Multifamily Services
Acceptable Materials & Guidelines for Weekly Recyclables, Organics, and Landfill Waste – Multifamily Service Guide
Blue Recyclables Cart or Bin
Place recyclable materials into blue carts and bins, or split carts per container instructions.
Blue Side: Glass, Metal, and Plastic
- Bottles and jars
- Food and beverage cans
- Aerosol cans (empty)
- Aluminum foil
- Scrap and cast aluminum (40 lbs or less)
- Bottles, jars, tubs, and trays
Yellow Side: Paper, Cardboard, Fiber
- Corrugated cardboard and paper boxes
- (Excess cardboard can be taken to free cardboard only dumpsters located throughout Windsor.)
- Catalogs, magazines, junk mail, and phone books
- Newspaper (including inserts)
- Shredded paper (contained in a clear plastic bag)
- Gable top cartons, juice boxes, and aseptic cartons
EMPTY AND CLEAN MATERIAL ONLY. NO PLASTIC BAGS,PLASTIC WRAP, OR STYROFOAM. NO CERAMICS OR GLASS DISHWARE. NO ORGANIC, GARBAGE, OR HAZARDOUS WASTE. DO NOT BAG RECYCABLES.
Green Organics Cart
Gray Landfill Cart
Please Place in your Organics Cart
- Food Scraps
- Fruits and vegetables
- Dairy products
- Bread and pasta
- Coffee grounds and tea leaves
- Meats and bones
- Food-Soiled Paper
- Napkins, paper towels, and paper bags
- Coffee filters and tea bags
- Wood utensils
- Yard Trimmings
- Grass clippings and plant cuttings
- Leaves
- Flowers
- Twigs and small branches
- Small untreated wood scraps
Please Place in your Landfill Cart
- Plastic bags, film, wrappers, and bubble wrap
- Compostable plastics
- Styrofoam/ Polystyrene
- Pet waste and diapers
- Plastic coated paper products
- Painted wood
- Damaged textiles, dishware, and household items
- Clothes hangers
- Plastic utensils and straws
- Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
NO COMPOSTABLE PLASTICS, PLASTIC COATED PAPER CONTAINERS, RECYCLABLEMATERIALS, OR GARBAGE WASTE. NO DIRT, ROCK, OR CONCRETE. NO PET WASTE.
NO RECYCLABLE, ORGANIC, OR HAZARDOUS WASTE. PLEASE CONSIDER DONATING REUSABLE ITEMS INSTEAD OF SENDING THEM TO THE LANDFILL.
Composting Tip: Keep a small compost pail in your kitchen to collect food scraps and food-soiled paper. When the pail is full, dump it into your green cart, rinse, and repeat!
Have a Large Item you need to Dispose of?
We offer free large item collection events twice a year for multi-family complexes. To schedule, please contact your property manager. Before disposing of items, consider donating any reusable goods to help reduce landfill waste.
Multifamily Rates
We have been able to have some great conversations with many of you and have been productively engaged in setting up systems that will work a bit better for your particular complex.
About Our Rates
Please note that billing statements for multi-family customers are sent out monthly.
SCRR’s competitive rates are adjusted annually based on a refuse rate index as provisioned in our contract with the Town of Windsor. This allows SCRR to cover costs to provide your waste services and maintain compliance with all regulations.
On-Premises Clean-Up
If you are a multi-family complex of five or more units and/or have centralized collection, please contact us to arrange for an on-premises clean-up. We will remove the equivalent of 0.5 cubic yards per dwelling unit of discarded materials (see right).
If you live in a small complex of two to four units and/or do not have centralized/shared collection, please click here to review program information.
Note: Please ensure all items discarded through this program are non-reusable. If they are reusable, please contact www.zerowastesonoma.gov for information on how to dispose of reusable items.
- Area and floor rugs
- Mattresses
- Appliances
- Electronic Waste (including all handheld electronic devices, computers, TVs, smoke detectors, electrical cables/cords, Christmas lights, hearing aids, GPS systems, stereos, office equipment, DVD players and VCRs)
- Universal Waste (including TVs, computers, batteries, mercury-containing thermometers and thermostats, and fluorescent lamps)
- Textiles
- Tires without rims
FAQs
Please see above to view the multi-family rates.
If your regular service day is on or after the holiday, then your collection will be delayed one day that week. Normal collection will resume the following week. There are no delays for Sunday holidays.
| Holiday | Day |
|---|---|
| New Year’s Day | January 1 |
| Independence Day | July 4 |
| Labor Day | 1st Monday in September |
| Thanksgiving Day | 4th Thursday in November |
| Christmas Day | December 25 |
Payments can be made in the following forms: one-time online payments by credit card, recurring electronic payments by credit card, recurring electronic payments by checking account debit (autopay), and by mail. Click here to make an online payment.
We accept checks and credit cards by mail. Please complete and include your remittance stub that is part of your invoice, place the remittance stub and check in the provided envelope, stamp your envelope, and place it in the mail. If you’ve lost your envelope, please address your envelope to:
PO Box 888894
Los Angeles, CA 90088-8894
Multi-Family: Sonoma County Resource Recovery bills multi-family complexes with centralized service monthly in advance. Any extra or non-recurring services are billed monthly in arrears.
Note: in October, multi-family and commercial customers will receive a bill from us on October 1st (for their October regularly scheduled services) and from the old provider (for their extras/special services rendered in September. We will be sending out an explanation in their first invoice).
Contact us if you would like to make changes to your services.
Please review the service guidelines for residential customers.
For additional information regarding the proper disposal of materials Sonoma County Resource Recovery does not collect, please go to Zero Waste Sonoma’s website.
Please review the above service guidelines for multi-family customers.
For additional information regarding the proper disposal of materials Sonoma County Resource Recovery does not collect, please go to Zero Waste Sonoma’s website.
Click here to make a one-time payment or set up recurring payments.
Note: if you select recurring payments we will also deliver your bills and any educational or instructional materials to your email. All educational and instructional materials sent by email and by post will always be posted and available online, so please do not worry about misplacing these.
If you are a multifamily complex of five or more units and/or have centralized collection, please contact us if you have any further questions.
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