California Waste Solutions

California Waste Solutions (CWS) provides recycling, waste management and materials brokering services to public and private sector clients throughout northern California.
The Duong family formed CWS in 1990 and it continues as a family enterprise today.Shortly after arriving here from Vietnam in 1981, the Duong family started CWS’ predecessor, Cogido Recycling, which was sold to a national solid waste company in 1990. In 1992 CWS won a contract to collect and process recyclables in the City of Oakland and since winning that first contract, CWS has grown into a substantial regional company. CWS began processing the majority of residential recyclable material for the City of San José in 2000 and in 2006, San Jose selected CWS to both collect and process these materials.
Beginning on July 1, 2015, CWS will expand its Oakland service area to the entire city of Oakland.CWS operates recycling plants and customer service centers in Oakland and San Jose as well as support facilities for its truck fleet and collections operations. Additionally a company subsidiary in Vietnam owns and operates substantial waste management and recycling facilities that brings advanced environmental services to over 1 million households.The company’s highly qualified staff includes professionals with local and international waste management experience.
In addition to materials collections and processing, CWS brokers recycled materials, both nationally and in international markets.

California Waste Solutions is Northern California's premiere full-service recycling and environmental services company. We service more than 3 million households worldwide every week.California Waste Solutions thrives by protecting the earth’s resources through diverting pollutants away from landfills, recycling needed materials, reusing vital products and using high tech sustainable strategies to prepare for the future.The industry’s leading publication, Waste Age Magazine, has consistently ranked California Waste Solutions as one of the top recycling companies in America. That’s because we use the latest technology to make recycling customer-friendly and business efficient.'We are absolutely committed to providing our customers with exceptional service, protecting the environment, caring for our employees in the best ways possible and keeping our facilities in peak operating condition.'

CALIFORNIA WASTE SOLUTIONS REQUIRES A DEDICATED AND COMMITTED TEAM OF ENVIRONMENTAL SPECIALISTS.
As a family-owned company, CWS hires locally and treats each of its team members like family. Most team members are union members who receive some of the best pay and benefits in the industry. For their part, team members look out for one another, focus on getting their jobs done efficiently, safely and correctly.
As environmental specialists, they understand the company’s goal of working toward a zero waste planet and take pride in the contributions they make toward moving closer to achieving that goal on a daily basis.

Oakland Residential Recycling

Oakland Recycles is a collaboration of the City of Oakland, California Waste Solutions, Waste Management of Alameda County, Inc. and you! We’re committed to providing the services and information you need to recycle right.It is our pledge to provide every household with world-class service at the lowest cost possible. Our union workforce, recruited from and hired to represent the diversity of Oakland has been trained to provide effective, productive, customer-focused service to every household in every neighborhood.We are working with schools, community groups and neighborhood organizations to help educate our community about the tremendous environmental benefits of recycling and how to recycle correctly.

Clean Trucks Bring Fresh Air to Our Neighborhoods.
At the start of the new Oakland service, California Waste Solutions will provide curbside recycling service to every Oakland residential customer with a multi-million dollar fleet of gleaming new, clean and efficient CNG (Natural Gas) trucks.

When you place the right materials in the right cart, it benefits you and your community, and protects the environment. When you place the wrong materials in a cart, it can harm the environment, make recycling processing more difficult, or even injure our workers who pick up and process your recycling

• Contamination of recycling materials can result in additional charges to your account.
• California Waste Solutions can refuse to collect carts containing the wrong materials, and may charge contamination fees.
• Goodness knows that’s a hassle and we don’t want to do it.
• More than 70% of CWS workers live in Oakland. Please help keep them safe.
• Be sure to follow Oakland’s recycling guide to recycle right, and avoid contamination fees.

Oakland Businesses Recycle Right!
Recycling is good for Oakland. Recycling is good for the earth we all share and Recycling is Required. Oakland has become a nation-wide civic leader in diverting waste from the landfill and in recycling/reusing materials that would otherwise harm the environment. Studies show that Oakland visitors and residents are driven to Oakland's businesses because of our community’s reputation for sustainability and respect for the environment.

San Jose Residential

In 2002, CWS partnered with the City of San Jose’s largest recyclables collector to process material picked up through the city’s residential curbside program. CWS’ San Jose plant is permitted to receive up to 530 tons daily of material from this single-stream program. In 2006, the San Jose City Council awarded CWS the franchise to both collect and process approximately 157,000 of the city’s single-family curbside set-outs starting in July, 2007.

San Jose Large Item Collection

Residents in single-family homes can have large items (such as mattresses, sofas, refrigerators, tires, and more) collected at the curb. The First Two collections will be at No Extra Charge from July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2017. Any additional large item collections of up to three items will cost $27.23.

Commercial Services

“California Waste Solutions has always provided the highest quality and most professional service to the Swig Company at the Kaiser Center. CWS provides timely and efficient response to service requests, and CWS management is always available to review procedures, discuss improvements, and assist with occasional building projects related to trash and recycling. The Swig Company appreciates the consistently high level of support from California Waste Solutions, and looks forward to our continued relationship.”CWS delivers empty roll-off boxes and promptly picks them up when full through customized scheduling and on-call pick up. Commercial clients have a dedicated account executive available to respond quickly to all needs of your business. Collection vehicles are radio dispatched and GPS tracked for rapid response. Acceptable materials include all general recyclable items including: paper, envelopes, file folders, newspaper, magazines, junk mail, cardboard, cans, glass and plastic containers, and metal.  These materials can come from single-stream and source-separated programs.

Materials Processing

At its three state-of the-art material recovery facilities located in Oakland and San Jose, CWS employees separate all types of recyclable material including paper, plastic, aluminum, other metals, glass, and textiles* and prepare them for marketing.These operations employ a combination of mechanical processes and human sorting to recover as much material that can be remanufactured as possible.Our newest facility in San Jose is one of the largest single-stream processing facilities in the western United States and can handle over 500 tons per day of residential single-stream recyclables.