On September 20, 2005, the Fresno City Council adopted a Mandatory Recycling Ordinance. The adoption, in effect, requires as of October 29, 2005, all residential and commercial property owners within the City limits to have recycling services. Failure to adopt and implement this ordinance would have resulted in a Compliance Order against the City with potential penalties of up to $10,000 per day for non-compliance.
Community Drop Off dates planned: January 20, 2007
7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
E-Waste Recycling at CSU, Fresno
Next e-waste drop-off: California State University, Fresno’s electronic waste (e-waste) recycling program will host a community collection day for e-waste on January 20, 2007. The collection will be held from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. in the university’s Parking Lot S, just south of Bulldog Stadium on Bulldog Lane (west of Cedar Avenue).
Central California residents may bring their old TVs, PC components, cell phones and other unwanted electronic products. It is against state law to dispose of those materials in regular trash bins.
TVs and computer monitors will be accepted without charge, while all other electronic waste will be subject to a fee of 25 cents per pound. Cash or checks with proper identification will be accepted. Drop-offs may not be left in the lot unless an attendant is present. E-waste loads greater than 500 pounds require prior notification and approval.
Fresno State’s e-waste collection program for Central California residents is in conjunction with Electronic Recyclers of America.
For questions, call 559.278.7422.
For more information contained in this release, please go to the following Web site: Community E-Waste Collection Program
California State University, Fresno is partnering with Electronic Recyclers International to provide a convenient monthly e-waste recycling solution for the general community of the Central Valley.
Hundreds of thousands of computers, monitors, televisions and other electronic items are replaced in California every year. This “e-waste” contains valuable materials and can be hazardous if not disposed of properly. When you “e-recycle”, you’re helping to protect our environment and create new jobs in California. It will be against the law for households to dispose of these materials in the regular trash as of Feb. 8, 2006.
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Past Events
Saturday, April 29, 2006, 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Roughly 30,000 pounds of e-waste accepted. 485 customers assisted.
Saturday, March 25, 2006, 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Roughly 40,000 pounds of e-waste accepted. 350 customers assisted.
Saturday, February 25, 2006 Only from 7:30 am to 3:30 pm. Over 57,000 pounds of e-waste accepted! 439 Customers assisted with little or no waiting!
Recycling Information for the City of Fresno: The City of Fresno Recycling Web site provides information about recycling bottles, cans, paper, green waste, and other recyclable materials. Call the recycling hotline at (559) 621-1111 for more information.
By sorting your trash, green waste and recyclingat home, at work and at play, you help the environment, ease the strain on landfills, reduce contamination and return recyclables to commerce, usually as part of other products.
The following links have been generously provided by Patti Toews of the City of Fresno Recycling Program.
Educational & Informational Presentations are available for
* Community Service Organizations
* Schools
* Events
The Recycling Program staff of the City of Fresno is pleased to offer the opportunity to schedule a presentation or participate in a community outreach event for your students or members of your service organization.
To schedule a presentation, please call the Recycling Hotline at 621-1111.
For schools, recycling presentations are available to all Pre-K, Elementary, Middle and High Schools and colleges within the City of Fresno. Interactive and entertaining presentations cover information on Recycling, Resources, Conservation and Protection of the Environment. Your students will learn about the importance of recycling and programs available to them in Fresno. City of Fresno staff is happy to work with you to relate the information and materials covered in your curriculum.
Did you know…..…..there are at least 5 toxic materials found in today’s electronic devices? Electronic devices often contain hazardous materials which should not be landfilled or incinerated. These toxins include: Lead, Mercury, Cadmium, Hexavalent Chromium, and Brominated Flame Retardants. In normal use, a computer, cell phone or other electronic device containing toxic materials is not dangerous. However, we can create risks to the environment and to our health when we dispose of these electronic devices. These risks are increased every day by the number of electronic devices we dispose of and the risks get worse when electronic devices are dumped or improperly disposed of.
In the Fresno-Clovis area, electronic devices like computer monitors, CRT screens, plasma screens, televisions, LCD screens, laptops, stereo systems, keyboards, cell phones, speakers, can be recycled at Electronic Recyclers of America, (559) 442-3960 or (800) 884-8466, 2860 S. East, Fresno, CA 93720 (off of Jensen & 99). Click here for map.
Many common products that we use in our daily lives contain potentially hazardous ingredients and require special care when disposed of. It is illegal to dispose of hazardous waste in the garbage, down storm drains, or onto the ground. Chemicals in illegally disposed hazardous waste can be released into the environment and contaminate our air, water, and possibly the food we eat. And by throwing hazardous waste in the garbage, you can cause additional hazards to your garbage handler.
The California Integrated Waste Management Board's Used Oil Recycling Program develops and promotes alternatives to the illegal disposal of used oil by establishing a statewide network of collection opportunities and undertaking outreach efforts to inform and motivate the public to recycle used oil.
RecycleStore showcases innovative recycled-content products and puts you in touch directly with their manufacturers. Whether you are a wholesale buyer or an individual consumer, use this catalog to discover a variety of quality recycled-content products designed with your needs in mind! In fact, some manufacturers can personalize their products to your specifications.
When we hear the term "green living," many of us think of the outdoors - trees, mountains and lawns. In fact, green living can start indoors by choosing recycled plastic products, finding new and creative uses for old items, and cutting back our use of natural resources. Green living is best defined as protecting the environment by conserving and effectively using resources.
A glass container is made of the simplest ingredients - silica sand, soda ash and limestone. When used glass is crushed, it returns virtually to its natural state. It is inert, non-toxic and can't contaminate the environment even when disposed of in landfill sites. But there is also no reason why glass containers should ever take up valuable landfill space when they can be used, over and over again.
Glass is 100% recyclable - it can be recycled indefinitely to make new glass. The glass recycled in a jam jar today can be a juice bottle next month, then a coffee jar, a milk bottle, a pickle jar, a ketchup bottle, and on and on forever.
The goal should be the recycling of all glass food and beverage containers, so that the only new glass made is to meet increasing market growth for the products they contain.
Anything made of aluminium can be recycled repeatedly, not only cans, but aluminium foil, plates, and pie moulds, window frames, garden furniture and automotive components are melted down and used to make similar products again. The recycling of aluminium requires only 5% of the energy to produce secondary metal as compared to primary metal and generates only 5% of the green house gas emissions.
Pick up illegally dumped tires within the City of Fresno, or call Code Enforcement at 621-8473
Recycling Information for the County of Fresno For information about recycling in the county please call (559) 262-4259.
For information on the next Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) Drop-Off Event, call (559) 262-4259.
"Turning It Around," a comprehensive, 68-page directory of recylers, is available from the County of Fresno, Resources Division, Department of Public Works and Planning, 2220 Tulare Street, Sixth Floor, Fresno, CA 93721-2104, phone (559) 262-4259.
To find a recycling drop-off location near you, or to learn about curbside pickup, enter your zip-code or select your county in the search box. If you don't find any recycling centers in your zip code, type in a neighboring zip code.
Earth911. Information about recycling, including the recycling of motor oil, computers, hazardous waste; also, water and air quality, composting, innovative technologies, environmental education, and more.
The Internet Consumer Recycling Guide.This recycling guide provides a starting point for consumers in the USA and Canada searching the net for recycling information. The information is for regular folks with regular household quantities of materials to recycle. The goal is to help make recycling so easy and automatic that it blends into the flow of everyday life.
Amazing Recycling Facts. Did you know...? -- A littered aluminum can will take 300 years to disintegrate.
-- One recycled aluminum can has enough energy to power the average TV set for 108 minutes.
-- It takes 95 percent less energy to produce new aluminum from discarded aluminum pop cans than from from raw materials.
-- The recovery rate on recycled aluminum is 99 percent.
-- A littered glass bottle will take 1 million years to disintegrate.
. . . and many more interesting facts about recycling!
SOME INTERESTING TOURS AND LINKS:
The Freecycle Network™ is based on the idea that the best way to reduce waste in a community is to not throw it away to begin with! The Freecycle Network is made up of many individual groups across the globe. It's a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. When you want to find a new home for something -- whether it's a chair, a fax machine, piano, or an old door -- you simply send an e-mail offering it to members of the local Freecycle group. Our main rule: Everything posted must be free, legal, and appropriate for all ages.
A mystery! You narrow the suspects to three areas of the school: classrooms, the lunch room and the janitor's closet. Where do you want to investigate first?
Check out all the neat things there are to do at EPA's Recycle City!
To get started, just click on any section of Recycle City that you want to explore, or click on the Dumptown Game. Create your own Recycle City scavenger hunt or go to the Activities area and see other ways you can put Recycle City to use.
RECYCLING IN FRESNO 
Educational & Informational Presentations are available for
