New! Curbside Battery Recycling! How easy is that?

Oakland residents can now set out used batteries with the weekly garbage collection.
· Simply place your spent batteries in a sealed clear plastic bag, and set on top of your garbage cart.
· Put small photo and coin lithium batteries in a separate plastic bag with other spent batteries.
· It is unlawful to toss batteries into the garbage or recycling containers, please use this convenient new service responsibly.

Your WMAC garbage collector will put your batteries in a special bin on the truck separate from the garbage. Batteries will be sent to a battery recycling company that recovers the metal and chemical components in an environmentally safe process.

Burgundy Garbage Cart

Residential garbage is picked up once a week by Waste Management of Alameda County: (510) 613-8710.  To ensure pick-up, garbage should be placed on the curb by 6:00 am on your scheduled pick-up day.

To learn more about Garbage Service in Oakland, choose from these topics:

• Green cart - weekly yard trimmings and food scraps recycling
• Gray cart - weekly bottles, cans, jars, paper and cardboard recycling
• Used motor oil and oil filters - weekly collection for recycling
• Bulky pickup and recycling (household appliances and other bulky items)
• Holiday collection (what happens when your service day is also a holiday)
• Services for disabled and senior Oakland residents
• Discounted rates for low-income Oakland seniors
• Current residential garbage and recycling rates bill insert (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader )
• Complete rates for residences and businesses
• Information about who can legally haul solid waste in Oakland
• Holiday tree recycling each January 
• Blight - Business
• Blight - Residential
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