Recycling Presentation

Universal Waste Systems

• Mission: Provide outstanding quality waste stream solutions for a clean and healthy environment for the

communities we serve

• Collection service provider for the recycLA Northeast Zone

• Servicing Los Angeles County since 1986

• Largest locally family owned and operated company in Los Angeles County

• Provides service to over 200,000 residential, commercial, industrial and multi-family units across

Southern California; every month

• Collects, processes and transfers over 250,000 tons of solid waste,

recycling and green waste per year

recycLA

• April 2014 - Los Angeles City Council approved the proposal to create eleven (11) waste hauling

zones in a public private partnership called recycLA

• Commercial – Industrial – Multi-family homes (4 or more units)

• Improving the waste collection services for nearly 80,000 businesses and multi-family buildings

• 70% of our waste in the City of Los Angeles comes from commercial buildings and apartments

• July 2017 - Commencement of recycLA across the City

• 2025 - Sustainability City pLAn - 90% landfill diversion

Why Recycle?

• It’s the Law• AB 341: CA Mandatory Commercial Recycling Law • AB 1826: CA Mandatory Commercial and Multi-family Organics Recycling• SB 1383: Mandatory Organic Waste Methane Emissions Reductions

• Save the Environment• Use Fewer Natural Resources• Reduce Greenhouse Gases• Maximize Remaining Landfill Space

• Save Money• The more you recycle, the more you save

under the recycLA program

What is Recyclable?

• Paper• Cardboard• Cartons• Metals• Glass• Plastics

Paper

• Computer Paper• Ledger paper• Newspaper• Computer paper• Magazines• Arts and craft paper• File folders• Paper bags• Unwanted mail

• Flyers• Telephone books• Note cards• Post-It notes• Catalogs• All envelopes,

including those with windows

All clean dry paper, including:

Cardboard

All cardboard boxes and chipboard, including:• Cereal boxes• Tissue boxes• Shoe boxes• Dry food boxes• Detergent boxes• Paper towel and toilet paper rolls• Corrugated boxes (broken down and flattened)

Cartons

All refrigerated, shelf stable, aseptic packaging:• Fruit juice boxes and cartons• Orange juice cartons• Milk cartons• Wine boxes• Soy milk, rice milk and almond milk boxes and

cartons• Cereal boxes• Heavy cream cartons• Egg substitute cartons

Metals

All aluminum, tin and bi-metal cans, wiped out if possible, including:

• Soda cans• Juice cans• Soup cans• Vegetable cans• Pet food cans• Pie tins• Clean aluminum foil• Wire hangers• Empty paint and aerosol cans with plastic caps

removed

Glass

All glass bottles and jars, rinsed if possible, including:

• Soda bottles• Wine bottles• Beer bottles• Spaghetti sauce jars• Pickle jars• Broken bottles

Plastics

• Soda and juice bottles• Detergent containers• Bleach containers• Shampoo and lotion bottles• Mouthwash bottles• Dishwashing liquid bottles• Milk jugs• Tubs for margarine and yogurt• Plastic planters

All plastics numbers 1 through 7Empty plastic containers, wiped out if possible, including:

Plastics, continued

• All plastic bags and film bags, including:• Grocery bags, dry cleaner bags, and film plastics

• All clean polystyrene products, including:• Styrofoam cups; containers, and packaging such as Styrofoam

egg shell cartons; Styrofoam block packaging; Styrofoam clamshell packaging

• Miscellaneous plastics, including:• Plastic hangers• Non-electric plastic toys• Plastic swimming pools• Plastic laundry baskets