About Our Services - City of Emeryville

Waste Management of Alameda County, Inc. and the City of Emeryville are working together to increase recycling participation and reduce materials destined to the landfill.

By practicing the 4Rs – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Rot - you can control the amount of waste generated. Here are a few tips to help you reduce waste: 

Reduce: Buy in bulk to avoid individual packages or products with excessive packaging. Whatever you don’t recycle or reuse is trash. What is trash?

Reuse: Avoid the use of disposable or single-use utensils, napkins, paper towels, and other disposable products. Buy durable items that can be reused over and over again. 

Recycle: Close the loop on recycling and buy products made with recycled materials. Items identified as containing “post-consumer” materials are made from things you tossed in your recycling cart or bin! What is recyclable?

Rot: Place your garden cuttings and food scraps in your green waste cart to be composted. What is compostable?

About Waste Management
Waste Management of Alameda County (WMAC) is a community-based provider of waste, recycling and composting services. We are closing the loop on waste – turning food scraps and yard waste into compost, lumber debris into mulch and landfilled waste into bio-fuel. This clean-burning fuel helps to power our new collection vehicles in Emeryville. Working together, we can achieve the City of Emeryville’s diversion goals and Climate Action Plan.