Curbside Food Composting Tips

Sep 11, 2025 | Uncategorized

BEAT THE “ICK” FACTOR! Reduce moisture and odors in your pail or cart by adding soiled paper (like napkins or paper towels), wrapping your food scraps in newspaper, or using a paper bag. You can also freeze your food scraps and then put them in the cart on...

Compost it.

Sep 11, 2025 | Compost

  Napa City and County residents threw out 8% less trash – and composted nearly 19,000 more tons – during the first ten years of the food composting program. Thanks for helping reduce waste, decrease emissions and create local organic compost! But, we can do...

NapaSan Pet Medications

Sep 11, 2025 | Contamination

Keeping your pets healthy and your home safe doesn’t have to come at the cost of water quality. Did you know that some common flea and tick treatments—like spot-on medications, collars, sprays, and foggers—can transfer harmful pesticides from your pet to you,...

Free Curbside Oil Recycling + Motor Oil and Filter Collection Sites

Sep 11, 2025 | Recycle

Motor oil never wears out — it just gets dirty. It can be recycled over and over! So, you probably already know that the only legal way to dispose of used oil and oil filters is to recycle them…but did you know that they can be picked up for free? If you have...

Avoid the Spark: Be Battery Safety Smart

Sep 11, 2025 | Hazardous Waste, Tips

Batteries cannot go in the recycling, trash or compost carts! Multiple times in the past few years, misplaced batteries have started fires at our facilities and in our trucks. Luckily they were put out quickly, but fires from lithium ion batteries – the ones in your...