Solano County
Upcoming Events
Free E-Waste Recycling Event – America Recycles Day® 2025
Holiday Schedule
Collection occurs on all holidays except Christmas Day and New Year’s Day. During these two weeks, if your service day falls on or after the holiday, collection will be delayed by one day. If either holiday falls on a weekend, the collection schedule will not change.
Mt. Diablo Resource Recovery is proud to provide comprehensive residential collection service bundles for one monthly price!
*delivery of recycling and organic bags is annually in January.
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Extra Curbside Services
On-Call Bulky Pickup: Residents may schedule a pickup of two (2) bulky items once per calendar year. Bulky items may include appliances, furniture, or electronics weighing no more than 200 lbs.
Household Battery Recycling: Scheduled in advance and placed in a clear plastic bag and to the side of their garbage cart, residents may place out household batteries for pickup.
Used Motor Oil Recycling Kits: Residents can request Used Motor Oil Recycling Kits, which include a free 6-quart oil container and motor oil filter sleeve. Once the kit is full, contact Customer Service to schedule pickup.
Compost Pickup: Scheduled in advance, residents can pick up one cubic yard of compost from our Processing Facility & Transfer Station. Please connect with Customer Service to schedule a pickup date and time.
Household Hazardous Waste Drop-off: Scheduled in advance, residents may drop off and safely dispose of automobile batteries, paint, antifreeze, and other household hazardous waste products at our Processing Facility & Transfer Station. Please connect with Customer Service to set an appointment.
Three (3) Landfill Passes: Customers may request up to three (3) landfill passes annually. With each pass, they can drop off up to three cubic yards of material at Recology Hay Road, located at 6426 Hay Road, Vacaville.
Holiday Tree Recycling: Scheduled in advance, holiday trees will be collected roadside on your regular collection day. Trees must be undecorated, unflocked, and cut into (3) three-foot sections with the stand removed and placed next to your garbage cart.
Take bare, uncut Christmas trees to our Processing Facility & Transfer Station during regular business hours. One tree per vehicle at no charge.
Billing and Rates
* Container availability is based on current bin inventory. Delivery of recycling and organics bags is annually in January.
Extra Services
Off-Day Pickups: Collection is available on days other than regularly scheduled collection for an additional fee. Please contact our office to place an off-day request.
Billing & Rates
Mt. Diablo Resource Recovery customers are on a monthly billing cycle with payment due upon receipt. Accounts without payment within 45 days of the statement date will be suspended. For more information regarding billing, visit our FAQs.
What Goes Where
Unacceptable Materials For All Collection Containers:
- Tires, automotive parts, and fluids
- Batteries
- Bricks, stones, gravel, concrete, and other building materials
- Electronics and small appliances
- Bulk items or furniture
- Fluorescent bulbs or tubes
- Gas, aerosol, propane tanks or cans
- Hazardous materials such as paints, pesticides, driveway sealant, treated wood waste, contaminated soils, or solids
- Other medical or special wastes
Recycling Mandates
SB 1383 SHORT-LIVED CLIMATE POLLUTANT REDUCTION STRATEGY: The State has committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, improving human health, and creating clean jobs that support resilient local economies. Implementing the statewide plan under SB 1383 will reduce short-lived, harmful super pollutants with significant warming impacts and is essential to achieving California’s climate goals. Click here to view our webpage dedicated to the legislation.
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SB 1383 SHORT-LIVED CLIMATE POLLUTANT REDUCTION STRATEGY: The State has committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, improving human health, and creating clean jobs that support resilient local economies. Implementing the statewide plan under SB 1383 will reduce short-lived, harmful super pollutants with significant warming impacts and is essential to achieving California’s climate goals. Click here to view our webpage dedicated to the legislation.
AB 341 MANDATORY COMMERCIAL RECYCLING: As of July 1, 2012, California requires all businesses that generate 4 or more cubic yards of garbage a week and 5 units or more multifamily dwellings to recycle.
AB 827 COMMERCIAL ORGANICS & RECYCLING BINS: As of July 1, 2022, businesses subject to AB 1826 and AB 341 must provide customers with easily accessible recycling and organics collection containers to sort materials generated on the premises.
AB 1826 COMMERCIAL ORGANICS: Starting January 1, 2020, all generators of 2 cubic yards or more of garbage, recycling, and compost combined per week are required to recycle organic waste. Organic waste includes food scraps, soiled paper products, yard trimmings, and landscape materials. Multifamily dwellings, 5 units or more, do not need food-waste recycling on-site but must recycle their landscape waste.
Scheduled in advance, our unincorporated Solano County customers can bring their HHW to our Recycling Center & Transfer Stations. Please contact Customer Service to schedule a date and time for drop off.
Sharps: State laws make it illegal to dispose of home-generated sharps, and proper disposal is required.
Safely dispose of unwanted sharps for free with the secure Med-Project mail-back program.
Pharmaceuticals: Safely dispose of unwanted meds for free with the secure Med-Project mail-back program.
Depending on the item, retailers such as Best Buy, Apple, and Staples have tech-back mail-in or drop-off programs to accept small electronics for FREE or a small fee.
Due to special handling requirements, we can also pick up electronics with a separate truck for a fee.
Contaminated & Overloaded Container Policy
For residential customers, there is a surcharge of $50 per contaminated or overloaded cart. For multifamily and commercial customers, there is a surcharge of $75 per cart and $150 per bin. The fee will automatically apply to the account after the 2nd notice and each subsequent infringement.
Multifamily and Businesses, MDRR will provide copies of each notice issued to the customer for Prohibited Container Contaminates/Overloaded, as well as the date of issue, the customer’s name and service address, a photo of the contamination and reason(s) for the issuance.
Municipal Codes
Mt. Diablo Resource Recovery Local Office
Solano County
100 Main St, Rio Vista, CA 94517
Phone: (707) 374-5644
Office business hours are Monday through Friday from 8 AM to 5 PM.
Please note our offices are closed from 12-1 for lunch.