Garbage Services
New! Curbside Battery Recycling! How easy is that?
Oakland residents can now set out used batteries with the weekly garbage collection.
Simply place your spent batteries in a sealed clear plastic bag, and set on top of your garbage cart.
Put small photo and coin lithium batteries in a separate plastic bag with other spent batteries.
It is unlawful to toss batteries into the garbage or recycling containers, please use this convenient new service responsibly.
Your WMAC garbage collector will put your batteries in a special bin on the truck separate from the garbage. Batteries will be sent to a battery recycling company that recovers the metal and chemical components in an environmentally safe process.
Burgundy Garbage Cart
Residential garbage is picked up once a week by Waste Management of Alameda County: (510) 613-8710. To ensure pick-up, garbage should be placed on the curb by 6:00 am on your scheduled pick-up day.
To learn more about Garbage Service in Oakland, choose from these topics:
- Green cart - weekly yard trimmings and food scraps recycling
- Gray cart - weekly bottles, cans, jars, paper and cardboard recycling
- Used motor oil and oil filters - weekly collection for recycling
- Bulky pickup and recycling (household appliances and other bulky items)
- Holiday collection (what happens when your service day is also a holiday)
- Services for disabled and senior Oakland residents
- Discounted rates for low-income Oakland seniors
- Current residential garbage and recycling rates bill insert (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader )
- Complete rates for residences and businesses
- Information about who can legally haul solid waste in Oakland
- Holiday tree recycling each January