OCC Recycling Center

The OCC Recycling Center is Temporarily Closed

OCC Recycling Center closed due to equipment failure. We’ll reopen Tuesday October 24 9:00am

Your Recycling Center has new Operation Schedule
Tuesday-Saturday 9am-4pm

The OC Children’s Book Festival is this Sunday. Lots of great activities and vendors makes this a fun FREE community event. Our Child Development Club will have a table with early literacy items. Stop by and say hello 👋🏼 📚 📖 ☀️

Hello Recyclers!

Just a quick note that we will be closed Friday, 2/18-Monday 2/20 in observance of President's Day Weekend.

Have a great weekend all and we'll see you next week!

-OCC Recycling

Due to unforseen Circumstances the OCC Reycling Center will be closed through Wed Feb 8.

Hello Recyclers!

We wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving! We will be closed Thursday, 11/24 through Sunday, 11/27 for the Thanksgiving Holiday and back to recycling on Monday, 11/28.

Gobble gobble!

Due to lack of personnel, The Recycling Center will be closed on Saturday June 4.
Business will resume Monday June 6 at 9am

Please be advised: OCC Recycling Center will be closed Saturday, 5/28/22 through Monday, 5/30/22 in observance of Memorial Day Weekend. We will return to our normal business hours on Tuesday, 5/31/22.

We wish our entire community a great weekend in remembrance of those who have served our country.

Hello Recyclers!

Another load of your bottles & cans are sent to be recycled! ♻️♻️♻️

Look at those bales! Hundreds of thousands of beverage containers on this flatbed, ready for recycling instead of being dumped in the landfill. Way to go!

Hello Recyclers!

Please be advised that the OCC Recycling Center will be closed from December 19th to January 2nd. Come recycle with us tomorrow (Dec. 17th) or Saturday (Dec. 20th) before our Winter Recess! If you're unable to make it by, we'll resume operations on Monday, January 3rd.

Happy holidays & a very merry New Year!

Hello Recyclers!

It's a beautiful November morning! Please be advised that we will be closed Thursday and Friday of this week (November 25 & 26) for Thanksgiving.

We hope everybody has a great holiday and we'll be back to business on Saturday, November 27!

New Hours

Great news, Recyclers!

Beginning this Monday, July 26, the OCC Recycling Center will be open SIX days per week! Our new hours are as follows:

Monday: 9:00am-4:00pm
Tuesday: 9:00am-4:00pm
Wednesday: 9:00am-4:00pm
Thursday: 9:00am-4:00pm
Friday: 9:00am-4:00pm
Saturday: 9:00am-4:00pm
Sunday: Closed

Hello Recyclers!

Due to a lack of funding, our battery and fluorescent lightbulb collection program will be ending as of June 29, 2021. We want to thank Costa Mesa Sanitary District for their partnership with this program over the years and we hope to work with them on future projects! If you've been meaning to bring in your household batteries or fluorescent light bulbs, feel free to bring them in before the end of the month.

After June 29, you can still bring your batteries and fluorescent light bulbs to Household Hazardous Waste sites throughout the county, including:

Huntington Beach Collection Center -- 17121 Nichols Lane, 92647, Gate 6
Irvine Collection Center -- 6411 Oak Canyon, 92618

Please visit https://oclandfills.com/household-hazardous-waste for more information.

We are finally open 👏🏼👏🏼Our Student workers on Duty💪🏼Community responding!

Hello Recyclers! Good news!

The Orange Coast College Recycling Center is set to reopen May 4th after yearlong closure

Following more than a year of closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Orange Coast College’s Recycling Center is set to reopen on Tuesday, May 4. The Center will be operating with modified business hours and procedures in order to ensure safety for both employees and visitors. Please thoroughly consider the following:

-The Recycling Center will be open from Tuesday until Saturday, and closed on Sundays and Mondays (see full operating hours below).
-Masks will be required for all employees and patrons, and social distancing of 6 feet or more must be observed.
-In order to limit the spread of COVID-19, all materials, including donated materials, must be sorted before the Recycling Center receives them, including bottle caps removed from all bottles.
-Additional safety measures include the availability of hand sanitizer for customer use and sanitation procedures for high-touch surfaces.

Our preliminary hours of operation will be:

MONDAY – CLOSED
TUESDAY – 9:00am – 3:00pm
WEDNESDAY – 9:00am – 3:00pm
THUSDAY – 9:00am – 3:00pm
FRIDAY – 9:00am – 2:00pm
SATURDAY – 9:00am – 4:00pm
SUNDAY – CLOSED

In addition, all CalRecycle regulations for CRV buyback by State Certified Recycling Centers will be followed, including:
-Load Limits – If any aspect of a load exceeds CalRecycle load limits (100 lbs each for plastics or aluminum, 1000 lbs of glass), the entire load will be rejected.
-Count limits – Materials are able to be paid by count (by request), up to 50 of each material in a load, per day.
-Contamination – Loads containing excess dirt, liquids, food waste, or other contaminants may be subject to discounting

Thank you for all of the calls, e-mails, and Facebook comments during our time of closure. We appreciate the immense support we have received from our community and we look forward to serving your recycling needs!

Hello Recyclers!

We appreciate your patience and enthusiasm for us to open back up! We wanted to thank everybody who's reached out to us and, although we don't have an exact reopening date yet, we're encouraged by the rising vaccination rates and falling COVID numbers in our community. We expect to be able to open much closer to sooner than later at this point, so again, thank you all for your patience and stay tuned!

For those of you who are interested, OCC Recycling's own Leo will be joining Surfrider Newport Beach on April 8th for a virtual Earth Month event with presentations from several speakers on the topics of clean watersheds, waste and recycling disposal processes, preventing pollution, and tying it all together with a personal commitment to zero waste habits.

The meeting will be held on Zoom. Pre-registration is not necessary, but attendees will be limited to first 100 people. Students are welcome to attend!

Date/time: Thursday, April 8th, 2021 5:30 - 7 pm PT
Meeting link: https://surfrider-org.zoom.us/j/92436103012

Speakers:
Thea Merritt from EcoNow
Leo Stiles from OCC Recycling Center
Cristina Robinson from OC Coastkeeper
Carissa Macias from Newport Bay Conservancy

Hi Recyclers!

While we don't have any new information on our re-opening, rest assured that we'll be back up and running as soon as we are able to, with new social distancing guidelines. Stay tuned, we'll keep you updated!

Good Morning Recyclers!!
We're thrilled to be sponsoring a Zero Waste workshop this Saturday, December 14 in the OCC Fine Arts Building. Please join us!!

Good morning recyclers!! Today is a great day for a visit!!

A little reminder that recycling is important, but the real change will occur once we reduce what we consume/produce and reuse the things we can!

Did you know recycling can save water?

The 10 year challenge we should actually care about!