Stanislaus County, CA Trash & Recycling: Recycling Requirements (2026)

Recycling in unincorporated Stanislaus County operates through the franchised haulers and is reinforced by California state law. Residents who subscribe to garbage service receive curbside recycling pickup. The cart configuration depends on the hauler: Bertolotti Disposal and Turlock Scavenger provide a 96-gallon blue cart (Turlock uses 90-gallon) for glass, plastic, cardboard, aluminum, and other recyclables, collected every other week, while Gilton Solid Waste does not provide a separate recycling cart and instead places "all other nonhazardous garbage and recyclables" in the black cart. Accepted curbside recyclables include flattened cardboard, mixed paper (catalogs, magazines, junk mail), rinsed cans (aluminum and tin), rinsed glass bottles and jars, and plastic bottles and jugs. On the commercial side, California's Mandatory Commercial Recycling law (AB 341) requires qualifying businesses to arrange recycling service, and SB 1383 layers on a requirement that businesses in affected census tracts subscribe to inorganic (recycling) as well as organic service. The County implements these through its franchise system; SB 1383's inorganic-recycling and organics requirements took effect January 1, 2022 for Bertolotti and Gilton and March 1, 2022 for Turlock Scavenger. Note that AB 341 and SB 1383 are state mandates administered by CalRecycle; the County's role is implementing and enforcing them locally.