Diverting waste from your business can be as easy as green, blue and black. Composting in your green bin and placing recycling in your blue bin not only helps preserve resources and reduce pollution, but also lowers your waste management bills! Our landfills are quickly reaching capacity, and reducing the amount of waste you produce will help preserve the natural environment while saving you money.

You can reduce waste in your business by:

• Buying products that can be reused or recycled
• Buying products that contain less packaging
• Using reusable mugs, plates and silverware in the office instead of paper and plastic
• Keeping tupperware in the office that employees can bring to restaurants when purchasing lunch to go.
• Only buying the amount of products that you need, and no more
• Recycling and composting
• Reducing unsolicited junk mail by contacting the sender and removing your name. Find out more at the Bay Area Junk Mail Reduction Campaign and Green Dimes.
  

Trash pick-up services generally charge customers by number of trash bins, while recycling and composting bin pick-up is complementary. Reducing the amount of garbage in your trash bins and diverting it to reuse or recycling/composting will lower your bills. Please visit SF Garbage Rates to find out how you can decrease your impact on the environment while saving money. 

Not sure which items can and can not be placed in the green and blue bins? Check out our Blue and Green Bins List.

To find out where to recycle and properly dispose of just about everything from appliances to batteries to toxic chemicals, visit the SF Department of the Environment EcoFindeRRR

To recycle computers and electronics including cell phones and batteries, visit Green Citizen.

Used cooking oils clog sewers, constrict water flow when poured down drains and cost tax payers $3.5 million per year to unclog. If you’re a restaurant, visit SF GreaseCycle to have your waste oil picked up for FREE and turned into biodiesel, an environmentally friendly alternative to petroleum!

Contact Jaco Environmental to have your fridge or freezer picked up and recycled.

For hauling services, visit Blue Sky Hauling and EcoHaul, Inc..

If your businesses produces excess fabrics, paper, textiles, wood, or other reusable material, visit SCRAP to divert waste by donating your excess material to artists and educators.

To learn more about diverting waste, visit San Francisco's Zero Waste Program.