2024 Board of Directors Meetings
RecycleSmart Board meetings are generally held the fourth Thursday of the month at 3:00 p.m. All meetings are held at Walnut Creek City Hall, 1666 North Main Street, 3rd floor conference room, Walnut Creek unless otherwise noted. The Board does not hold regular meetings in August or November. Board meeting agendas and complete packets will be posted at […]
Making Everyday Recycling Even Easier
Making Everyday Recycling Even Easier What do you think about your garbage, recycling and organics services? Take our 2-minute survey and give us your thoughts—we’re always looking for ways to help you recycle even more!
Newsletter Winter 2024
Toggle navigation Be Picky About Packaging E-Waste/Batteries Reminders Where Does Your Packaging Go? Take it Back Canyon Club Brewery: Spent Grain Speeds Gains Fun with Furoshiki! Print Be Picky About Packaging In California, packaging waste makes up 27% of what we dump in landfills. Between cardboard, bubble wrap, foam peanuts, air pockets and other packaging […]
Vermicomposting (Worms!) and Bin Building
Learn to compost with worms! This is a hands-on workshop. You will assemble your bin, take it home with your worms and knowledge, and start composting right away! All supplies and worms included. Composting with worms is a compact, easy, and clean composting method for all lifestyles (useful for one person or a larger household), and is a […]
Newsletter Winter 2016
Republic’s trucks practically float All of the 40 Republic Services collection trucks in the RecycleSmart area now run on Compressed Natural Gas (CNG). It’s cleaner and greener than diesel—and it’s lighter than air! The natural gas that many of us use to heat our homes or boil a pot of spaghetti on the stove […]
Newsletter Summer 2016
What do those Mean? It’s all in the numbers. Plastics are made of many different chemicals. The little “chasing arrow” triangles contain a number code that identifies which chemicals were used to create that container. Not all plastics are recyclable but RecycleSmart will take them all (except a few) and do the sorting for […]
Newsletter Fall 2017
Bag the bags and watch them go. Bag the bags and watch them go. Plastic bread bags. Newspaper bags, produce bags, dry cleaning and food storage plastic bags. More and more people are taking advantage of RecycleSmart’s plastic bag recycling program. Almost any clean plastic bag can easily be recycled in your blue cart. Just […]
Newsletter Summer 2017
Bathrooms. The missing link. Toilet paper rolls. Toothpaste boxes. Empty prescription bottles. Shampoo bottles. They’re all found in your bathroom and, yes, they’re all fully recyclable. We’re doing a great job recycling in the kitchen (glass, plastic, cans) and other rooms (newspaper, cardboard boxes, wrapping paper). But according to new research by the Ad Council, […]
Newsletter Spring 2017
How long until it disappears? Toss an apple core and a metal can into your yard—which will disappear first? The core, of course. Toss them into a landfill and guess which one? The can! Here’s why. Metal oxidizes, forming rust. Microorganisms break the can down into simple molecules, although it will take hundreds of […]
Newsletter Spring 2018
Why Keep Your Recyclables Clean? Because China’s new policies have dramatically reduced the amount of recycling it’s accepting. And it’s requiring much cleaner materials. The U.S. exports about one-third of its recycling, and nearly half has been going to China. For decades, China has used recyclables to supply its manufacturing boom, but the boom has […]
