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El Sobrante Landfill is a Class 3 regional disposal facility permitted to accept up to 10,000 tons per day, seven days per week. It employs approximately 40 full-time employees. Landfill operations are overseen by the California Integrated Waste Management Board, and the Riverside County Department of Environmental Health.
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It is estimated that the average person produces almost 1,800 pounds of waste a year. If you ever wondered what you could do to reduce waste and help the environment, there’s an easy answer -- remember to practice the three “R’s”: Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle.
The most helpful thing we can do is to reduce the amount of waste we create. You can accomplish this by buying only what you can use and avoiding disposable items whenever possible. Rather than throwing items away, see if you can reuse a product or material, or pass it along to someone who can.
El Sobrante Landfill can help you with the third “R” – recycling! Come to El Sobrante to recycle your electronics, appliances, metal and carton items at no cost to you. This helps divert recyclable materials from the landfill that can be processed into new products we buy and use. Last year, El Sobrante was able to divert close to 300,000 pounds of electronic waste from the landfill.
Here at WM, we are improving our recycling operations in the Inland Empire – and cutting truck traffic at the same time. This month, we centralized all recycled materials collected from residential curbside pick-ups by bringing them to El Sobrante Landfill to be reloaded into transfer trailers and taken to a recycling plant in Pomona to be processed. This change is the equivalent of eliminating two truck routes a day or ten truck routes a week on our local highway, Interstate 15. This is an example of our constant pursuit to improve our operations by making them more efficient and minimizing the impact to the environment.
To help you recycle your electronics, appliances, metal and carton items, El Sobrante Landfill is open to the general public Monday through Saturday from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. For more information, you can contact Lily Quiroa at 951-277-5112.
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