Recycling Event at City Yards

Please enter on Michigan Ave

The City is hosting a FREE recycling event Saturday, August 8th, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. for Santa Monica residents only. Bring your used mattresses, box springs, electronic waste, and up to five boxes of paper for shredding! Shredding will happen on-site and the paper will be recycled. 

Questions? Call (866) 311-7266

For a full list of Resource Recovery and Recycling Events click here.

Tips for a successful event:

• Please remain in your car unless otherwise instructed
• Batteries must be brought in a separate container
• Mattresses and box springs must be clean and dry

Accepted items:

• Up to 5 banker boxes of paper
• Phones, laptops, and tablets
• DVD & VHS players
• Radios & stereo equipment
• Printers (please remove ink cartridges)
• Batteries
• CRT, LCD, OLED, and plasma screen TVs and monitors
• Mattresses and box springs

Prohibited items:

• Microwaves & blenders
• Coffee pots & Keurigs
• Ink cartridges
• Washing machines
• Bread makers
• Waffle irons
• Refrigerators and mini-fridges
• Household hazardous waste (including paint)

For household hazardous waste please call Clean Earth at (877) 443-2371 or to go cleanearthinc.com for complimentary residential household hazardous waste and e-waste collection.