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Aluminum Foil & Pans - Clean

Aluminum foil and pans are baking dishes, pie tins, and other mid-weight aluminum ovenware designed for short-term use.

Free of food and grease/oil for recycling. Paper-lined foil belongs in trash.

Vendors

Vendor Address City Destination Disposal Method Notes
Refund Recycling 2680 Old First St. Livermore Recycle Free Drop-off
Fry's Metals 1845 W. Winton Ave. Hayward Recycle Free Drop-off, Free Pick-up
Aaron Metals (Hayward) 25101 Clawiter Rd Hayward Recycle Free Drop-off, Free Pick-up Free pick-up and drop box service for industrial and commercial accounts.
Fremont Recycling & Transfer Station 41149 Boyce Rd. Fremont Recycle Drop-off for a Fee Separate recyclables and deposit into marked containers at facility
Republic Services, Inc. 42600 Boyce Road Fremont Recycle Pick-up for a Fee
El Cerrito Recycling + Environmental Resource Center 7501 Schmidt Ln. El Cerrito Recycle Free Drop-off Scrap Aluminum bin.
Concord/Pleasant Hill Recycling Center 1320 Galaxy Way Concord Recycle Free Drop-off
Berkeley Recycling Center 669 Gilman St.
(corner of 2nd & Gilman)
Berkeley Recycle Free Drop-off, Buyback Drop-off Aluminum foil must be separate from aluminum scrap and cans; it should be free of food. Bi-metal cans, primarily pet food cans, may be added to aluminum foil at the drop-off. Aluminum scrap includes foil, signs, aluminum windows, aluminum shavings, rims, scraps, car and bicycle parts. Berkeley Recycling will purchase your aluminum scrap, or accept it at the drop-off.

Curbside Service

Recycling Note
Alameda
Free of food and grease/oil, or it belongs in the trash.
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Albany
Free of food and grease/oil, otherwise the foil and pans belongs in the trash.
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Berkeley
Free of food and grease/oil, or it belongs in the trash. Paper-lined foil belongs in trash.
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Castro Valley Sanitary District
Free of food and grease/oil, or it belongs in the trash.
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Dublin
Free of food and grease/oil, or it belongs in the trash.
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Emeryville
Free of food and grease/oil, otherwise the foil and pans belongs in the trash.
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Fremont
Free of food and grease/oil, or it belongs in the trash.
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Hayward
Free of food and grease/oil, or it belongs in the trash.
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Hayward (Oro Loma - L2)
Free of food and grease/oil, or it belongs in the trash.
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Livermore
Free of food and grease/oil, or it belongs in the trash.
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Newark
Free of food and grease/oil, or it belongs in the trash.
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Oakland
Free of food and grease/oil, or it belongs in the trash.
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Piedmont
Free of food and grease/oil, or it belongs in the trash.
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Pleasanton
Free of food and grease/oil, or it belongs in the trash.
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San Leandro
Free of food and grease/oil, or it belongs in the trash.
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San Leandro (Oro Loma - L3)
Free of food and grease/oil, or it belongs in the trash.
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San Lorenzo (Oro Loma)
Free of food and grease/oil, or it belongs in the trash.
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Unincorporated Oro Loma (L1)
Free of food and grease/oil, or it belongs in the trash.
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Union City
Free of food and grease/oil, or it belongs in the trash.
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