San Jacinto Recycling Center

If solid or dangerous waste is mixed into used oil, it is no longer considered used oil. For instance, solvents, paints, plastics, and cleaners should not be mixed with used oil.

In effect, e-waste is a misnomer as almost all of the materials in electronic components can be recycled, reused, or many of the materials recovered. Electronics are only a waste product when viewed as a whole and in terms of their immediate usability. However, this is one of the few instances when the sum of the parts is greater than the whole.

Recycling is a process to create new items from old and used materials. This helps in reducing energy, potentially useful materials from being wasted and keeping harmful toxins out of water reserves.

Did you know that each year we produce over 21 and a half million tons of food waste? If we composted this food waste, we could significantly reduce greenhouse gases: the equivalent of removing 2 million cars from our roads.

Chlorofluorocarbons aren't the only substances that can damage the environment. There are oils involved with refrigeration that contain ozone-depleting substances that can dissolve into ground water. Let a professional make sure your refrigerator is properly disposed of.

While many people may think that taking a shower requires more water than a bath does, this is actually untrue. Taking a bath with the tub only about halfway full of water requires about 20 gallons of water, whereas the average-length shower only uses about 13 gallons.

Professional refrigerant recycling companies are required to prove to the EPA in their area that they have the training and equipment necessary to meet EPA standards for refrigerant recycling and recovery efficiency.

Recapture processes have precise regulations and requirements, which is why professional services are so important. For example, mixing different R-number refrigerants in the same capture canister is not permissible.

We've been recycling aluminum for a while now. In fact, if you placed all the aluminum cans recycled since 1972 end to end, they'd reach from Los Angeles to New York and back a staggering 16,000 times. Yikes.

It’s important to remember that computers and other electronics may actually have scrap values worth more than you could get for them at a garage sale. Let’s talk about the electronics cluttering your home so that you can decide whether recycling is a good option for you.

Filtering and demineralizing oil can remove solid, inorganic particles from used oil. This filtered oil is broken up into weights and can be used for burner fuel.

Did you know that running your faucet for five minutes uses enough energy to power a 60-watt light bulb for 14 hours?

Since recycled oil has already been refined, it takes only one-third the energy to clean it than it does to refine crude oil for use.