Upper Valley Disposal & Recycling provides collection of compostable materials like yard waste, food waste and food-soiled papers.
Our Food Scraps Compost program is available for our restaurants and businesses with a commercial kitchen.
As of January 1, 2022, you must sort your recyclables and organic waste including paper, cardboard, yard waste, food scraps, and food soiled paper from the garbage. It’s the law!
Did you know that Up Valley customers can now put food scraps and food-soiled paper along with yard trimmings in their compost carts for curbside collection AND it’s now the law?
As of January 1, 2022, a new law (SB 1383) requires that all Californian’s properly sort their organic waste for composting from materials that go to the landfill. Compost collection service is included as part of your commercial service package with Upper Valley Disposal & Recycling.
Visit our Commercial Service Information page to review the container options and set out rules for commercial customers.
The average up valley resident generates 4.5 pounds of trash per day. Of that 4.5 pounds, approximately one third is compostable organic material.
If all UVD&R household customers composted, that would mean 548 pounds of organic material per person annually were no longer wasted in landfills. That would be about 11,000 TONS per year in total!
When organic materials end up in landfills, they generate methane, a powerful greenhouse gas. UVD&R’s compost facility instead turns this valuable material into organic compost. When compost is used in landscape and agriculture it builds soil nutrients, conserves water, and reduces the need for fertilizers.
Put all your yard waste, food scraps & food soiled paper into your green cart(s). Do not overfill; make sure that the lid closes securely when placed at the curb for collection. Please remember that any materials extending beyond the rim of any cart will be subject to an extra charge or your cart not being picked up.
These materials can be placed in the yard waste/food scraps cart(s).
These materials can be placed in the yard waste/food scraps cart(s).
If you choose to collect food scraps with compostable bags, they must meet Biodegradable Products Institute (BPI) standards and show the BPI symbol.
Bags can be purchased at:
We know that it can be difficult to determine what materials are compostable. All materials in the green carts or compost bins go to the Upper Valley Composting Facility where they are made into a nutrient rich soil amendment, compost that is used to grow our food and grapes for the wine we may drink. Contamination is very hard to remove once it is in the compost container.
Contaminants can have serious negative consequences for a compost program. Here are just a few examples:
Contamination is the term used to describe materials that should NOT go into the compost containers. Besides ruining good material, contamination increases labor costs at processing facilities and results in less organic compost being made.
Compost carts WILL NOT be emptied if contaminated with trash or non-compostable materials.
If the driver notices contamination, he/she may not be able to empty your container. If this happens, the driver will take a picture and enter a code in the on-board computer to let the office know the cart was “skipped” due to contamination. You will receive a call from our office so they can let you know what the driver found and help provide more education so it does not happen in the future.
In some case, the driver may be able to also leave a Non-Collection Notice VIOLATION TAG will be left on the container letting you know why the cart was not collected and an OOPS TAG which will tell you what contamination was found so will know the next time. You will then be given the opportunity to clean up the container so it can be emptied on your next service say. Or you may opt to request a special pickup (for a fee) after removing the contaminants from the container.
The Food Scraps Compost program (available only for restaurants and businesses with a commercial kitchen) is offered at no additional cost if the containers stay clean without contamination (i.e., plastic, glass, garbage, etc.).
Separate all food scraps and food soiled paper and place in the designated 64-gallon food scrap cart(s) for collection.
We make every effort to emptying your container(s) on your service day, but on occasion, we may miss you. We apologize if this happens.
Dispose of materials like batteries, paints and household cleaners properly at the Napa County HHW Facility.
We sell compost made from the food scraps and yard waste we collect.
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Upper Valley Disposal & Recycling (UVD&R)
Clover Flat Resource Recovery Park
We’ve been serving the Upper Napa Valley community for over almost 60 years. Both companies are environmental leaders recognized for their innovation and ingenuity by National Geographic, California Department of Food & Agriculture, CalRecycle, OMRI, among others.
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