Contra Costa Waste Services

Contra Costa Waste, also known as the Recycling Center & Transfer Station (RCTS), a Garaventa Company, has as it's main priority to keep as many items out of the landfill as possible. We accept and recycle yard waste, wood, metals, concrete, e-waste, appliances and construction & demolition debris.Here, you will find clear and helpful information on our recycling and recovery services, prices and much more. Contra Costa Waste (RCTS) diverts up to 91% of the material it receives. We recycle and recover tires, metals, mattresses, propane tanks, appliances, carpet, yard waste and construction and demolition. Carpet: (primarily clean carpet from installation companies) is sorted and recovered — then sent to a facility where it’s processed into feedstock to make synthetic diesel fuel. It is also used to generate electricity.Wood: is ground and sent to a bio mass plant where it’s reused as fuel (instead of coal) to generate electricity or is transported to a decorative landscape facility to be cleaned and reprocessed as bark for consumer reuse.Construction & Demolition Debris: is placed on our “C&D Line” where we sort out concrete, asphalt, rocks, sheetrock, drywall, plasterboard and wallboard is recovered material is sent to various recycling facilities.Electronics: E-waste such as CRTs, Computer Monitors, TVs, VCRs, Printers, Copy Machines, etc. is sorted and recovered — then sent to a facility where it is dismantled. Valuable metals and coppers found in circuit boards, plastics and glass from CRTs are recycled.

Contra Costa Waste will continue to “raise the bar” in the communities we serve by delivering exceptional customer service along with fair, competitive pricing and maintaining our reputation as the vendor of choice in the solid waste market place.