The City of East Palo Alto's Recycling Program helps East Palo Alto residents and businesses conserve natural resources by providing extensive programs for reducing, reusing and recycling waste that would otherwise end up in landfills.

While recycling is important for the safety of our environment, recycling is also a law in California. In 1989, the California Integrated Waste Management Act (AB 939) was passed requiring all California cities to divert 50 percent of their waste from landfills by the year 2000. In 2000, the City of East Palo Alto was diverting 59-percent of its waste from landfill disposal through its successful waste prevention, reuse, recycling and composting programs.

The recycling and solid waste collected from the City of East Palo Alto is brought to Allied Waste/BFI's San Carlos Recycling Center and the Solid Waste Transfer Station. Yard waste is transported to BFI's Newby Island composting facility. Materials processed through the Recycling Center are marketed to companies which use them to make new products made from recycled material. Solid Waste is transported to Allied Waste/BFI's Ox Mountain Landfill in Half Moon Bay for environmentallhy safe disposal.

Recycle Your Used Motor Oil	Recycle all bottles and cans
You can recycle your used motor oil curbside or at a drop off center	Recycle all glass bottles and jars, plastic bottles , and aluminum and metal cans

The recycling portion of this website was partially funded through a grant from the California Integrated Waste Management Board and through a grant from the Department of Conservation.