Tri-Cities Disposal & Recycling Service, Inc.
Recycle Your Jack O’ Lantern
Don’t trash your pumpkins! Tri-Cities customers can recycle carved or uncarved pumpkins in their mixed organics and food scraps carts. Your pumpkin, yard, and food waste will be turned into beautiful compost for farm fields and gardens. To purchase compost for your farm, yard, or garden, visit Atlas Organics at the Johnson Canyon Landfill in Gonzales.
No Painted Pumpkins
Remove Lights & Candles
2024/2025 Holiday Service Delays
Quick Link: 2024/2025 Holiday Mailer
Thanksgiving: Thursday & Friday collection will be delayed by one day
Christmas: Wednesday, Thursday & Friday collection will be delayed by one day
New Year’s Day: Wednesday, Thursday & Friday collection will be delayed by one day
If your collection day is on Friday, and there is a holiday service delay, we will service your residence or business on Saturday.
Don’t throw away your old carpets. You can recycle them!
Quick Link: Learn more about the Carpet Recovery program
Did you know you can recycle old carpets and padding? Carpet America Recovery Effort (CARE) has set up over 140 carpet recycling drop-off locations throughout the state, making it easy, cost-effective, and convenient for everyone to participate. Salinas Valley Recycles offers free carpet and pad recycling at their Madison Lane Recycling Center. Click here to learn more about this program.
Curbside Bulky Item Collection
Changes to California’s CRV Recycling Program
Beginning January 1, 2024, the State of California added glass wine and liquor bottles, wine and liquor pouches, boxes and cartons (bag-in-box), and large plastic juice containers to the CRV (California Redemption Value) program. This means a CRV deposit will be added to more of your purchases, and waste haulers and recyclers at beverage container recycling centers will accept more items. Some of these new items require special handling before you place them in your blue mixed recycling cart. Click here to visit our All About Recycling page to learn more about this expanded recycling program.
What Goes Where?
If you find trying to decide which items are recyclable and which items should go in the trash cart or dumpster confusing, you are not alone. Use the What Goes Where search to quickly answer most questions about where to put items in question. If you love the app, download it on your smartphone or device for quick information on the go.
Edible Food Recovery
Why waste food when you can share it? California State Law SB 1383 requires food businesses, grocery stores, restaurants, and hospitality venues of a certain size to make plans to donate still-edible food that will not be sold or consumed. Cities and agencies within Monterey County have been working hard to make this process as easy as downloading an app to put the word out to non-profit feeding organizations. For more information on how the FREE CareIt app works, click here to visit our partners at Salinas Valley Recycles.
How to Recycle Right
Tri-Cities Disposal & Recycling has partnered with our friends at Salinas Valley Recycles to create this video about “How to Recycle at Work.” The same rules and techniques for recycling at work apply at home. Remember, recycling only works if the materials are free of contamination. That means everything in your mixed recycling should be EMPTY, CLEAN, DRY, and LOOSE (no bags). Click on the video link below to learn more about recycling in the Salinas Valley.
How to Recycle at Work or Home (English)
Cómo Reciclar en el Trabajo o en Casa (español)
New! Multi-family Organics Recycling is Here!
Qualified multi-family (apartment) complexes must comply with state organics recycling laws (yard waste and food scraps). Contact us at 888-678-6798 to determine if your complex is required to participate in this program. Our team is ready to help you with an assortment of resources to help you establish a successful program.
Bag Your Trash!
Help our drivers keep your neighborhood clean on collection day! All trash placed in the trash carts and dumpsters must be bagged. Unbagged trash flies out of carts and dumpsters and is carried by the wind when the garbage truck collects them. Please be considerate of your neighbors and the environment and prevent this type of litter. Do not bag any items in your blue mixed recycling cart (Exception: Shredded paper can be placed in a clear plastic or paper grocery bag).
Does Your Team or Group Need Training?
Tri-Cities Disposal & Recycling offers special training for all of our customers. Click the button below to learn more about our free outreach and education services.
About Tri-Cities Disposal & Recycling Service
Tri-Cities Disposal & Recycling Service (TCDRS) provides the highest quality refuse and recycling collection services for the Salinas Valley cities of Gonzales, Greenfield, and Soledad, California. Our mission is to provide quality service while preserving resources and protecting the environment.
At TCDRS, we strive to meet local and global environmental challenges and proudly take our lead role. We encourage everyone to REDUCE the waste they make, REUSE and REPAIR items instead of purchasing new ones, and RECYCLE as much as possible. We encourage everyone to be creative and REPURPOSE what you have.
Explore this website to learn more about our services, what we are doing to be responsible stewards of the earth, and what you can do to live a more sustainable life.
Quick Links
2024 Residential Trash & Recycling Services Guide (Guía de Servicios Residenciales)
Salinas Valley Recycles Residential Guide to Recycling & Hazardous Waste
Residential Services
Residential Services
Residential Services
Standard residential services are provided to the cities of Gonzales, Greenfield, and Soledad.
In addition to our weekly curbside service, we offer free motor oil and filter collection in approved containers. We also offer one or more special annual cleanup events in all of the cities we serve.
Business Services
Business Services
Business, Commercial, and Multi-Family (Apartment) Services
Tri-Cities Disposal & Recycling Service offers a variety of refuse and recycling services for our commercial and multi-family (apartment) customers. For garbage collection service, customers can choose between 64 and 96-gallon cart services or 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6 cubic yard front-load garbage dumpsters. Blue cart mixed recycling and cardboard recycling services (where needed) are included with your service.
Construction Services
Construction Services
Construction Site Services - Roll-off Dropbox Service
Tri-Cities Disposal & Recycling Service offers roll-off debris box services (also known as dropbox service). These very large bins are often used for construction, remodeling, large cleanup, and demolition. We offer three different sizes: 20, 30, and 40 cubic yards. These boxes can handle a variety of refuse, recyclables, and construction and demolition debris.
