Large Item Pick Up
AVI offers three free collections per year to collect items which do not belong in the garbage, recycling or food scrap carts. These are limited to seven cubic yards, and small items must be bagged or boxed.
ACCEPTABLE items include:
- Furniture, Carpets, Mattresses
- Tires – Up to four (4) car tires (without rims)
- White Goods – Refrigerators, freezers (doors must be removed), water heaters or other similar household appliances
- Brown Goods – Electronic equipment such as stereos, VCR’s, personal digital assistants (PDAs), telephones, and other similar items
- E-Waste – Electronic equipment such as cell phones, computers, monitors, televisions, and other items containing cathode ray tubes (CRTs)
Holiday Tree Disposal
Boy Scouts of America – Tree Recycling Fundraiser
For a minimum $10.00 donation per tree, local Boy Scouts Troop 905 will pick up holiday trees from Dublin residents on Saturday, January 6, 2024. Reservations are required. To make a reservation, please visit http://troop905.org/ after December 1, 2023. Reservations will be taken through 3 pm on January 5, 2024. Only clean trees will be accepted. No flocking or tinsel allowed. Please remove the tree base or stand.
Special Holiday Tree Pickup
You may place your holiday tree at the curb by 5:30 A.M. on your regular service day beginning January 8, 2024, through January 31, 2024. A truck exclusively for recycling holiday trees will collect the trees. Only clean trees will be taken (no flocking or tinsel). Please cut trees down to 4-feet or less in height. Please remove bases or stand. Recycle Holiday Tree in Organics Cart You may place your holiday tree into your Organics Cart along with acceptable yard trimmings anytime after the holiday. Your cart will be emptied on your regular service day. Only clean trees are accepted (no flocking or tinsel). Tree branches and stumps must be cut up in lengths that will allow the lid to securely close.
Non-Recyclable Flocked Trees or Trees with Tinsel
Amador Valley Industries can pick up your nonrecyclable holiday tree. Please call (925) 479-9545 to arrange for the disposal of your flocked or tinseled tree. An additional fee may apply unless you use one of the three (3) Large Item Collections available to you per year at no cost.
Battery Pickup
Dry cell household batteries (please place in a heavy duty plastic zip lock bag on top of the recycling cart). Improper disposal of batteries can be severely detrimental to our waste program, for more information on you can reference our newsletter on fire danger.
Motor Oil Pickup
Each residential household may call and request up to two (2) used motor oil containers and a heavy duty zip lock bag for the recycling of up to two (2) used motor oil filters. On your regular collection day just place the container(s) at the curb and AVI will replace them with empties for your next use.
Annual Household Hazardous Waste Drop-Off
AVI hosts an Annual Household Hazardous Waste Drop-Off event every Spring. Watch your mailbox and our website for more information on event location and date.
Textile Pickup
Help find a new life for your old textiles, call into our customer service line at 925-479-9545 to schedule your pick up. Textile Pickups can be scheduled the first full week of January, April, July and October.
What We Accept:
- Clean and dry clothing for adults, children and babies.
- Stuffed animals, bedding and towels are also accepted.
What We Do Not Accept:
- Wet or moldy textiles, textiles that have human biowaste, blood or toxic chemicals on them
- Any items that are too worn to be used again.
Items must be placed in clear plastic bags and placed by the curb by 6 am on your scheduled pick up day. Please do not place textiles on or behind your carts. A separate driver will be collecting your textiles.
| State of California Penal Code Section 402b Any person who discards or abandons or leaves in any place accessible to children any refrigerator, icebox, deep-freeze locker, clothes dryer, washing machine, or other appliance, having a capacity of one and one-half cubic feet or more, which is no longer in use, and which has not had the door removed or the hinges and such portion of the latch mechanism removed to prevent latching or locking of the door, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Any owner, lessee, or manager who knowingly permits such a refrigerator, icebox, deep-freeze locker, clothes dryer, washing machine, or other appliance to remain on premises under his control without having the door removed or the hinges and such portion of the latch mechanism removed to prevent latching or locking of the door, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Guilt of a violation of this section shall not, in itself, render one guilty of manslaughter, battery or other crime against a person who may suffer death or injury from entrapment in such a refrigerator, icebox, deep-freeze locker, clothes dryer, washing machine, or other appliance. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any vendor or seller of refrigerators, iceboxes, deep-freeze lockers, clothes dryers, washing machines, or other appliances, who keeps or stores them for sale purposes, if the vendor or seller takes reasonable precautions to effectively secure the door of any such refrigerator, icebox, deep-freeze locker, clothes dryer, washing machine, or other appliance so as to prevent entrance by children small enough to fit therein. (Amended by Stats. 1976, Ch. 1122.) |