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Commercial Recycling in El Dorado County
El Dorado Disposal offers convenient commercial recycling pickup for businesses across El Dorado County, including cardboard recycling for flattened boxes. Commercial waste recycling reduces the amount of waste that ends up in landfills and saves the energy needed to reproduce these same materials.
Request Commercial Recycling Pickup

Contact our office to start commercial recycling services at your business.

Ensure that your recyclables are properly prepared in your commercial recycling containers and ready for collection.

We will provide on-time pickup based on your assigned service dates.

Know What To Recycle, Including Cardboard Recycling
Please empty recyclables out of bags and boxes so that they can be easily sorted, and flatten boxes for cardboard recycling. Plastic bags are considered trash and El Dorado Disposal would like recyclable products to be placed in the recycle cart free and loose, without bags. Check out our guide below to see which items are acceptable and unacceptable to recycle.
Acceptable Items
- Plastic: All items need to be rinsed out and dry. Plastic bottles, tubs, jugs, and jars. Lids removed and put in the garbage.
- Paper: All items need to be dry and clean. Newspaper, magazines, junk mail, envelopes without plastic windows, catalogs, paper bags, office paper, phone books, paperback books, and flattened cardboard boxes.
- Glass: All clean and dry bottles and jars, with or without labels. Lids removed and put in the garbage.
- Metal: All clean and dry aluminum, tin, steel and bi-metal food or beverage containers with or without labels. Lids removed and put in the garbage.
Unacceptable Items
- Food scraps, food-soiled paper or boxes
- Plastic bags
- Plastic wrap and film
- Bubble wrap/Air pillows
- Styrofoam peanuts and blocks
- Shredded paper
- Scrap metal
- Yard waste
California Mandates for Commercial Customers
AB 341 requires a business that generates four cubic yards or more of mixed waste per week, or a multifamily residential dwelling of five units or more, to arrange for commercial recycling services. Learn more about state mandate AB 341 and your El Dorado County disposal and recycling options.
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Check Out Our Recycling Guide
Recycling waste reduces reliance on landfills. Use the lists below to sort accepted items into your commercial recycling bins.

- Beverage bottles
- Jugs
- Jars
- Food containers

- Newspaper
- Magazines
- Books
- Office paper

- Most bottles
- Jugs
- Jars

- Aluminum cans
- Steel cans
- Aluminum bottles
- Steel bottles



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