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Clean Earth (AERC/Veolia) (San Jose) - San Jose - 189 Stauffer Blvd
Clean Earth (AERC/Veolia) (San Jose)
189 Stauffer Blvd, San Jose, California 95125
408.295.0640
Hours:
M-F 8-3
Veolia purchased Clean Earth in 2026. Clean Earth offers comprehensive household hazardous waste (see accepted items) disposal solutions customized to your organization’s needs across a multitude of waste streams. As a full-service company, Clean Earth provides management of household, small business, and RCRA regulated wastes; consulting, remediation, transportation, and lab pack services, as well as hazardous and non-hazardous waste disposal and recycling (see accepted items).
Clean Earth’s household hazardous waste program works directly with local and state governments, Conditionally Exempt Small Quantity Generators (CESQG), and agricultural pesticide management programs throughout the United States. Our services are provided in close coordination with Clean Earth’s network of treatment and recycling facilities to include the largest network of hazardous waste TSDFs in the country, some of which specialize in aerosol, universal, and electronic waste recycling.
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| Batteries - Electric Vehicle & Bicycle | Some large lithium batteries. Batteries: alkaline, lead acid, nickel iron, silver oxide, carbon zinc, nickel cadmium, lithium ion-poly, lithium metal-alloy, nickel metal hydride. https://www.cleanearthinc.com/materials/universal-waste |
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| Batteries - Household - Rechargeable (up to 5 lbs) |
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| Batteries - Household - Single-Use |
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| Batteries - Industrial | Batteries: alkaline, lead acid, nickel iron, silver oxide, carbon zinc, nickel cadmium, lithium ion-poly, lithium metal-alloy, nickel metal hydride. https://www.cleanearthinc.com/materials/universal-waste |
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| Batteries - Solar Power Storage | Some large lithium batteries. https://www.cleanearthinc.com/materials/universal-waste |
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| Construction & Demolition Debris |
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| Electronics - Non-working | Ewaste and universal waste. Off spec, defective, damaged consumer commodities |
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| Hazardous Materials & Wastes | Clean Earth provides management of household, small business, and RCRA regulated wastes; consulting, remediation, transportation, and lab pack services, as well as hazardous and non-hazardous waste disposal and recycling. Includes: asbestos, batteries, fertilizers, propane tanks, pool chemicals, universal waste, electronic waste, photo chemicals, pharmaceuticals, aerosols, paints & solvents, fluorescent tubes & bulbs, herbicides, pesticides & poisons, motor oil & automotive products. Wastewater, water oil mixtures, flammable liquid water mixtures, bulk & non-bulk hazardous liquids, flammable or combustible liquids, manufacturing waste, industrial sludge, & drum waste |
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| Household Cleaners |
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| Light Bulbs - CFLs |
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| Light Bulbs - Fluorescent Tubes |
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| Medical Waste | lab packs, pharmaceutical waste |
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| Medications |
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| Mercury Thermostats | https://www.cleanearthinc.com/materials/universal-waste |
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| Mercury-Containing Items | Mail-in recycling kit & drop off. Mercury salts and compounds, mercury solutions, carbon, phosphor powder, soils, silver solutions, gold solutions, most all mercury apparatus, debris, and devices. https://www.cleanearthinc.com/materials/universal-waste |
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| Motor Oil |
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| Soil - Contaminated | We work hand-in-hand with defense, construction, industrial, chemical, pharmaceutical, and consumer package goods companies processing waste streams generated through their operations. (heavy metals, PCBs, and residual petrochemicals). Also, sand blast grit, foundry sand, grinding waste |
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| Solar Panels - Non-working |
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| Television - Non-working | All CRTs and Televisions must be intact. |
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