The City of La Quinta contracts with Burrtec Waste and Recycling Services for residential and commercial trash collection. Additional services include bulky items pickup, residential recycling, business recycling, green waste, administering used motor oil and filter recycling events, managing buy-back recycling centers, providing backyard composting information, and administering household hazardous waste collection events. For further information regarding residential waste and recycling services offered to La Quinta residents please click here.
La Quinta residents may now drop off their household hazardous waste on Saturdays from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the Palm Desert Recycling Center which is located at 41-800 Corporate Way. Items which may be recycled at that facility include: used oil and filters, batteries, florescent or mercury light tubes, and e-waste (old computers, monitors and printers).
New Household Hazardous Waste Facility in Palm Springs
The new facility to dispose of Household Hazardous Waste is now available to all Coachella Valley residents every non-holiday Saturday, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The facility is located at 1100 Vella Road, Palm Springs, just south of E. Mesquite Avenue. For more information, visit http://www.rivcowm.org/hhw_schedule.htm
For additional information regarding Burrtec Waste and Recycling Services click here. For information regarding the free "Sharps" program for La Quinta residents which safely disposes of used needles, click here. For information on disposing of medicines, click here.
For construction and demolition debris recycling information, please click below:
Construction & Demolition Debris (English) | Construction & Demolition Debris (Spanish)
Other Important Waste & Recycling Links including Household Hazardous Waste:
The United Stated Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) provides information on used oil management. To be directed to the website:
http://www.epa.gov/epawaste/conserve/materials/usedoil/index.htm
CalRecycle (formerly California Integrated Waste Management Board) promotes a zero waste California. For information on how to stop receiving junk mail, visit their site. For other State sites promoting zero waste, visit http://zerowaste.ca.gov/AudioVideo/ or CALMAX
Riverside County Waste Management Department provides information on Backyard Composting Workshops. For more information on recycling and composting at home, click here.
For tips on how to green specific areas of your life, visit http://earth911.com/outreach/videos which provides 13 one-minute teaching videos.
To contact the City of La Quinta City Manager's Office:
email:citymanagersoffice@la-quinta.org
or call:(760) 777-7035