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Composting is a natural process by which organic materials decompose. Composting is nature’s way of recycling organic material such as leaves, grass clippings, twigs, fruits, and vegetables into a dark, crumbly, earthy-smelling soil conditioner. By concentrating the activity in one place and balancing food, air, and water, compost happens faster. Residential Organics Does EMADCO offer Residential Organic (Yard/Food) Waste Collection? EMADCO now offers a subscription-based weekly organic (yard/food) waste collection service for customers living in certain parts of the community. The service includes a 64-gallon green cart picked up weekly for $32.12 /month Check If You’re in the Organics Recycling Area Click below to check if your address is subject to organics recycling under SB1383. SB1383 Address Lookup Enter your street number, then select your full address from the list. If your location is within the highlighted zones on the map, you are subject to the organics recycling requirements. This GIS tool also shows areas covered by local franchise agreements. If you have questions, feel free to contact us. Click image to download a pdf of this document. Frequently Ask Questions - ORGANIC COLLECTION Why is EMADCO offering this service? We are now offering a residential organic recycling program to comply with the statewide organics recycling mandate (SB 1383). How will I know if I am required to have residential organic service? Madera county along with EMADCO will be notifying all households that are required to participate in the program. Read/Download a copy of this letter. Why are we collecting organic waste now? The State of California set a goal to reduce 75% of organic waste (food scraps and yard waste) sent to landfills by 2025. This goal helps reduce the amount of greenhouse gases emitted by food and plant waste rotting in landfills. Instead, the organic waste will be transformed into compost. What happens to my food and yard waste after they are collected? Organic waste is hauled to Kerman and processed into nutrient-rich compost that will be reused in home gardens, parks, and agriculture. Can I bag my organics before putting them in the bin? Please do not place any type of bag (paper, plastic, or biodegradable) in the green organics bin. How should I collect food scraps in my kitchen? Find a container (preferably with a lid) to keep on your kitchen countertop or near your sink to collect food scraps. Collect all food scraps in the container and empty it as needed into your green organics cart. Do not use any type of bag or plastic Add yard waste, if any, and place the cart at the curb every week. What types of organic wastes are accepted in my green organics bin? Food scraps and yard waste, including: Fruits & vegetables Bread, pasta, & other grains Dairy products Eggshells Cooked meats & bones Shellfish All prepared foods Grass clippings Weeds Flowers Leaves and branches Coffee grounds & paper coffee filters Paper tea bags (no staples)

EMADCO Disposal Services Has Been Serving the Mountain Community for over 40 Years 1/4 Have a Recycling Question? About Recycling FAQs Contact Us Pay Bill Online All business owners & the public are welcome to attend the event. Free drinks and hot dogs will be provided during the event. Residential & Commercial Organic recycling workshop Emadco staff will be hosting an organic recycling information & education workshop on Thursday 3rd of July, 12:00pm - 1:00pm 40287 Oak Park Way, Oakhurst FREE HAZARDOUS WASTE DROP-OFF DATE: Saturday, July 12 Yosemite High School 50200 School Road, Oakhurst More information Mandatory Organics Recycling Law Download Madera County AB1826 Business Compliance Verification Form Click here for more Information Star Organic Service Click here for more information on the Organic service we will be offering July 1st, 2025

Commercial Organic Recycling Madera County Edible Food Recovery Organizations and Services Senate Bill 1383 - Edible Food Recovery Program Download PDF for information on locations serving Madera County For more information visit

Residential Collection EMADCO has been providing courteous and dependable curbside collection to homes in Eastern Madera County for over 50 years. Using modern automated collection vehicles, our safe and Friendly drivers provide dependable waste and recycling collection. When you sign up for EMADCO's basic Residential Service you will be provided with: a 64 gallon black trash container (toter) that gets serviced weekly a 96 gallon blue recycling container (toter) that will be picked up every two weeks. Our intricate recycling process begins the moment we collect your discarded materials. After being picked up from your location the materials are taken down to a recycling facility to be sorted. Sorted materials are then distributed to mills and manufactures worldwide for remanufacturing. Keeping your waste out of the landfill helps Reduces the amount of waste sent to landfills and incinerators; Conserves natural resources such as timber, water, and minerals; Prevents pollution by reducing the need to collect new raw materials; Saves energy; Reduces greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global climate change; Helps sustain the environment for future generations; Helps create new well-paying jobs in the recycling and manufacturing industries in the United States. Please contact our office for pricing and service dates for your area (559) 683-4680 Cancellation policy - If at any time after the first three months you need to cancel your service it us your responsibility to contact the office and schedule your last day of service. At that time we will also schedule a time to pick up the black and blue toters. The set has a cost of $195.00 that will be billed to you if the set is not returned at end of service. HOLIDAY SERVICE - EMADCO disposal is only closed for three holidays a year. The holidays are Christmas, New Years and Thanksgiving. If your pick up day falls on one of these days your trash will be picked up the following day. The holiday schedule will be available on our website, feel free to call the office to clarify your pick up day during the holiday season. You may also contact our office at (559)683-4680 at any time for any questions. Residential Organic (Yard/Food) Waste Collection EMADCO now offers a subscription-based weekly organic (yard/food) waste collection service for customers living in certain parts of the community. Madera county along with EMADCO will be notifying all households that are required to participate in the program. Download a copy of this letter. Maximum Weight Limits: 64 gallon carts: 100 lbs 96 gallon carts: 100 lbs "To avoid exceeding the weight limitation of the cart, or causing possible damage to the cart or collection vehicle, do not place rocks, concrete, bricks or dirt inside carts. Any items placed within the cart must fall out easily when the cart is being serviced. Please do not overfill or tightly pack items into the cart. If the cart exceeds the weight limitation, the driver will attempt service and will notify the resident of the problem by leaving a "Non-Collection Notice" attached to the cart. However, if we are unable to empty the cart, the cart will be tagged as "overweight".

Business Recycling Requires all businesses that generate four or more cubic yards of garbage per week and multi-family dwellings with five or more units to recycle. Mandatory Recycling AB341 Governor Brown signed legislation AB341 which increases the state of California's waste diversion goal from 50 percent to 75 percent. The law requires California commercial enterprises and public entities that generate four or more cubic yards per week of waste, and multi-family housing complexes (such as apartment buildings and mobile home parks) with five or more units to adopt recycling practices. The purpose of the law is to : Reduce garbage heading to the landfills Reduce greenhouse gas emissions Conserve resources and increase the availability of materials for recycled-content manufactures Compliance with AB341 is easy with Emadco All of us at Emadco recognize that change can be disruptive, especially to your business and your bottom line. This is why Emadco is proud to be working along side our AB341 customers to make the transition to greener , cleaner waste disposal practices simple , cost efficient and seamless. Emadco brings over 40 years of industry knowledge to work for you by utilizing our relationships with county government and CalRecycle to ensure that we are up to date with current guidelines and able to provide the services and documentation you need to meet and exceed AB341 requirements. *Emadco offers commercial collection for all businesses on a Monday through Saturday basis. Recycling is the law To make sure you are in compliance with AB341 please contact Emadco Click image to download a pdf of this document. To learn more about AB341 law visit the CalRecycle website Follow them on Business Recycling Guide - What Can & Can't go in the Recycling Dumpster! State Law now requires all businesses that accumulate 4 or more cubic yards of weekly waste to recycle. Emadco is offering free recycling audits, which involves closely reviewing a work location’s overall waste stream to identify material that can be recycled. The information gained from the analysis will provide Emadco with the information needed to create a comprehensive recycling program that specifically meets your company’s needs. For customers looking to become compliant with the state mandated AB341 Law please contact our recycling manager . All Recyclables go in recycling dumpster, No sorting! All plastic bottles, cups & tubs Glass, bottles & jars Aluminum/tin cans & foil Mail, magazines & office paper Phonebooks & newspapers Food boxes & paper packaging Cardboard YES Paper Newspapers Magazines Catalogs Phone books Cardboard Milk cartons Drink boxes Scrap paper Shredded paper Clean pizza boxes Plastic Milk, juice, and cooking oil jugs Soda and water bottles Plastic cups & bags Household cleaning containers Shampoo, lotion, and soap bottles Margarine and ice cream tubs Yogurt cups & frozen food containers Clean plastic flower pots Glass Glass jars and bottles Metal Soda & juice aluminum cans Clean tin/steel food cans Aluminum foil, pie pans & trays Metal jar lids in flattened cans Copper, brass & aluminum Empty aerosol cans Newly emptied, clean latex paint cans NO WHEN IN DOUBT, LEAVE IT OUT! For more information contact us . Styrofoam Clothes Needles or syringes Food waste Green Waste Waxed cardboard Windows & mirrors Latex or plastic gloves Tissue paper Electronics Diapers Garden Hoses PVC Pipe Wire Rope Click image to download a pdf of this document. Commercial Recycling Collection We believe that sending reusable resources to the landfill is not only bad for the environment, it is bad for business. By working with us, you not only increase revenue, you also make a strong statement to your customers and staff that you care about the environment. Our extensive waste audits and ongoing support provide your staff with tools they need to make your program work. Regional Recycling Center

More than 300 million pounds of carpet are buried in California landfills every year, where it stays for centuries without breaking down. But there is a better way: recycling. Carpet Recycling in Madera County, CA Is Your Carpet Ready for Recycling? Follow these simple steps to prepare carpet for recycling: Step 1: Keep it Dry. Step 2: Keep it Debris Free. Remove tack strips, nails, trash and dirt Step 3: Prepare the Carpet. • Cut carpet into manageable sections • Separate carpet from pad • Roll carpet • Roll, stack or fold carpet pad • Stack carpet tile Step 4: Recycle Carpet at: Emadco Disposal Service 40287 Oak Park Way, Oakhurst (559) 683-4680 Mon - Fri 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. More than 300 million pounds of carpet are buried in California landfills every year, where it stays for centuries without breaking down. But there is a better way: recycling. Recycling carpet saves natural resources, conserves landfill space, and reduces dependency on fossil fuels. Old carpet can be recycled and made into useful new products, like traffic signs, insulation, new carpet and carpet padding. In 2010 California passed a Carpet Stewardship law to increase carpet recycling. Since then over 100 million pounds of carpet have been diverted from our landfills and recycled. By working together, we can do more! This program is supported by Carpet America Recovery Effort (CARE). CARE works to create market-based solutions to increase carpet recycling and divert carpet from landfill. Thank you for recycling! Why Recycle Carpet? More Information: CarpetRecovery.org/CA

Apartment Recycling Requires all businesses that generate four or more cubic yards of garbage per week and multi-family dwellings with five or more units to recycle. Mandatory Recycling AB341 Governor Brown signed legislation AB341 which increases the state of California's waste diversion goal from 50 percent to 75 percent. The law requires California commercial enterprises and public entities that generate four or more cubic yards per week of waste, and multi-family housing complexes (such as apartment buildings and mobile home parks) with five or more units to adopt recycling practices. The purpose of the law is to : Reduce garbage heading to the landfills Reduce greenhouse gas emissions Conserve resources and increase the availability of materials for recycled-content manufactures Compliance with AB341 is easy with Emadco All of us at Emadco recognize that change can be disruptive, especially to your business and your bottom line. This is why Emadco is proud to be working along side our AB341 customers to make the transition to greener , cleaner waste disposal practices simple , cost efficient and seamless. Emadco brings over 40 years of industry knowledge to work for you by utilizing our relationships with county government and CalRecycle to ensure that we are up to date with current guidelines and able to provide the services and documentation you need to meet and exceed AB341 requirements. Recycling is the law To make sure you are in compliance with AB341 please contact Emadco. Click image to download a pdf of this document. To learn more about AB341 law visit the CalRecycle website Follow them on Apartment Recycling Guide - What Can & Can't go in the Recycling Dumpser! In recognition that multi-family recycling programs are extremely important for California's continued success in waste reduction, State Law now requires that apartment communities/multi-family housing with 5 or more units must recycle. For additional information about recycling and waste reduction please contact us. All Recyclables go in recycling dumpster, No sorting! All plastic bottles, cups & tubs Glass, bottles & jars Aluminum/tin cans & foil Mail, magazines & office paper Phonebooks & newspapers Food boxes & paper packaging Cardboard YES Paper Newspapers Magazines Catalogs Phone books Cardboard Milk cartons Drink boxes Scrap paper Shredded paper Clean pizza boxes Plastic Milk, juice, and cooking oil jugs Soda and water bottles Plastic cups & bags Household cleaning containers Shampoo, lotion, and soap bottles Margarine and ice cream tubs Yogurt cups & frozen food containers Clean plastic flower pots Glass Glass jars and bottles Metal Soda & juice aluminum cans Clean tin/steel food cans Aluminum foil, pie pans & trays Metal jar lids in flattened cans Copper, brass & aluminum Empty aerosol cans Newly emptied, clean latex paint cans Click image to download a pdf of this document. NO WHEN IN DOUBT, LEAVE IT OUT! For more information contact us . Styrofoam Clothes Needles or syringes Food waste Green Waste Waxed cardboard Windows & mirrors Latex or plastic gloves Tissue paper Electronics Diapers Garden Hoses PVC Pipe Wire Rope

Click image to download a pdf of this document. Sharps Drop Off Emadco has a 24-hour sharps drop off location conveniently located at: 40287 Oak Park Way Oakhurst, CA 93644 Protect yourself, your neighbors and our workers by properly disposing of medical waste. Improper sharps disposal can affect janitors, maids, pest control workers, groundskeepers, waste management workers, and children or household pets among others. Roughly 25% to 45% of all facilities processing household trash (besides recycling) in California have workers hand-sorting recyclable material out of that trash. A single worker’s on-the-job needlestick can mean weeks of taking drugs to prevent the spread of infection, with side effects including nausea, depression, and extreme fatigue as well as months waiting for expensive periodic tests to reveal whether they contracted life-threatening HIV/AIDs or hepatitis B or C. A 2008 study suggested that "nationwide each year 25%... or roughly 150,000 to 200,000 needlesticks occurred outside the health services industry for a cost of $38 million." The Law State law (H&SC §118286) makes it illegal to dispose of home-generated sharps waste (hypodermic needles, pen needles, intravenous needles, lancets, and other devices that are used to penetrate the skin for the delivery of medications) in the trash or recycling containers, and requires that all sharps waste be transported to a collection center in a sharps container approved by the local enforcement agency.

Click image to download a pdf of this document. Commercial Organics AB 1826 California's Mandatory Organics Recycling Law for Commercial Businesses All commercial customers generating 2 yards of waste or more per week are required to fill out the "Madera County 1826 Business Compliance Verification” form . Download and complete your AB1826 Verification Form Read: Madera County Letter to Emadco Customers Technical Assistance Emadco’s Zero Waste Team can help your business implement programs that can help you monitor food waste, recycling programs, set up donation services. Increase employee participation and more. To learn more about AB1826 law visit the CalRecycle website Follow them on Emadco is offering organic collection as an option for your business or if you prefer to handle your organic waste in another manner the form contains a space for you to describe your process. *Emadco offers commercial collection for all businesses on a Monday through Saturday basis. What is Organic Waste? Organic waste as defined in the law includes the following material: food waste, green waste, landscape and pruning waste, nonhazardous waste, and food-soiled paper waste that is mixed in with food waste. These categories represent the largest subsets of organic waste that is currently disposed in California. ORGANIC WASTE EXAMPLES Green Waste Grass Clippings Leaves and Branches Flower and Hedge Trimmings Weeds Food Scraps Fruits and Vegetables Cheese and Dairy Meat, Bones, Poultry and Seafood Food-Soiled Paper Food-Stained Paper Napkins and Paper Kitchen Towels How to Comply? To comply with AB1826 the law requires qualifying businesses and multi-family complexes to have a collection service. Emadco will provide assistance for on-site assessments, cost estimates, indoor containers and appropriate plastic bags for collecting organic material, staff training and promotional and educational materials. Why is Food Waste Recycling Important? On average, a restaurant disposes of more than 50 tons of organic waste per year. 76% of this waste is organic and can be recycled. However, if not hauled an processed by a permitted food waste recycling company like Emadco Disposal, 100% would be sent to a landfill. What happens to Organic Waste? The collected material is brought to a compost facility, where it is processed into nutrient rich compost for agricultural end-users. Background and Overview In October of 2014 Governor Brown signed AB 1826 Chesbro (Chapter 727, Statutes of 2014) , requiring businesses to recycle their organic waste on and after April 1, 2016, depending on the amount of waste they generate per week. This law also requires that on and after January 1, 2016, local jurisdictions across the state implement an organic waste recycling program to divert organic waste generated by businesses, including multifamily residential dwellings that consist of five or more units (please note, however, that, multifamily dwellings are not required to have a food waste diversion program). Organic waste (also referred to as organics throughout this resource) means food waste, green waste, landscape and pruning waste, nonhazardous wood waste, and food-soiled paper waste that is mixed in with food waste. This law phases in the mandatory recycling of commercial organics over time, while also offering an exemption process for rural counties. In particular, the minimum threshold of organic waste generation by businesses decreases over time, which means that an increasingly greater proportion of the commercial sector will be required to comply. Benefits of Organic Food Waste Recycling with Emadco Waste Management Increase landfill diversion rates Implement a cost-effective, environmentally-friendly disposal option Foster a green image among your employees and customers. Find out more about AB 1826 Mandatory Commercial Organics Recycling visit the CalRecycle website To learn more about AB1826 law visit the CalRecycle website Follow them on If you are unsure if you are required to participate in the recycling program please contact our office to schedule a free site audit. Click image to download a pdf of this document.

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Commercial Refuse Collection Today many businesses are seeking to reduce their waste management costs. EMADCO provides innovative, efficient, environmentally friendly waste recovery solutions that have minimal impact to your everyday business operations. *Emadco offers commercial collection for all businesses on a Monday through Saturday basis. An EMADCO consultant can assess your needs and design a general waste recovery plan to meet your requirements. Please contact us (559) 683-4680

Changes to Online Payments Hello! We have a new billing software system. Here’s how to access your account and manage your payments securely. Account Login Click the "Account Login" button above to go to our payment portal. Log in with: New Account Number: [Your account number] Password: Last 4 digits of the phone number associated with your account Set Up or Update AutoPay New AutoPay Setup: Log in to your account to add your payment information and enable AutoPay. Existing Bank Setup: If your AutoPay is through your bank, update it with your new account number to ensure payments go through. Payment Options Online: Log in to make a payment anytime. By Mail: Send checks to: Emadco Disposal Service PO Box 2386, Oakhurst, CA 93664. For assistance, email support@emadcodisposal.com or call 559-683-4680 (8am-4pm, Mon-Fri).