Underground Service Alert

USA North (Underground Service Alert) is a free notification service for homeowners and contractors who are going to perform any kind of excavation. Call 811 before you dig and find out if there are underground utilities at your site. Legislation in California makes it mandatory to call at least two days before digging.

Good Plumbing Practices

Help protect local waterways and San Francisco Bay through good plumbing practices and reduce pipe corrosion. Click HERE for information.

Republic Services

Contra Costa Green Business Partner

Get the recognition you deserve for conducting business in an environmentally friendly way. Take advantage of a simplified program that takes the guesswork out of complying with environmental regulations.
Visit the Green Business website for more information on becoming a new Green Business Partner in Contra Costa County.

Recycling…… It’s Good for Business….. It’s Good for the Environment

You can recycle a variety of paper in your mixed paper recycling dumpster.

• Newspaper and corrugated cardboard boxes.
• Computer, ledger and copy paper of all colors, junk mail, magazines and phone books
• Chipboard products such as the back of paper tablets and containers such as shoe and cereal boxes.

Metal, Glass,  Plastic Beverage Containers

Please place in your recycling cart all clean and dry glass, metal and plastic containers including:

• Beverage, soup and other food containers made of aluminum, tin and steel.
• Glass bottles and jars of all colors.
• All plastic containers with symbols #1 through #7. Remove tops before placing in the recycle cart.

Please no light bulbs, cookware, window glass or mirrors and no aerosol cans or aluminum foil.

Household Batteries and Fluorescent Bulbs

Recycling batteries and fluorescent bulbs prevents heavy metals and mercury from polluting the Bay Area’s Waterways. All types are recyclable, including alkaline (non-mercury), nickel-cadmium, nickel-iron, nickel metal hydride, lithium-ion, carbon-zinc (non-mercury) and zinc-air batteries such as, but not limited to, AA,AAA,C,D,9-volt and rechargeable (cell phones, toys, power tool batteries), standard 4-foot and 8-foot straight lamps and circular and tubular lamps that are being used in place of incandescent bulbs in household lighting fixtures.

These can be recycled at the Household Hazardous Waste Collection Facility, 4797 Imhoff Place, Martinez. Businesses are required to make an appointment. Click HERE for more information.