Recology Auburn Placer provides residential and commercial yard waste, recycling, and garbage collection to the communities of Auburn, Colfax, Rocklin, the Town of Loomis, and Unincorporated Placer County. The City of Roseville has its own waste services division. The City of Lincoln is served by Waste Management, Inc.

Sharps

All sharps waste must be transported to a collection center in an approved sharps container. Home-generated sharps waste includes hypodermic needles, syringes, and lancets that are used for medical purposes. Sharps in approved biohazard containers can be brought to the Recology Auburn Placer Transfer Station for safe disposal.

Visit the Placer-Nevada Rx Drug Safety Coalition for additional free year-round medical drop-off sites.

Sharps Mail-Back Service
Visit CalRecycle for a list of companies that are authorized to provide sharps waste mail-back services in California.

Web pages

• Main website - https://www.recology.com/recology-auburn-placer/
• Locations & Contact inf…

July 2024 update on SB1383

Nevada County jurisdictions are working out details to implement SB1383 and inform the public. Info will be added when available and confirmed. https://www.nevadacountyca.gov/3466/Organics-Recycling

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Waste Management provides a full range of residential and commercial solid waste collection services, including curbside pick-up, curbside recycling, environmental services, dumpsters and waste and recycling receptacles. Medication disposal available at 13083 Grass Valley Ave. location.

Home-Generated Sharps - https://www.wm.com/location/california/nevada_county/recycling/hhw.jsp

• Sharps include needles, syringes, pen needles & lancets.
• It is illegal to put these items in the trash or recycling. By law they must be transported in approved biohazard sharps containers, which are sold at pharmacies.
• Accepted (only in approved biohazard containers) at the McCourtney Road Transfer Station Household Hazardous Waste Facility, Km…

• Home - https://www.roseville.ca.us/government/departments/environmental_utilities/at_your_service/trash_and_green_waste#:~:text=The%20City%20of%20Roseville's%20Waste,recycling%2C%20and%20green%20waste%20annually.
• Household hazardous waste drop-off locations - https://wpwma.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Placer-Recycles_Resident-HHW_9.22_WPWMA-site.pdf

Western Placer Waste Management Authority (WPWMA) provides access to:

• Waste Disposal
• Household Hazardous Waste
• Recycling Buyback

WPWMA works with a contractor to provide these services:

• Recycling drop-off & buy-back
• Compost sales
• Commercial hazardous waste disposal

Web pages

• WPWMA -https://www.wpwma.ca.gov/
• Medical sharps disposal -https://wpwma.ca.gov/placer-recycles/sharps-keep-them-out/
• Contact -https://wpwma.ca.gov/about-us/contact-us/