Republic Services of Stockton, CA
Republic Services provides recycling and waste collection services for residential and commercial accounts for Stockton, CA in San Joaquin County. We offer one-stop shopping for all of the city's waste removal needs. Although we specialize in recycling and solid waste collection, our services go far beyond just emptying the trash bins.
Stockton customer service
Monday – Friday, 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
1145 W. Charter Way
Stockton, CA 95206
Holiday schedule
We observe the following holidays:
New Year’s Day
Christmas Day
If your pickup day falls on one of these holidays, it will be delayed by one day.
How to avoid an overage or contamination fee
surcharges begin 3/1/2021
To avoid additional charges, keep your recycling and organics carts clear of contamination and ensure all container lids are closed. Please download the Acceptable/Unacceptable list below.
Organics update (food waste & green waste) SB 1383
SB 1383 (Short-Lived Climate Pollutant Reduction Strategy) went into effect January 1, 2022. This law requires Organic waste to be diverted from landfills. Commercial customers are encouraged to reach out to our Recycle Coordination team at Recycle209@republicservices.com to get started with a food waste and/or recycling program today.
More information will be provided for residential customers soon.
Watch: SB 1383 organics education
View these short videos to understand how SB 1383 organics regulations may affect you.
What is SB 1383?
Organic waste recycling
Residential -
How do I comply?
Commercial -
How do I comply?
Residential -
What happens after pickup?
Commercial -
What happens after pickup?
Newsletters
Additional resources
Click on an image below to download your resource guide.
Recycling tips (English)
Recycling tips (Spanish)
Organic waste tips
In-yard service application
Courtesy vacancy credit
AB 1826 resources
Mandatory Organics Recycling for all commercial and multi-family complexes that have over 2 cubic yards of waste.
AB 1826 diversion certification form
AB 1826 compliance information
How can we help?
See our FAQs for more details on the proper disposal of household hazardous waste (HHW), motor oil, electronics/e-waste, paint, and more.
Recycling simplified videos
Check out these 15-second videos for quick tips on recycling basics.
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
Take a virtual field trip
Take your students on a virtual field trip of how a recycling center and a modern landfill works. These videos are designed to inform specific lessons in 3rd-5th grade, 6th-8th grade, and 9th-12th grade, but can also be used outside of those lessons to take your students on a journey through the process!
Recycling center video tour
3rd - 5th grade video is featured below
FAQs
Collection Guidelines & Reporting an Issue
Residents
- Face carts toward the street with wheels against the curb or gutter the night before or by 5:00 am on your scheduled service day.
- Allow at least three feet between carts and 6 feet between carts and other objects (mailboxes, trees, basketball hoops, cars, etc.)
- Make sure lids are securely shut--materials should not extend beyond the container rim.
- There are several ways to handle extra waste. See our FAQ on Bulky Waste Pickup.
- Items placed outside the cart cannot be serviced without an extra service sticker unless you contact our office prior to collection day. There may be a fee for this service.
- 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.Reasons waste may not be collected:
• Cart too far from the curb
• Cart facing the wrong direction
• Overfilled or overweight cart
• Insufficient space to service cart/car blocking the cart
• Unacceptable material in cart
• Incorrect cart size
If you feel your cart was missed in error, please call Customer Service at 209-466-3604.
Please call Customer Service at 209-466-3604 or use the
Please find the
- City streets are swept every other week the day after your collection day January – September.
- City streets are swept weekly after your collection day October – December.
- Parked vehicles and carts must be moved on the day of sweeping to ensure complete sweeping.
We offer a 10% discount to senior citizens over the age of 65. Please contact our office at 209-466-3604 for information on how to apply.
Additional discounts are available from the City of Stockton for low-income seniors and low-income disabled persons. Please contact the City of Stockton directly at 209-937-8295 for more information.
• Maximum 3 months per year.
• Vacancy credit is only for properties that are unoccupied during the credit period. No credit will be issued if any of the carts are set out during the registered dates.
• Contact is required at the end of each month a credit is requested.
For additional information, call Customer Service at 209.466.3604.
Collection service is offered at a location other than curbside for a monthly fee. There will be no charge for this side yard service with official documentation for any medical disability or frailty.
Please call Customer Service at 209-466-3604.
Recycling Questions
Ensure items are empty, clean, and dry.
Cardboard & Paper
- Brochures
- Catalogs
- Envelopes
- File folders
- Greeting cards
- Junk mail
- Magazines
- newspaper
- Office paper
- Paperback books
- Phone books
Glass
Recycle clear and colored glass
Plastics
Recycle plastic containers #1 through #7.
Metal Cans
Recycle all food and beverage metal cans—steel, tin, bi-metal, and aluminum.
- Batteries
- Ceramics (dishes, etc.)
- Clothing (please consider donating)
- Construction waste
- Disposable diapers
- Drinking glasses
- Electronics or e-waste
- Food waste
- Garden hoses or other "tangler" items (wires, string lights)
- Hazardous waste
- Light bulbs
- Mirrors
- Pizza boxes
- Plastic bags
- Plastic wrap
- Pots or pans
- Scrap metal
- Polystyrene (Styrofoam®)
- Wax paper
- Window or safety glasses
- Yard waste
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).
Yard debris
- Flower trimmings
- Grass cuttings
- Leaves
- Tree trimmings (twigs/branches must be 4 ft or less in length, and less than 6 inches in diameter)
- Weeds
Unacceptable Materials for Organics Cart:
- Bamboo
- Burn material or ash
- Concrete
- Dead animals
- Dirt
- Dog poop, manure, or pet waste from any animal
- Diapers
- Food-Soiled Paper (Napkins and paper towels, uncoated paper: plates, cups, bowls & pizza boxes)
- Garbage
- Glass, Metal, Plastic
- Hot ashes or briquettes
- Large amounts of soil or sod
- Lawn sod
- Oleanders
- Palm fronds
- Plastic bags, or plastic of ANY kind
- Recyclable materials
- Rocks
- Sand
- Wood that has been treated, coated, or painted
- Wood from construction projects
- Particleboard
These items are accepted in the landfill/trash cart:
- Broken dishware
- Chip bags
- Diapers
- Juice pouches
- Packing peanuts
- Pet waste - double-bagged is preferred
- Plastic bags
- Plastic utensils
- Polystyrene food trays or containers
- Other trash (hoses, wires, tanglers)
- Snack wrappers
Unacceptable Materials for the Landfill Cart:
- Batteries
- Construction materials
- Electronic/e-waste
- Fluorescent bulbs
- Hot ashes
- Household hazardous waste
- Needles and Medical Sharps
- Tires
- Used motor oil/oil filters
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.
From October until December, we will collect up to 5 additional 30-gallon bags of leaves every week at no charge.
Extra service stickers are not needed for this leaf service.
Republic Services collects Christmas trees curbside for 3 weeks starting the first Monday AFTER December 25.
If your tree is taller than 6 feet, it must be cut in half to be collected (no artificial trees).
Artificial and flocked trees must be cut and placed in the trash cart.
Special & Household Hazardous Waste
Clean Sweep/Bulky Item Collection Services
- Residents and multi-family dwellings are provided one free bulk waste pickup annually.
- Call 209-466-3604 to schedule your appointment from February through October.
- Additional paid bulk waste pickup is available year-round for a fee.
Next to your recycling cart, place motor oil in a one-gallon, clear plastic milk jug with a screw-on lid, taped shut. Place well-drained oil filters in a sealed, clear plastic zipper bag and put them next to your recycling cart.
Visit
The California Green Building Standards Code (Cal Green) applies to all cities in California and mandates as of January 1, 2017, that all new building construction develop a waste management plan that includes diversion of at least 65% of construction and demolition material from landfills, through recycling and or reuse.
Please visit
Batteries should not be placed inside any residential cart. Place household batteries in a small plastic bag on top of your recycling cart.
For additional information on the proper disposal of batteries, please visit
Please visit
For program details and locations, you can also visit
Medical sharps should never be placed into a household or public waste or recycling containers. All sharps should be placed into a SHARPS disposal container immediately after use to reduce the chance of injuries caused by loose sharps.
Medical sharps that are improperly disposed of can injure anyone that comes in contact with your trash including Republic Services crews and may pose a public health hazard.
Please visit
You may also visit
No.
Republic Services does not collect or accept hazardous waste or medical waste.
To find a drop-off location near you, please visit
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.
To find a drop-off location near you, please visit
Multi-Family Recycling Information
Cardboard should be flattened before being placed in the recycling cart/bin.
Business Recycling & Organic Bins
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 organics collection service; businesses and multi-family properties that generate 4 or more cubic yards of solid waste per week must have organics collection service.
Materials that must be composted include food waste, green waste, landscape and pruning waste, non-hazardous wood waste, and food-soiled paper.
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
California's Mandatory Commercial Recycling and Organics Waste Recycling Law
In October 2014 Governor Brown signed AB 1826 Chesbro (Chapter 727, Statutes of 2014), requiring businesses to recycle their organic waste on and after April 1, 2016, depending on the amount of waste they generate per week. This law also requires that on and after January 1, 2016, local jurisdictions across the state implement an organic waste recycling program to divert organic waste generated by businesses, including multifamily residential dwellings that consist of five or more units (please note, however, that multifamily dwellings are not required to have a food waste diversion program). Organic waste (also referred to as organics throughout this resource) means food waste, green waste, landscape, and pruning waste, nonhazardous wood waste, and food-soiled paper waste that is mixed in with food waste. This law phases in the mandatory recycling of commercial organics over time, while also offering an exemption process for rural counties. In particular, the minimum threshold of organic waste generation by businesses decreases over time, which means an increasingly greater proportion of the commercial sector will be required to comply.
Effective December 31, 2020, businesses with more than 2 cubic yards of solid waste per week are required to recycle their food waste. Please call 209-466-5192 to learn about the food waste recycling program.
A Recycling Coordinator is available to meet with you at your City of Whittier business and customize a program. Please call 209-466-5192 to ask for Recycling Coordinator's assistance.
Dumpsters
- Debris boxes 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.
- Please call 209-466-3604 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)
