Residential Services
Recycling is more important than ever before to individuals and to cities such as San Francisco. There is a pressing need to preserve our environment, save natural resources, reduce the amount of garbage going to landfills, and make recycling easy. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has mandated a goal of 75 percent waste diversion for all of San Francisco by the year 2010 and zero waste by 2020. Click here for a list of San Francisco businesses already meeting city goals by diverting 75% or more of their garbage away from landfill disposal and towards recycling and composting programs.
Please see the programs below which are available to help residential customers achieve zero waste.
Please see the programs below which are available to help residential customers achieve zero waste.
3-Cart Recycling Program
In San Francisco, the recycle collection program (blue cart) accepts all clean paper, bottles, cans, and most plastics (no plastic bags, wrappers, or Styrofoam). The compost collection program (green cart) accepts all food scraps, soiled paper, and plants.
Click on the blue, green, or black cart for information about what to put in each cart.
Still have questions? Please see our FAQ page for answers!
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Still have questions? Please see our FAQ page for answers!
Various Cart Sizes Available
If you often have extra material, larger or multiple blue and green carts are available at no additional charge for residential curbside customers. Larger black carts have an additional monthly charge. For more information or to arrange for a different size cart, email Customer Service or call us:
- Sunset Scavenger (415) 330-1300
- Golden Gate Disposal (415) 626-400
Got big stuff?
Schedule a Junk Pick Up. We'll make a personal visit to take away your clutter!
We offer two levels of service, Bulky Item Collection and RecycleMyJunk.com. Bulky Item Collection (BIC) is offered to San Francisco residents only at no additional cost. Apartment tenants are entitled to one pickup per year and households are entitled to two pickups per year. Certain restrictions apply. RecycleMyJunk.com is a low-cost hauling service that is offered to residential, multi-family, and commercial customers in the City of San Francisco for larger or more frequent pickups that do not qualify for BIC collection.
We offer two levels of service, Bulky Item Collection and RecycleMyJunk.com. Bulky Item Collection (BIC) is offered to San Francisco residents only at no additional cost. Apartment tenants are entitled to one pickup per year and households are entitled to two pickups per year. Certain restrictions apply. RecycleMyJunk.com is a low-cost hauling service that is offered to residential, multi-family, and commercial customers in the City of San Francisco for larger or more frequent pickups that do not qualify for BIC collection.
Got Toxic Stuff?
Items such as electronics, batteries, fluorescent and HID bulbs and lamps, paints, pesticides, and other chemicals are illegal to put in the trash. For proper disposal and recycling options available to residential customers at no additional cost, visit our Household Hazardous Waste page.
Recycling Theft
City and State law prohibit the theft of any recyclable materials. Sunset Scavenger Company and Golden Gate Disposal & Recycling Company are the only collection companies authorized by the City of San Francisco to collect recycling from recycling carts or bins. If you see someone other than an employee of either company removing recyclables from a recycling cart or bin, obtain the vehicle license number, vehicle description, time and address of the theft, description of the person(s), and fill out our online Recycle Theft Form, or call 330-1300 during normal business hours.
For your safety, do NOT confront the recycling thieves.
Thank you for doing your part to help San Francisco meet its mandated 75% recycling goal.
For your safety, do NOT confront the recycling thieves.
Thank you for doing your part to help San Francisco meet its mandated 75% recycling goal.