Welcome to Republic Services of Fresno County, CA
Republic Services of Fresno County provides high-quality solid waste, recycling, transfer, and disposal services to residential and commercial customers. Our mission is to provide industry-leading solid waste and environmental services that exceed our customers’ highest expectations. We offer a safe, respectful, and rewarding workplace for our employees as we continue to develop a company dedicated to excellence, environmental responsibility, ethical behavior, and increasing shareholder value.
Fresno County, CA customer service
559-275-1551
Monday – Friday, 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Republic Services of Fresno
5501 N Golden State Blvd
Fresno, CA 93722
Holiday schedule
We observe the following holidays:
New Year's Day
Memorial Day
Independence Day
Labor Day
Thanksgiving Day
Christmas Day
Please note if your service falls on one of these days your service will be delayed by one day. If the holiday falls on a Saturday or Sunday, there will be no delay of service.
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Kid's corner
Trash day maze
Help the truck driver navigate his route to pick up the neighborhood’s trash and recycling. Download
Electronics word search
Our electronics are tangled. Can you help find which electronics are recyclable? Download
Outdoors bingo
Take a walk around your neighborhood with this Bingo sheet. Find four in a row! Download
FAQs
Collection Guidelines & Reporting an Issue
Residents
- Face carts toward the street with wheels against the curb or gutter the night before or by 6:00 on your scheduled service day.
- Allow at least two feet between carts and 5 feet between carts and other objects
- Make sure lids are securely shut--materials should not extend beyond the container rim.
- There are several ways to handle extra waste. You may schedule a Bulk Item Pick-Up, or if you regularly have extra waste, consider upsizing your landfill cart.
- If containers are not set out on collection day, customers have the option to wait until the next week for pickup or to request a return trip pick-up
- Return trip service is subject to an additional charge.
- Carts not placed out for collection are not eligible for credit.
- Do not place hot ashes, dirt, rock, concrete, or hazardous items in your carts.
Apartments & Businesses
Containers must be easily accessible – if containers are blocked (ex. by parked cars), we will not be able to service the container and you may need to pay an additional charge if you request a return trip pick-up.Extra Waste
Containers filled above the rim, refilled or compacted containers, or additional waste beyond the service subscription level, are considered “extra” waste and are subject to an additional charge. Please call customer service at 559-275-1551 to adjust your service level.
- If you are a commercial customer, please fill out the Fresno County, CA customer support request form below.
- All Residential customers, please contact customer service at (559) 275-1551 to start new service.
Recycling Questions
- Newspaper (including inserts, coupons, and store advertisements)
- Chipboard
- Corrugated cardboard
- Mixed wastepaper (including office paper, computer paper, magazines, junk
mail, catalogs, Kraft bags and Kraft paper, paperboard, egg cartons, phone
books, brown paper, grocery bags, colored paper, construction paper,
envelopes, legal pad backings, shoe boxes, cereal, and other similar food
boxes)
- Glass containers (including brown, clear, and green glass bottles and jars)
- Milk, soy and juice cartons
- Aluminum (including beverage containers, food containers, small scrap metal)
- Steel or tin cans
- Scrap metal (ferrous and non-ferrous)
- All plastic containers #1 through #7
Unacceptable Materials:
- Candy wrappers/bags
- Paper towels
- Tissues (Puffs, Kleenex, etc.)
- Toilet paper
- Foil wrap with food inside
- Cartons/bottles with liquid
- Polystyrene foam (peanuts, egg cartons)
- Plastic bubble wrap
- Plastic wraps (Reynolds, Saran, etc.)
- Cat litter
- Plastic/rubber toys
- Textiles (clothing, fabrics, etc.)
- Disposal plates, cups, utensils, etc.
- Disposable diapers/wipes
- Plastic hampers, baskets, and crates
- Plastic or rubber hoses
**Medical waste (syringes, needles, tubes, bags)
**Motor oil, antifreeze or liquid-filled containers
- Foul materials of any sort
- Kitchen dishes, glasses or flatware
- Mirrors
- Ribbons, bow, tape, rubber bands
**The Fresno County Regional Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) Facility accepts many hazardous materials. The facility is located on the American Avenue Disposal Site at 18950 W. American Avenue, Kerman, CA 93630 and is open most Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. By appointment, qualifying small businesses can drop off accepted materials on Fridays.
Small business customers only pay the cost of disposal. Visit www.fresnocountyca.gov/hhw, or contact the Resources Division at 559.600.4259.
Small business customers can make appointment by contacting 877.235.3005.
Non-recyclables contaminate recycling loads, and need to be removed during the sorting process. Some items may also contaminate clean recyclable items (ex. pasta sauce jar with sauce still in it, can soak into clean office paper which is then no longer recyclable either).
If our drivers notice a lot of contamination in your recycle cart or bin, we may not be able to service it as recycling and may tag it to have it serviced as trash (in which case you may be charged).
Organic Waste Recycling
- Whole fruit and fruit peelings
- Whole vegetables and vegetable peelings
- Bread and grain products
- Pasta and rice products
- Eggshells and nutshells
- Meat scraps, dairy products in small quantities only
- Plant and flower materials
- Grass and yard trimmings
- Tree and shrub prunings, excluding large stumps
- Christmas trees, cut into two-foot sections
- Untreated wood materials
- Greasy pizza boxes
- Household waste
- Polystyrene foam
- Palm fronds (branches)
- Animal waste
- Concrete
- Dirt
- Plastic bags
- Treated wood
- Rocks
Compostable plastics are NOT allowed in the organics cart.
- The compost facility is not able to accept other “compostable plastic” items (such as corn-based utensils, Green Strip cups, etc.) even if they are BPI-Certified, because these items do not break down fast enough or completely.
- Compostable plastics are also not recyclable. These items need to be thrown in the landfill.
Special & Household Hazardous Waste
Pursuant to the California Waste Management Act of 1989 (Public Resources Code §§ 40000 et seq.), the County of Fresno is required to prepare, adopt and implement source reduction and recycling plans to reach landfill diversion goals. Debris from construction, demolition, and renovation of buildings represents a particularly suitable portion of the volume of waste presently coming from the County of Fresno for recycling and reuse.
Prior to starting a Covered Project, an applicant, except when using an Authorized C&D Debris Collector, shall submit a complete Waste Management Plan to the Compliance Official. An applicant that chooses to utilize an Authorized C&D Debris Collector to haul, process, and dispose of all C&D debris from a project shall be exempt from the Waste Management Plan requirements of Section 6.3.1.06 and the reporting requirements of Section 6.3.1.07 (CMC).
Find locations throughout the County of Fresno and the 15 cities for locations to drop off your HHW. Please remember to call the locations to make sure that the material is accepted prior to drop off.
Fresno County, in partnership with the 15 incorporated cities throughout Fresno County, offers a program to County residents known as the Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) Network. The HHW Network is a collection of local drop-off sites that collect the five most common types of HHW: paint, household batteries, sharps, fluorescent tubes and bulbs, and e-waste. Network sites are limited to household quantities only and DO NOT accept business waste. For more information, please visit the County’s website at
Republic offers simple and convenient
Medicine and prescription drugs are hazardous and must not go in the trash, or be flushed or poured down the drain.
Syringes/needles should be placed in a hard, opaque plastic bottle or metal puncture-resistant container (no larger than 1 gallon) with a screw-on cap. When full, tape the cap or lid onto the container with duct tape.Write the word “Sharps on the outside of the container. Ask the supplier where were purchased if they will take back the sharps or drop them off at the locations below.
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Republic Services does not collect or accept hazardous waste or medical waste.
Find locations throughout the County of Fresno and the 15 cities for locations to drop off your HHW. Please remember to call the locations to make sure that the material is accepted prior to drop off.
Compact Fluorescent Lights (CFLs) or Fluorescent Tubes contain mercury, which is a hazardous chemical. It is illegal to place these, compact fluorescent lamps/bulbs, tubes, or high intensity light bulbs into a landfill.
How to dispose of light bulbs depends on which type of light bulb(s) you have. Some light bulbs contain hazardous substances such as mercury, lead and arsenic, which are harmful to human health and the environment, even in small quantities. Light bulbs containing these substances should never be placed in any carts, bins or dumpsters. See
The Fresno County On-Call Coupon Program has transitioned to a county-funded community cleanup drop-off event, and Republic Services® is offering unincorporated Fresno County residents the opportunity to dispose of large items and certain appliances at no cost during an upcoming cleanup event for your area.
Residents of unincorporated Fresno County must provide a county-issued coupon at the event to participate at no charge. Residents without a coupon may be responsible for the cost of disposal. Please contact the Fresno County Resources Division at 559.600.4259 to obtain a coupon prior to your scheduled date. Residents may only participate in one community cleanup event per year.
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Recycling conserves natural resources, like trees and water, and saves energy. Composting food scraps helps return valuable nutrients to the soil and reduces the amount of organic material ending up in landfills. Both are important in helping the City of Clovis meet county and state-mandated goals for reducing waste disposed of in local landfills.
Under AB1826, you must comply with recycling your green waste (landscaping) and organic waste material. Republic Services can provide you with a green waste bin or you can contact your landscapers to compost/recycle any green waste material hauled away. Please download the
California's Mandatory Commercial Recycling and Organics Waste Recycling Law
Composting for Business
Close nature's loop by composting your food scraps. Rather than going to the landfill, food scraps can be processed into compost, which enriches soil naturally.
Benefits of Composting:
- Potential to reduce disposal costs
- Improve your image as an environmental leader
- Reduce waste going to a landfill
- Prevent greenhouse gas emissions
Compostable materials:
- Food Scraps: fruits, vegetables, meat, seafood, dairy, eggs, breads, pastas, tea bags, coffee grounds
- Yard Trimmings and Wood: All plant anf floral material, wood produce crates, wood scraps, sawdust
Unacceptable materials:
- Plastics (all types)
- Styrofoam
- Glass
- Metals
- Grease trappings or tallow
- Liquids
- State Law Requires More Businesses to Compost, January 2019
- Under State of California laws AB 341 and AB 1826, certain businesses and institutions are required to recycle and compost. As of January 1, 2019, the State requires more sites to have organic collection services; businesses and multi-family properties that generate 2 or more cubic yards of recycling and organics combined per week must have organic collection services.
- Materials that must be composted include food waste, green waste, landscape and pruning waste, and non-hazardous wood waste.
- AB 341 has required recycling at many businesses since July 1, 2012. Materials that must be recycled include bottles, cans, paper, and cardboard.
- For more information about the State’s mandatory commercial recycling and composting laws, visit
https://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/recycle/commercial/ andhttps://www.calrecycle.ca.gov/recycle/commercial/organics .
Dumpsters
- Debris boxes, from 6 to 40 yards, are available for household remodeling, landscape projects, site clean-up, construction & demolition, and other projects.
- Rates for roll-offs vary depending upon box size and filled weight.
- Email
Customer Service here , or call 559-275-1551 for information or to place an order.
The following materials cannot be collected in roll-off containers:
- Asbestos
- Batteries
- Food waste
- Household hazardous waste
- Liquids
- Paint
- Oils
- Medical waste
- Tires
- Televisions
- Monitors and white goods (appliances) containing chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)
Pursuant to the California Waste Management Act of 1989 (Public Resources Code §§ 40000 et seq.), the County of Fresno is required to prepare, adopt and implement source reduction and recycling plans to reach landfill diversion goals. Debris from construction, demolition, and renovation of buildings represents a particularly suitable portion of the volume of waste presently coming from the County of Fresno for recycling and reuse.
Prior to starting a Covered Project, an applicant, except when using an Authorized C&D Debris Collector, shall submit a complete Waste Management Plan to the Compliance Official. An applicant that chooses to utilize an Authorized C&D Debris Collector to haul, process and dispose of all C&D debris from a project shall be exempt from the Waste Management Plan requirements of Section 6.3.1.06 and the reporting requirements of Section 6.3.1.07 (CMC).
