Guide for Reuse, Repair, Recycling, and Safe Disposal

for Alameda County, Contra Costa County, and the City of Palo Alto

Item

Plastic Film & Wrap

Plastic film is soft plastic that does not hold its shape when squished or crumpled in your hands. Plastic film may be multi-colored and is often used to wrap packages.

Plastic Bag & Film Recycling Drop-off Location Finder

Some grocery stores still offer plastic film recycling drop-off bins for clean, dry plastic bags, but in many cases, the material is too contaminated to be processed and thus landfilled. When you can, try to avoid the packaging in the first place by shopping locally or buying secondhand.

Vendors

Vendor	Address	City	Destination	Disposal Method	Notes
Safeway	2300 16th St	San Francisco	Recycle	Free Drop-off	Stuff clean film (saran-wrap) inside plastic bag before drop-off.
Safeway	2350 Noriega St.	San Francisco	Recycle	Free Drop-off	Stuff clean film (saran-wrap) inside plastic bag before drop-off.
Safeway	298 King St.	San Francisco	Recycle	Free Drop-off	Stuff clean film (saran-wrap) inside plastic bag before drop-off.
Safeway	3350 Mission St.	San Francisco	Recycle	Free Drop-off	Stuff clean film (saran-wrap) inside plastic bag before drop-off.
Safeway	350 Bay St.	San Francisco	Recycle	Free Drop-off	Stuff clean film (saran-wrap) inside plastic bag before drop-off.
Cole Hardware	345 9th St	San Francisco	Recycle	Free Drop-off	Stuff clean film inside plastic bag before drop-off. Basketball-size amount per visit.
Safeway	4950 Mission St.	San Francisco	Recycle	Free Drop-off	Stuff clean film (saran-wrap) inside plastic bag before drop-off.
Andronico's Deli and Market	1200 Irving St.	San Francisco	Recycle	Free Drop-off	Clean, dry. Stuff clean film inside plastic bag before drop-off.
Cole Hardware, Vallejo St.	627 Vallejo St	San Francisco	Recycle	Free Drop-off	Stuff clean film inside plastic bag before drop-off. Basketball-size amount per visit.
Safeway	5290 Diamond Heights Blvd.	San Francisco	Recycle	Free Drop-off	Stuff clean film (saran-wrap) inside plastic bag before drop-off.
Cole Hardware	70 4th St.	San Francisco	Recycle	Free Drop-off	Stuff clean film inside plastic bag before drop-off. Basketball-size amount per visit.
Safeway	625 Monterey Blvd.	San Francisco	Recycle	Free Drop-off	Stuff clean film (saran-wrap) inside plastic bag before drop-off.
Cole Hardware	956 Cole St.	San Francisco	Recycle	Free Drop-off	Stuff clean film inside plastic bag before drop-off. Basketball-size amount per visit.
Safeway	730 Taraval St.	San Francisco	Recycle	Free Drop-off	Stuff clean film (saran-wrap) inside plastic bag before drop-off.
Cole Hardware	2254 Polk St.	San Francisco	Recycle	Free Drop-off	Stuff clean film inside plastic bag before drop-off. Basketball-size amount per visit.
Lucky Supermarket	1515 Sloat Blvd.	San Francisco	Recycle	Free Drop-off
Safeway	735 7th Ave.	San Francisco	Recycle	Free Drop-off	Stuff clean film (saran-wrap) inside plastic bag before drop-off.
Shoreway Environmental Center (SEC)	333 Shoreway Road	San Carlos	Landfill	Free Drop-off	Public Recycling Center
Biagini Waste Reduction Systems Inc.	1150 Hensley Street	Richmond	Recycle	Pick-up for a Fee
Pleasanton Transfer Station	3110 Busch Rd.	Pleasanton	Landfill	Drop-off for a Fee

Curbside Service

	Recycling	Garbage	Note
Alameda		Dirty, wet plastic film belongs in the trash. If collected as bag-of-bags to drop at grocery stores, must be clean and dry. Loose film jams recycling equipment. ###
Albany		###
Berkeley		Dirty, wet plastic film belongs in the trash. If collected as bag-of-bags to drop at grocery stores, must be clean and dry. Loose film jams recycling equipment. ###
Castro Valley Sanitary District	When collected as bag-of-bags for Recycling Cart/Bin or for grocery store drop-off, must be clean and dry. Loose bags jam recycling equipment. Dirty, wet plastic bags belongs in the trash. ###
Dublin		Dirty, wet plastic film belongs in the trash. If collected as bag-of-bags to drop at grocery stores, must be clean and dry. Loose film jams recycling equipment. ###
Emeryville		Dirty, wet plastic film belongs in the trash. If collected as bag-of-bags to drop at grocery stores, must be clean and dry. Loose film jams recycling equipment. ###
Fremont		Dirty, wet plastic film belongs in the trash. If collected as bag-of-bags to drop at grocery stores, must be clean and dry. Loose film jams recycling equipment. ###
Hayward		Dirty, wet plastic film belongs in the trash. If collected as bag-of-bags to drop at grocery stores, must be clean and dry. Loose film jams recycling equipment. ###
Hayward (Oro Loma - L2)		Dirty, wet plastic film belongs in the trash. If collected as bag-of-bags to drop at grocery stores, must be clean and dry. Loose film jams recycling equipment. ###
Livermore		Dirty, wet plastic film belongs in the trash. If collected as bag-of-bags to drop at grocery stores, must be clean and dry. Loose film jams recycling equipment. ###
Newark		Dirty, wet plastic film belongs in the trash. If collected as bag-of-bags to drop at grocery stores, must be clean and dry. Loose film jams recycling equipment. ###
Oakland		Dirty, wet plastic film belongs in the trash. If collected as bag-of-bags to drop at grocery stores, must be clean and dry. Loose film jams recycling equipment. ###
Piedmont	Dirty, wet plastic film belongs in the trash. Clean, dry flim/flimsy/soft plastics in a plastic bag-of-bags accepted and can be droped at grocery stores, must be clean and dry. Loose film jams recycling equipment. ###
Pleasanton		Dirty, wet plastic film belongs in the trash. If collected as bag-of-bags to drop at grocery stores, must be clean and dry. Loose film jams recycling equipment. ###
San Leandro		Dirty, wet plastic film belongs in the trash. If collected as bag-of-bags to drop at grocery stores, must be clean and dry. Loose film jams recycling equipment. ###
San Leandro (Oro Loma - L3)		Dirty, wet plastic film belongs in the trash. If collected as bag-of-bags to drop at grocery stores, must be clean and dry. Loose film jams recycling equipment. ###
San Lorenzo (Oro Loma)		Dirty, wet plastic film belongs in the trash. If collected as bag-of-bags to drop at grocery stores, must be clean and dry. Loose film jams recycling equipment. ###
Unincorporated Oro Loma (L1)		Dirty, wet plastic film belongs in the trash. If collected as bag-of-bags to drop at grocery stores, must be clean and dry. Loose film jams recycling equipment. ###
Union City		Dirty, wet plastic film belongs in the trash. If collected as bag-of-bags to drop at grocery stores, must be clean and dry. Loose film jams recycling equipment. ###

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