Davis Waste Removal - Davis Wiki

Location

2727 2nd Street (For CRV buyback)

Hours

Mon-Fri 9:30am - 2:00pm

Sat 8:00am - 4:00pm

Phone

(530)756-4646

Website

http://www.dwrco.com

In November of 2004 the town was a-twitter with the distribution of new garbage cans and recycling cans. Now you can see them all over town, on garbage pick-up day. No more unsightly, unmatched garbage cans provided by Davis Waste Removal. Now, unsightly, matched garbage cans. StevenDaubert speculates that maybe it was cheaper to buy everyone in town a new trash can and recycle bin plus a brand new fleet than it was to pay the workers comps on the guys who used to drive and had to heft each can into the truck.

DWR CRV Buyback Center

You can take your plastic bottles and aluminum cans to the DWR buyback center listed above and redeem a portion of the CRV. CRV redemption used to be 2.5 cents per container under 32oz, now it's a 5 and 10 cents refund per container.

**NOTE: It appears that if you bring in a lot of cans, they do it by weight instead of per can. I brought in one big black garbage bag full of crushed cans, a smaller white bag and about 7 grocery bags full of uncrushed cans which weighed about 50 pounds total. I got a total of $77.47. Their price of aluminum is $1.54/lb as of July 2009.
-brookeb

Davis Waste Removal has recycling drop-boxes available for people to bring their recycling 24/7. There are separate drop boxes to recycle these items:

DWR Recycling Drop Boxes

Scrap Metal
Aluminum Cans
Paper
Cardboard and Brown Paper
Plastics #1 and #2 (household and beverage containers only)
Rigid plastics #3, #5, #6, and #7 (also rigid plastics #1 and #2 like flower pots, just no beverage containers etc.)
Glass bottles and jars
Tin cans, Foil and Pie Tins

Davis Waste Removal also accepts used motor oil and oil filters for recycling. More about used oil recycling.

For more information about what items DWR accepts for recycling, check out the City of Davis Recycling Website.

Trash is taken to the Yolo County Central Landfill. DWR also picks up green waste.

Watch their website for information about their Bulky Items Drop-Off Days.

DWR not only promotes good things like recycling, they also sponsor the Davis Bike Club.

Unlike the Yolo County Central Landfill, they are happy when you take scrap from them. This supports constructions of many bicycle-contraptions. To encourage such behavior, they hold days when they'll leave stuff out in front and you can go and choose whatever you like. But be sure to follow the rules as posted on the signs.

See also City Services

Media

2008 Feature — 2008 story in Davis Life Magazine including an interview with DWR's operations manager John Giesler.

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2008-11-25 20:57:45 If you live in Davis, this is a great service to be able to recycle your own items by dropping them off for free. If you are moving out, come by this location and get some boxes for free. Believe me, since moving back to my hometown in Southern California, I truly miss this place and this service. Yay for do-it-yourself hassle-free recycling!! —BenjaminCatabas

2009-05-22 15:46:54 today, we only filled up a trash can and 1/4 worth of plastic bottles. my cynical room mate thought i was going to only get two dollars for it, but in the end, i got a hefty 7 dollars. mind you this is only a can and a quarter full of bottles, thats easily a weeks worth if you live with soda drinkers and people who dont trust davis' water. —chand3123k