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The do and don'ts in the disposal of garbage  
Recycle these items in your green lid recycling cart:
  • Newspaper
  • Cardboard
  • Mixed paper
  • Glass bottles & jars
  • Steel and aluminum containers
  • All plastic containers #1-7

Recycle yardwaste in the yardwaste cart with the brown lid.  Extra yardwaste may be placed in 30 gallon cans or plastic bags weighing less than 40 lbs.

Recycle your motor oil in a City provided jug and set it out on your regular trash day. Call (916) 617-4589 to receive your free container.

Recycle your oil filter in a reclosable plastic bag and set out your regular trash day.


Take the items listed below to a Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) Collection Facility. Click here for information about the Yolo County HHW events.  DO NOT put into sinks, toilets or storm drains.
 
HOUSEHOLD ITEMS
  • Cleaning Supplies
  • Dry Cleaning solvent
  • Furniture and floor polish
  • Metal polish
  • Moth balls and flakes
  • Rug cleaners
  • Fluorescent light bulbs & tubes
  • Batteries
  • Spot removers
  • Butane lighters
  • Flea powder
  • Lighter fluid
  • Mercury thermometer
GARAGE/WORKSHOP ITEMS
Automotive Supplies Garden Supplies
  • Antifreeze
  • Automotive cleaner
  • Auto body filler
  • Automatic transmission fluid
  • Brake fluid
  • Carburetor cleaner
  • Car Wax
  • Chrome Polish
  • Diesel fuel
  • Engine degreaser
  • Gasoline
  • Kerosene or lamp oil
  • Lubricating oil
  • Motor oil, new or used
  • Fungicides
  • Herbicides
  • Insecticides
  • Soil fumigants
  • Snail and slug poison
  • Vegetation killer
  • Weed killer
  • Rat, Mouse, and gopher poison
Painting Supplies Other
  • Acrylic paint
  • Latex-based paint
  • Model airplane paint
  • Oil based paint
  • Paint stripper
  • Paint thinner, turpentine
  • Mineral spirits
  • Artist's Mediums
  • Thinners, fixatives
  • Rubber cement thinner
  • Wood preservatives
  • Fluorescent lamp ballasts (PCBs)
  • Glues and Cements
  • Photographic chemicals/soloutions
  • Resins, fiberglass, epoxy
  • Asbestos