All users of San Joaquin County (County) disposal sites listed below must pay a disposal fee, except for those who have been authorized to use the Prepaid Deposit Plan:
The Prepaid Deposit Plan allows non-cash customers to pay an advance deposit in order to use a County disposal site without having to pay in full at the time of tipping for disposal fees. This enables the customer to "draw" from the account during the month as waste is brought to the site.
The County will keep a monthly record of the waste quantities disposed and the corresponding disposal fees associated. At the end of each month, the County will subtract the total monthly disposal fees from the advance deposit. The customer is then billed monthly for this amount. Payment is due by the end of the month in which the bill was submitted.
The amount of deposit required (for each disposal site used) is determined by the following schedule:
Prepaid Deposit Schedule
| Average Monthly Charge | Prepaid Deposit Required |
| $0 - $50 | $ 150 |
| $51 - $150 | $ 450 |
| $151 - $300 | $ 600 |
| $301 - $500 | $ 1,000 |
| $501 - $1,000 | $ 2,000 |
| Over $1,001 | Minimum of $3,000 OR average monthly charge rounded to nearest $100 |
CalMAX is a networking catalog designed to help businesses find markets for non-hazardous materials they have traditionally discarded. CalMAX helps businesses, industries, and institutions save resources and money. The old saying, "One man's trash is another man's treasure" works for businesses, schools, and industry, too!
For more information visit the California Integrated Waste Management Board at www.calrecycle.ca.gov/CalMAX/.
San Joaquin County prides itself on being a green, sustainable community. As a county, we have already achieved and surpassed California’s 50 percent waste diversion mandate, and are well on our way to meeting the 75 percent mandate before the 2020 deadline. As we look forward, new regulatory drivers, such as Assembly Bill 341 and Assembly Bill 1826, will provide the groundwork for an even more sustainable future.
Further increasing the reduction, reuse and recycling of waste in our community means that everyone will have to pitch in and re-evaluate their disposal methods. Commercial and multi-family properties, generating nearly 75% of the solid waste in California, have the greatest opportunity to reduce our waste impact. Much of this waste—consisting of 50% recyclables and 35% food waste, green waste, and other organics—can be recycled into valuable new goods and materials. For this reason, businesses and multi-family dwellings of five or more units have been required since 2012 to collect recycling, and will soon need to plan to add organics (food and green waste) recycling to their operations.
The current compliance requirements for each law are:
| Law | Jan 1, 2017 | Jan 1, 2019 |
| AB 341 - Mandatory Commercial | 4 Cubic Yards per | 4 Cubic Yards per |
AB 1826 - | 4 Cubic Yards per week of Organics | 4 Cubic Yards per week of Trash |
Also See: Master Gardener Program
The purpose of the Landscape Management Outreach Partnership (LMOP) is to diminish green waste generation and disposal in local waste sheds, assist local jurisdictions' efforts to comply with mandated diversion requirements, and promote the use of recycled organic products in urban landscapes.
The LMOP aims to:
The LMOP accomplishes this largely through offering workshops and hands-on demonstrations to public agencies, institutions, and large commercial properties. LMOP hopes to encourage landscape architects, planners, landscape contractors, and other private sector partners to reduce, reuse, or recycle urban-derived organic materials (green waste).
Some ways to achieve the reduction of green waste include waste-efficient Landscape Management Practices such as:
LMOP Goals
Green Gardener Program
A component of Delta LMOP is the Green Gardener Program.
This program provides a series of training classes, offered once per year, for landscape professionals. Successful completion of the program results in Qualification as a Green Gardener – a landscape professional trained and tested
in up-to-date environmentally-friendly landscape practices.
The Recycling Market Development Zone (RMDZ), a program of CalRecycle, provides low interest loans and marketing assistance to businesses that process recyclable materials or use them in their products. The County of San Joaquin, including its seven cities, comprises one zone. RMDZ offers information on sustainability for all San Joaquin County businesses through programs such as Green Team San Joaquin, the Green Sustainable Business Certification, green.edu, and Buy Local, Buy Green.
San Joaquin County is one of 40 designated recycling market development zones within California. The RMDZ program, developed by CalRecycle, works with local jurisdiction to help them meet their 50 percent landfill diversion goals.
San Joaquin County RMDZ Mission
To divert significant quantities of recovered resources from San Joaquin County's landfills by stimulating usage of recycled materials by manufacturers by helping create local markets for recyclables and products made from recyclable materials.
What is RMDZ?
What RMDZ Does for You
RMDZ Key Benefits That Work
Who are the Players?
Zone Administrator
Recycling-based Business
Our thanks to Greater Stockton Chamber of Commerce for the RMDZ information.
Solid Waste Administrative Office
1810 East Hazelton Avenue
Stockton, CA 95205
Phone: (209) 468-3066
Fax: (209) 468-3078
Hours: 8:00am to 5:00pm
Email us with questions at: solidwaste@sjgov.org