The City of Rohnert Park contracts with Recology to perform garbage pickup and recycling services to all residential, commercial and multi-family customers.
If you have questions or concerns about your recycling services, please contact Recology at (800) 243-0291.
The City of Rohnert Park contracts with Recology to perform curbside refuse, recycling and compost pickup from the residents and businesses of the City, 5 days a week, excluding some holidays. Your blue recycling bin and green compost bin are picked up every week on your trash day. View the Pick-Up Schedule for your street's collection day.
Recycling
You can place all of your recyclables in your blue recycling bin. These include paper, cardboard, cartons, glass, plastic containers and lids, and metal cans. Please make sure food and liquids are removed from your recyclables, and that they are not too enclosed in a plastic bag. For more information about what you can and cannot place in your recycling bin, please see the recycling guidelines or contact Recology at (800) 243-0291 or [email protected].
Compost
You can put more than yard clippings in your green compost bin. In addition to landscape pruning’s, grass clippings and small tree branches, you can also put food scraps and food soiled paper in your green bin. These items include fruits and vegetables, old bread, pasta and rice, tea bags, coffee grounds and filters, meat and bones, cheese, and eggshells. Please do not place non-compostable items, such plastics, glass, or other refuse, in the green compost bin. For more information about what you can and cannot place in your green bin, please see the compost guidelines or contact Recology at (800) 243-0291 or [email protected].
Residential Recycling Services
These recycling program services are provided as part of your refuse collection services:
You can mix all of your recyclables together in one easy-to-handle rolling cart. No more separating recyclable materials! This means that cardboard, newspaper, junk mail, office paper, glass bottle, milk cartons and other recyclables can all be put in the same container. The hauler will sort the materials. Please be careful though to follow some easy mixed recycling guidelines.
You can recycle used oil curbside by special appointment. To recycle used motor oil, you will have to sign up in advance, and you are required to use a special container provided by the hauler. You also must call ahead for pickup. Contact Recology at (800) 243-0291 to participate.
Yard waste will be picked up every week. No more wondering which week to put it out!
Commercial Recycling Services
Recycling benefits business: it's good for your bottom line! By increasing the quantity of materials you recycle, you may be able to reduce your waste collection needs - as well as your waste disposal bill. Most of the waste generated by a typical business is recyclable. Often over 60% of an office building's refuse is paper or other recyclable fiber products. It also helps to reduce or reuse at every opportunity.
Recology's recycling services include:
Free recycling service for all commercial customers. Your refuse bill includes all recycling costs. You will be provided enough free recycling containers for you and your tenants to recycle 50% of all your waste. No extra charge for your recycling bins!
A single recycling container for all recyclable materials. Recycling is easier than ever. Businesses will now be able to put all recyclables - cardboard, paper, plastic, glass, aluminum, tin and bimetal cans - mixed together in one recycling container. No more employee time spent sorting recyclables.
A selection of different-sized bins and automated cans for recycling. Recology offers a variety of sizes of recycling containers to meet your needs and space requirements. If space restrictions do not allow for a dumpster, contact Recology at (800) 243-0291 who can provide 68- or 95-gallon rolling carts and multiple pickups each week for these smaller containers.
Optional free weekly yard waste collection. Recology will provide free yard waste collection upon request by businesses.
Planning and education assistance. Businesses will receive ample support to implement recycling programs. In the coming months, city and hauler representatives will visit many businesses to help determine the best size, location and number of recycling containers needed to divert 50% of a facility's waste and easily integrate recycling into its operations. Recycling training also will be provided to employees.
Multi-Family Services
Recycling saves you money and pleases your tenants. The City receives many calls from tenants of multifamily properties requesting recycling, and the new service makes it possible to provide this popular service to all at no cost. By increasing the quantity of materials you recycle, you may be able to reduce your waste collection needs - as well as your waste disposal bill. Recology offers a variety of services to make recycling easy and convenient. These services include:
Free recycling with no price increase. You will be provided enough free recycling containers for you and your tenants to recycle a minimum of 50% of all your waste.
Mixed recycling. Your tenants will now be able to mix all recyclables - cardboard, paper, junk mail, plastic, glass, aluminum, tin and bimetal cans - together in one recycling container. No need to find space for multiple containers to separate recyclables! Research shows that mixed recycling collection yields a higher volume of recyclable materials and increases participation in recycling programs.
A selection of different-sized bins and automated cans for recycling.
Recology offers a variety of sizes of recycling containers to meet your needs and space requirements. Where space restrictions do not allow for a dumpster, the hauler can provide 68- or 95-gallon rolling carts. If necessary, these smaller containers may even be picked up more than once each week.
Optional free weekly yard waste collection. Recology will provide free yard waste collection upon request.
Planning and education assistance. Multifamily properties can get assistance in implementing recycling programs. In the coming months, city and hauler representatives will visit many sites and help educate tenants about how to recycle - and particularly about what and how to recycle, as well as the importance of not contaminating recyclables. Staff also will be available to work directly with facilities that request additional assistance.