Guide for Reuse, Repair, Recycling, and Safe Disposal
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Camera Film & Slides

Very old motion picture cellulose nitrate base film (pre 1952) requires careful handling, storage, duplication and safe disposal.

Vendors

Vendor Address City Destination Disposal Method Notes
Safety Kleen Systems (Sacramento) 6000 88th Street Sacramento Safe Disposal Pick-up for a Fee Photographic waste
Safety Kleen Systems (Rohnert Park) 5750 Commerce Blvd Rohnert Park Safe Disposal Pick-up for a Fee Photographic waste
Safety Kleen (San Jose) 1147 N 10th Street San Jose Safe Disposal Pick-up for a Fee Photographic chemical waste
Pro-Tek Vaults 3110 N San Fernando Blvd Burbank Reuse Drop-off for a Fee, Mail-in for a Fee Film -Acetate film preservation, Inspection, cleaning & repair, Nitrate film handling, Still image services, Digital, Motion picture film scanning, Storage, Archival film storage, Archival multimedia storage
Pro-Tek Vaults 3110 N San Fernando Blvd Burbank Repair Drop-off for a Fee, Mail-in for a Fee Film -Acetate film preservation, Inspection, cleaning & repair, Nitrate film handling, Still image services, Digital, Motion picture film scanning, Storage, Archival film storage, Archival multimedia storage
GreenWaste of Palo Alto 2765 Lafayette St Palo Alto Landfill Pick-up for a Fee
GreenDisk 580 8th Ave NE
#104
Issaquah Recycle Mail-in for a Fee
GreenCitizen 1831 Old Bayshore Hwy, Ste. #2 Burlingame Recycle Drop-off for a Fee Tape-Based Media VHS,DLT, LTO, Movie Film | Small Cassette, Floppy Disk, 35mm Slides, Film Negatives.
East Bay Depot For Creative Reuse 4695 Telegraph Ave.
(drop-off at loading dock on Shattuck Ave between 46th and 47th streets)
Oakland Reuse Free Drop-off No slide carousels, projectors or projector screns
Davis Street (WM) Resource Recovery Complex (Transfer Station) 2615 Davis St. San Leandro Landfill Drop-off for a Fee Public Drop-off Area
Commodity Resource & Environmental, Inc 493 Reynolds Circle San Jose Recycle Free Pick-up One-time-use Camera Recycling Mail-in Program for businesses. They provide boxes, UPS labels. You get paid 10 cents per pound. Also provide Photo Chemical and Solution Waste Disposal services (paid pick up)

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