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Recycling in Santee, California

The city of Santee offers curbside recycling for a variety of paper, plastic and aluminum items. The trash collection service provides a gray cart for trash and a green cart for clean yard waste like grass clippings, leaves, branches and wood chips. Recyclable materials go in the blue recycling cart. You can put containers that carry a refundable deposit in the curbside recycling cart, but you will need to take them to a buyback center if you want to get your money back. State certified collection centers recycle motor oil in Santee.

Instructions

  1. Curbside Recycling

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      Place paper products like empty envelopes, colored paper, newspapers, magazines, phone books, paper egg cartons, paperback books and clean cardboard in the blue recycling cart. Dispose of paper napkins, paper towels, wax-coated paper milk cartons, paper tissue and soiled paper items in the trash.

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      Place glass bottles and jars in the recycling cart. Make sure the bottles are empty. Other glass items go in the trash.

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      Put empty aluminum cans and pie tins in the blue cart. Empty aerosol cans and tin cans may also be recycled. Do not recycle aluminum foil. Dispose of foil in the trash cart.

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      Recycle plastic beverage bottles that carry a recycling symbol with a number from one to seven. The recycling symbol looks like a triangle formed by three arrows. Recycle plastic containers other than beverage bottles if they have a recycling symbol with the number one or two.

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      Throw non-paper packaging materials like foam peanuts, bubble wrap and Styrofoam in the trash. Do not recycle plastic bags.

    Buyback Recycling

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      Visit the CalRecycle "Find a Recycling Center" web page. Select the "Recycling" tab under the "Information For..." heading near the top of the page.

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      Click on the "Beverage Containers" text link. Select "Recycle Beverage Containers for Cash" by marking the circle next to that choice.

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      Enter a Santee ZIP code in the ZIP Code box. A list of the recycling centers that are closest to Santee will open along with a map that shows the locations.

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      Click the text link for a recycling center to see a full address and days and hours of operation. Hovering your cursor over one of the red markers on the map and clicking the text link in the pop-up bubble will take you to the same information.

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      Take your aluminum cans and plastic bottles that are marked with "CA Cash Refund" or "CA CRV" to the recycling center. The center will weigh plastic and aluminum separately. Dividing cans and bottles by category before you go will save time at the recycling location.

    Used Motor Oil Recycling

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      Pour used motor oil into a plastic container that holds five gallons or less. Seal it so that it will not spill.

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      Visit the city of Santee "How to Recycle Used Oil!" web page for a list of state certified collection centers in the city. The city of Santee recommends that you call the oil collection center before you go. If you have more than five gallons of used oil be sure to ask what limit a particular center sets on the daily quantity an individual may drop off.

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      Take the oil to the drop off center. As of January 2011, you will receive 40 cents per gallon for the oil you turn in.

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