Proudly Serving San Bruno Since 1948
San Bruno Garbage Co., Inc. has provided residential garbage service to San Bruno since 1948. Our award winning curbside recycling program, which began in 1987 and has been a model for other communities throughout California, is a result of our community working together to save our environment. We also offer these same garbage and recycling services to commercial businesses throughout San Bruno.San Bruno Garbage Co., Inc. offers numerous programs including same day debris box service and front-end loader collection service to both residential and commercial customers.
San Bruno Garbage Co., Inc. offers another option to dispose of your debris. We own and operate our own Transfer Station where recyclable materials and refuse are processed, sorted, and loaded into long-haul trucks for transfer to recycling facilities or the landfill. The San Bruno Garbage Transfer Station is open to the public on Saturdays, from 8:00am to 3:00pm Disposal rates are posted at the Transfer Station on Saturdays. For more information, call a customer service representative at (650) 583-8536 or use our online contact form.
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THINK GREEN THIS HOLIDAY SEASON!
Statistics show that during the holidays household waste increases by 25%. From food waste to packaging, Americans generate an additional one million tons of garbage a week!
To help you reduce the amount of waste you generate this holiday season, we have the following recycling and waste reduction tips for you:
To help you reduce the amount of waste you generate this holiday season, we have the following recycling and waste reduction tips for you:
- Plan your shopping trips in a way to reduce the amount of traveling you do and try to avoid driving during commute times. Shopping in your hometown can help save gas, time and energy. If every family reduced gasoline consumption by one gallon (about 20 miles), we could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by one million tons!
- Consolidate your purchases into one bag, rather than getting a new bag at each store. Better yet, bring your own reusable tote bags when shopping!
- Reuse gift bags and gift boxes. They can be flattened for easy storage and reusing them will save you money too.
- Old maps, comic strips, brown paper bags decorated with stamps or children's artwork are fun and creative ways to wrap gifts, and you can do this year round!
- Be sure to recycle your wrapping paper this year! If your recycling containers are full, place extra paper in paper bags and set next to your recycling container on your recycling service day.
- Save a tree this season by using an artificial tree or purchasing a living tree. Living trees can be planted after the holiday and enjoyed throughout the year.
- Drop-off unwanted packing peanuts at a local mailing center. Check your phone book for mail center locations, or call the Plastics Council Peanut Hotline at 1-800-828-2214 for a list of businesses that will reuse them.
- If you receive a new appliance this Holiday, think about donating your old one, or posting it on San Bruno's Freecycle website. Freecycle provides an easy way to reuse items within our community!
NO WASTE GIFT GIVING IDEAS:
- Gift Certificates, Movie, Theatre or Concert Tickets
- Home baked goodies, made from your favorite family recipes!
- Ski Lift Tickets
- Amusement Park Tickets
- Magazine Subscriptions (a gift that gives all year long!)
- Reusable Grocery/Tote Bags
GOT PUMPKINS?Now that the Halloween candy is gone and you have baked all of your favorite pumpkin breads and pies, what do you do with your leftover pumpkins? Compost them of course!
Simply place pumpkins in your yard waste cart and set curbside on your regular yard waste collection day. San Bruno Garbage Company will make sure that your old pumpkins are composted and turned into a rich soil amendment that might even be used to grow pumpkins again next year!
You can help someone stay warm this winter. It's easy!
Donate your clean, gently used coats from infant to adult sizes...
Donate your clean, gently used coats from infant to adult sizes...
San Bruno Garbage Company is proud to support the
Coats for Kids
program, together with the City of San Bruno.
Thank you to everyone who donated a coat through our curbside collection and
drop-off locations. Donations of clean, gently used or new coats in children
or adult sizes are still being accepted. If you wish to make a donation please
call 650-616-7071 for more information.
The Coats for Kids Distribution will take place as follows:
DATE: Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008 3:00-6:00 p.m.
PLACE: Fireman’s Hall, 618 San Mateo Avenue, San Bruno, CA
For more information, please call the Coats for Kids Hotline at 650-616-7145.
DON'T GET STUCK WITH YOUR SHARPS!
Beginning on September 1, 2008, a new state law takes effect that will make it illegal to dispose of sharps waste in the trash or recycling containers. It requires that all sharps waste be transported to a collection center in an approved sharps container. Home-generated sharps waste includes hypodermic needles, syringes, lancets that are used for medical purposes. Improper disposal of sharps waste poses a threat to sanitation workers, adults, children and even pets.
Beginning on September 1, 2008, a new state law takes effect that will make it illegal to dispose of sharps waste in the trash or recycling containers. It requires that all sharps waste be transported to a collection center in an approved sharps container. Home-generated sharps waste includes hypodermic needles, syringes, lancets that are used for medical purposes. Improper disposal of sharps waste poses a threat to sanitation workers, adults, children and even pets.
WHAT SHOULD YOU DO WITH YOUR SHARPS WASTE?
Take-back Programs By Doctors, Pharmacies, Hospitals and Medical Clinics:
Place home-generated sharps waste in biohazard containers. The containers are available for purchase at local pharmacies and some office supply stores. Then contact your health care providers, local pharmacists, hospitals or clinics to ask if they offer a take-back program.
Mail Back Services:
Visit California Integrated Waste Board for a list of companies that are authorized to provide sharps waste mail back services in California.
Additional options may become available after the new law takes effect. For updates and information, please call our Customer Service Department at 650-583-8536.
San Bruno Garbage Service Wins State Waste Reduction Award
Each year California awards companies for their outstanding efforts to reduce waste and protect the environment. It's called the Waste Reduction Awards Program (WRAP), and is sponsored by the California Integrated Waste Management Board - the state's primary recycling agency and part of the Environmental Protection Agency. San Bruno Garbage Service has been recognized as a company that strives to reduce, reuse, recycle and buy recycle-content products as part of their environmentally preferable business practices.
Contact San Bruno Garbage Company to learn how to recycle and reduce waste at your workplace.
Visit the California WRAP Awards page to learn more about the WRAP program.
Each year California awards companies for their outstanding efforts to reduce waste and protect the environment. It's called the Waste Reduction Awards Program (WRAP), and is sponsored by the California Integrated Waste Management Board - the state's primary recycling agency and part of the Environmental Protection Agency. San Bruno Garbage Service has been recognized as a company that strives to reduce, reuse, recycle and buy recycle-content products as part of their environmentally preferable business practices.Contact San Bruno Garbage Company to learn how to recycle and reduce waste at your workplace.
Visit the California WRAP Awards page to learn more about the WRAP program.