Eel River Resource Recovery - Alderpoint

Go ahead and fill up your green waste cart with the following materials… grass, leaves, weeds, brush, pine needles, branches, unpainted wood (no nails), untreated wood (no nails), etc.Load up your 68 gallon cart, but make sure the lid can close. Please do not overfill or pack your cart so tightly that material won’t fall out.

Please do not add trash to your cart. We have to say “no, thank you” to the following materials: dirt, rocks, paper, plastic, Styrofoam, food, sheetrock, metal, painted wood, treated wood, or stained wood.Sorry, but green waste carts cannot handle tree limbs or wood scraps over three feet long or more than one foot wide. If you are not sure of what can and cannot be recycled via the green waste program, please call us at 725-5156.Thank you for keeping the green waste program growing. The materials we collect are transported to Scotia for use in their biomass power plant. Green waste reused in this fashion helps to create energy for Humboldt County.

Transportation and Salvage (scrap yard and vehicle recycling)

Today it is easer then ever to recycle your old car, truck, boat, RV, Camp trailer or Semi-Truck. Eel River Transportation & Salvage is a certified auto dismantler. When you are ready to recycle your unwanted car or truck, Eel River Transportation & Salvage makes it quick and painless. You can drop off your unwanted vehicle Monday through Friday 8:00am to 4:30pm. This is free of charge and we may pay depending on the market. All you need is a photo ID. That's it! We will do all the DMV paperwork for you. If you need your vehicle picked up, just stop by the office at 850 Riverwalk Drive in Fortuna to set up a pick up or give us a call for all the details at (707) 725-6530.We can also recycle larger vehicles such as farm and off road equipment.

Eel River Transportation & Salvage also recycles RVs, Motor Homes, Camp Trailers and Boats. Whatever it is, big or small, Eel River Transportation & Salvage can handle the job. There may be a charge for these items so call for details.For those big jobs, Eel River Transportation & Salvage has the largest portable scrap metal baler on the north coast. The baler is able to process thousands of pounds of scrap metal per day. We also have high side end dump trailers, an excavator and loader. With over 40 years of experience we know how to save you money by getting the job done faster.

Main Transfer Station and Recycling Center

Eel River Disposal is a locally owned solid waste and recycling company. We have been operating in Humboldt County for the past 25 years. We are a fully integrated collection company offering residential, commercial and industrial solid waste collection services. We also offer recycling collection & processing, green waste collection & processing, and operate solid waste transfer facilities and state certified 'buy-back' recycling centers.At Eel River Disposal you have many different recycling and disposal options.At our Recycling Center we buy back all of your CRV bottles and cans, we also buy Copper, Copper Wire, Brass, Scrap Aluminum, Radiators, Aluminum Wheels, Electric Motors, Stainless Steel, and Automotive Batteries.At our Drop off, you can also recycle your non-CRV Glass and Plastic Bottles, Tin Cans, Newspaper/Magazines, Cardboard, Junk mail/Office paper, Appliances. (There is a charge for Freon appliances).

We also provide low cost shredding for all your confidential material. You can bring it in or we have lockable containers to give you a safe, cost-effective way to store and protect your documents, and valuable information on site.There are many disposal options and price discounts for Wood waste, Green waste, Metal, Sheet rock and Construction Debris. Call the office for the pricing (707) 725-5156.At the main office you can pay your bill, sign up for weekly service and get information on all the services we provide at any of our locations. The Transfer Station and Recycling Center is open Monday through Friday 8:00am to 4:30pm and Saturday and Sunday 9:00am to 4:00pm.

Recycling Glass Bottles at Eel River Resource Recovery

There are many types of Glass bottles, in all shapes and sizes and colors. Some you get money for some you don’t. Just because a product is recyclable does not mean you get paid for it. We get asked the same questions all the time, what’s the difference and how do you know if you get paid or not. First all glass bottles are recyclable. But you only get paid on the bottles that have CRV on the label. When you come to the recycling center, we are paying you back the deposit you paid when you bought the product. If you buy a bottle of water, you will see on your receipt a 5 cent or 10 cent charge for CRV depending on the size of the bottle.

CRV - which is short for California Redemption Value - is our state’s way of helping make sure beverage containers are recycled instead of thrown in the trash or left behind as litter.

It’s a fact: containers that have CRV are twice as likely to be recycled as those that don’t. And with 16.5 billion aluminum, glass and plastic containers now carrying the CRV label each year, Californians have a lot of incentive to recycle.

It all starts with a payment made to the California Department of Conservation by beverage distributors on each beverage container sold in the state. The idea here is that manufacturers have a responsibility to reduce the amount of waste their products create. This cost is passed on to the retailer and eventually reaches the consumer at the checkout stand in the form of CRV, 5 cents on containers less than 24 ounces, 10 cents on containers 24 ounces or greater.

When consumers return their empty beverage containers to certified recycling centers, they recoup the CRV. At the end of the line, the Department of Conservation repays the recycling centers out of the money that was paid in at the beginning by the beverage distributors.

Even if you don’t take your bottles and cans to a recycling center, it’s important to recycle them. Many people use curbside recycling at home and take the time to find a recycling bin when out and about. The CRV will be collected by whomever picks up the recyclable materials and can help offset the cost of collection. All of which helps keep bottles and cans out of our landfills and ensures a more beautiful, less littered California.