Compost collection is now required for all customers in San Francisco.
What We Save
Where some people see garbage, Recology sees the opportunity to reduce waste. Working together with residents and businesses, we've helped make San Francisco America's greenest city. The mural created in the video measures 18 by 30 feet. It was made by Bay Area Artists and Recology workers from bottles, cans, paper, and other recycling collected from the tipping floor at Recycle Central, the 200,000-square-foot recycling plant on Pier 96.
Email Alerts
"Nice-to-know" recycling updates keep you in the loop. San Franciscans can now sign up to receive brief email alerts advising them of compost giveaways and other recycling information.
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"Nice-to-know" recycling updates keep you in the loop. San Franciscans can now sign up to receive brief email alerts advising them of compost giveaways and other recycling information.
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Recycling supervisor's idea becomes citywide program for social good in S.F.
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David Nanney, a supervisor at Recycle Central, the recycling plant Recology operates in San Francisco to sort bottles, cans, and paper, noticed the occasional BART ticket moving
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GREEN CART PROGRAM
RECYCLING PROGRAM
City and State law prohibits the theft of any recyclable materials.
PROGRAMS & SERVICES
Recology is a 100 percent employee-owned company based in San Francisco. We provide collection, recycling, compost, and disposal services. Our San Francisco operating companies include:
Our focus is and always will be to provide superior customer service. We take care of our customers.
Part of our attention to service is to provide programs that make recycling easy and convenient for our customers and to help San Francisco make additional progress toward zero waste, a goal set by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
On this website you will find information about the numerous recycling programs we provide in San Francisco and how to participate in those programs. Recycling and composting are programs we can all participate in every day that directly benefit the environment. Working together we can help keep San Francisco clean and be highly effective in helping to protect the environment.
- Recology Sunset Scavenger, which provides collection services in the residential districts of San Francisco.
- Recology Golden Gate, which provides collection services in the Financial District, North Beach, South of Market, and the Marina.
- Recology San Francisco, which operates the transfer station and recycling complex at 501 Tunnel Avenue, and Recycle Central on Pier 96.
Our focus is and always will be to provide superior customer service. We take care of our customers.
Part of our attention to service is to provide programs that make recycling easy and convenient for our customers and to help San Francisco make additional progress toward zero waste, a goal set by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
On this website you will find information about the numerous recycling programs we provide in San Francisco and how to participate in those programs. Recycling and composting are programs we can all participate in every day that directly benefit the environment. Working together we can help keep San Francisco clean and be highly effective in helping to protect the environment.