Yolo County Central Landfill

Active area of landfill has lots of birds

Location

44090 County Road 28H, Woodland, CA 95776

Hours

Mon-Sat 6:30am-4pm Sun 9am-5pm

Phone

(530)666-8729

Website

Yolo County Central Landfill from DavisRecycling.org

Yolo County Central Landfill from yolocounty.org

The central landfill for the county is located off on County Road 28H off of County Road 102 (or Pole Line Rd. inside Davis) just north of the city limits (map). Aside from taking the trash from Davis Waste Removal, it offers a variety of recycling and hazardous waste services as well. The landfill is owned and managed by Yolo County but it has no formal agreements with any of the cities it serves, though the Yolo County Board of Supervisors is looking to change this. The county itself only contributes 8% of total waste tonnage while Woodland contributes 32%, West Sacramento 24%, and Davis 22%.¹

Most of it is covered... except for the appliance recyclables and the nearly empty Leachate Pond at YCCL

Hazardous Waste Drop-Off Days

Every month (starting in Jan 2007), Yolo County offers free household hazardous waste disposal at the central landfill. Automotive fluids, fluorescent lights, paint, pool chemicals, and other materials you should not be throwing in the trash or dumping down the drain are accepted up to a certain amount as long as you are a County resident. http://www.yolocounty.org/recycle/docs/HHW.pdf and http://www.dwrco.com/drop-off.htm have dates and other important information. Volunteer opportunities are available.

The landfill will also accept certain materials for recycling, including the usual paper/plastic/aluminum that the local trash pick-up handles. They will also take electronics, in particular CRT televisions and CRT computer monitors which contain large amounts of lead and other toxic chemicals. This is a free service available every day the landfill is open. Check the website as the items recycled is always expanding (more electrical and electronic items were recently added to the recycling, so bring that dead vacuum).

This is also the site of one of the EPA's Project XL bioreactor projects. The Yolo landfill started with two 10,000 ton demonstration plots in 1993 has has since scaled up to two 100,000 ton cells. They work by circulating liquid throughout the solid waste, considerably speeding up decomposition and allowing for greater utilization of landfill space. Yolo uses an anaerobic bioreactor, which forces decomposition in the absence of oxygen and releases large amounts of methane gas that can be captured and used for energy generation. The current set up can generate approximately 3 Mwatts which is sold to Southern California Edison. The current power generation set up makes money for the county, which is used to keep the fees for dumping at the landfill as low as possible (so people dump there and not on the side of the road).

Some materials can be taken to Woodland Biomass instead.

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2006-09-29 18:55:59   The Yolo County Landfill only accepts cash or checks as payment, according to their website. What they did not mention, which I found out today, is that they do not accept "starter checks," the checks must have the name and other info printed on them. Don't switch your bank account and then go to the dump. A lot of trouble for a $12 fee. —KarlMogel

2006-12-26 16:53:21   Ugh, I had to take something to the dump since they wouldn't pick it up in Davis. Don't do it unless you have to. Davis Waste Managment has all these "awkward items" days, the dump was gross, and I had to get out on this mountain of trash. It was slippery, stinky and I'm not really a total priss, I just didn't want to fall into the foul smelling mountain o' trash/mud. —AmyGoogenspa

2007-03-06 09:03:40   Just a quick thought on AmyG's comment...Those hills that encompass the Landfill are infact, giant piles of the garbage you throw away, every day. Please reduce, reuse, and recycle as much as you can. —RocksandDirt Full Disclosure - I work for the landfill —Rocksanddirt

• Your point is moot considering that her trash is a very small portion of that whole entire landfill, much less even a smaller portion of that "mountain" of trash. You cannot recycle everything either, so we would still need landfills, even if we recycled everything that we could.
  

2009-03-23 12:42:45   Update to Karl's comment....the scalehouse now takes visa, mc, and discover cards. —RocksandDirt

2009-07-23 14:56:12   They take computer components free of charge (That's why there's an $8 recycling fee when you purchase a new laptop or monitor or flatscreen TV. A kinda response to Karl: Also, don't pay in change. They don't like that. I paid in... I think it was rolls of dimes and they had me wait while they opened the rolls to count the change. —MasonMurray