead of being recycled! Remember to recycle all your beverage containers.
Buying recycled Buying reycled-content products and items in recyclable packaging is important for sustainability.
Old computers, televisions, printers and so forth may contain substances which are harmful unless disposed of correctly. The easy and free way to dispose e-waste is to bring it to one of Los Angeles County's HHW and
E-Waste Roundup Events or permanent collection centers.
