Tri-Cities Disposal & Recycling Service, Inc.

It’s Reuse, Recycle & Cleanup Event Season!

Gonzales, Greenfield & Soledad residential customers, get ready for your community's spring and summer cleanup events. This year, your city is purchasing a load of compost (made from your recycled yard waste and food scraps) to share with the community for use in your garden. The compost giveaway is first come, first served, while supplies last. Make sure to look for the event mailer in your mailbox for details on how to participate in the cleanup event and collect your compost at the event. Tri-Cities Disposal & Recycling customers can only participate in the event in the city where they live. Please bring your event flyer to the event as proof of residency! Click here to learn more about our special events.

Upcoming Events:
Greenfield—April 20, 2024
Soledad—May 18, 2024
Gonzales—June 29, 2024

Changes to California’s CRV Recycling Program

Beginning January 1, 2024, the State of California added glass wine and liquor bottles, wine and liquor pouches, boxes and cartons (bag-in-box), and large plastic juice containers to the CRV (California Redemption Value) program. This means a CRV deposit will be added to more of your purchases, and waste haulers and recyclers at beverage container recycling centers will accept more items. Some of these new items require special handling before you place them in your blue mixed recycling cart. Click here to visit our All About Recycling page to learn more about this expanded recycling program.

What Goes Where?

If you find trying to decide which items are recyclable and which items should go in the trash cart or dumpster confusing, you are not alone. Use the What Goes Where search to quickly answer most questions about where to put items in question. If you love the app, download it on your smartphone or device for quick information on the go.

How to Recycle Right

Tri-Cities Disposal & Recycling has partnered with our friends at Salinas Valley Recycles to create this video about “How to Recycle at Work.” The same rules and techniques for recycling at work apply at home. Remember, recycling only works if the materials are free of contamination. That means everything in your mixed recycling should be EMPTY, CLEAN, DRY, and LOOSE (no bags). Click on the video link below to learn more about recycling in the Salinas Valley.

About Tri-Cities Disposal & Recycling Service

Tri-Cities Disposal & Recycling Service (TCDRS) provides the highest quality refuse and recycling collection services for the Salinas Valley cities of Gonzales, Greenfield, and Soledad, California. Our mission is to provide quality service while preserving resources and protecting the environment.

At TCDRS, we take a leadership role as the communities we serve strive to meet local and global environmental challenges. We encourage every person to REDUCE the waste they create, REUSE items instead of purchasing what they don't need, RECYCLE as much as possible, and be creative in RE-PURPOSING what they already have.

Landfilling should be considered the last option when reducing, reusing, recycling, returning, refurbishing, repairing, and repurposing are not possible. Explore our website to learn more about what you can do to reduce your waste stream and what we can do together to care for our communities and the earth!

Quick Link Brochures & Documents for all Customers:

AB 341, AB 827 & SB 1383 Mandatory Recycling Laws:
Commercial Recycling, Provide Recycling Containers, Food Scraps Recycling & Commercial Food Recovery (en ingles y español)

2023 Residential Trash & Recycling Services Guide (Guía de Servicios Residenciales)

2022 Residential, Multi-family & Commercial Services Guide (Guía de Servicios Comerciales)

Dropbox Dimensions, Rates & Guidelines

2023/2024 Standard Residential & Commercial Services and Monthly Fees for Gonzales, Greenfield, and Soledad

Residential Services

Residential Services

Standard residential services are provided to the cities of Gonzales, Greenfield, and Soledad.

In addition to our weekly curbside service, we offer free motor oil and filter collection in approved containers. We also offer one or more special annual cleanup events in all of the cities we serve.

Business Services

Business, Commercial, and Multi-Family (Apartment) Services

Tri-Cities Disposal & Recycling Service offers a variety of refuse and recycling services for our commercial and multi-family (apartment) customers. For garbage collection service, customers can choose between 64 and 96-gallon cart services or 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6 cubic yard front-load garbage dumpsters.  Blue cart mixed recycling and cardboard recycling services (where needed) are included with your service. 

Construction Services

Construction Site Services - Roll-off Dropbox Service

Tri-Cities Disposal & Recycling Service offers roll-off debris box services (also known as dropbox service).  These very large bins are often used for construction, remodeling, large cleanup, and demolition.  We offer three different sizes: 20, 30, and 40 cubic yards.  These boxes can handle a variety of refuse, recyclables, and construction and demolition debris.