Why Your GREEN Container????

Recology San Bruno’s web page provides the following info:

We accept all food scraps, soiled paper and yard trimmings in the green cart.

Beginning the week of January 6th 2014, please put your green cart out weekly with your blue and grey cart.

Don't send your food scraps and landscape material to the landfill; compost them instead! Other than being the environmentally friendly thing to do, most residents who participate in the compost collection program see a significant decrease in their garbage. So put your food scraps and food and beverage containers in the Compost cart instead of the Garbage cart, and help us all achieve Waste Zero!

We accept all food scraps, soiled paper and yard trimmings in the green cart.

Kitchen Pails

Please use your kitchen pail to collect your food scraps and soiled paper products and then empty the contents into your green cart.

Note:Organic/Compostable bags are not allowed in this program. Please refer to the

You CAN Compost

Food Scraps

• Bread, grains and pasta
• Coffee grounds (and filters)
• Dairy
• Eggshells
• Fish and shellfish
• Fruit, including pits
• Meat, including bones
• Poultry
• Vegetables

Soiled Paper Products

• Coffee filters
• Greasy pizza boxes
• Paper cups: 
  (including chain store coffee cups) and plates
• Paper ice cream containers
• Paper bags, napkins and towels
• Paper take-out boxes and containers
• Paper tea bags
• Waxed cardboard and paper
• Wine corks

Yard Trimmings

• Branches and brush
• Flowers and floral trimmings
• Grasses and weeds
• Leaves
• Tree trimmings

PLEASE NO:

• Animal waste
• Concrete, asphalt, stones, sod, dirt and bricks
• Cooking oil
• Diapers
• Juice or soy milk boxes with foil liner
• Liquids and ice
• Recyclables: 
  (glass, aluminum, paper, plastics 1-7)
• Palm fronds
• Plastic/Compostable bags
• Plastic corks
• Plywood
• Styrofoam packaging, food containers, packing peanuts
• Treated and painted wood

Composting is a highly effective way to help protect the environment, and Recology San Mateo County is proud to offer a home composting collection service to its customers.

More than six million tons of food products are dumped in California every year. Food is the largest single source of waste in California, making up 15.5 percent of the waste stream.

That waste decomposes and creates methane gas, which is 23 times more potent than carbon dioxide and is directly attributed to climate change. Composting is nature's way of recycling organic waste into a new soil amendment rich in nutrients that can be used for organic farming, vineyards     and highway erosion and control projects.

Recology San Bruno

Mailing Address:
Recology San Bruno
101 Tanforan Avenue
San Bruno, CA 94066

Office Address:
Recology San Bruno
1356 Marsten Road
Burlingame, CA 94010

Customer Service:(650) 583-8536Fax:(650) 583-8781
General Manager:
Kirsten Pinochi