|  Another Household Hazardous Waste/E-waste Collection Event will be held Saturday, March 27 between 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at nearby Veteran's Stadium in Long Beach. Residents can safely dispose of household hazardous waste and e-waste. The entire drop-off process only takes a few minutes. Often, participants don't even have to leave their car.
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|  Lakewood residents can attend the county’s “Smart Gardening” programs and purchase home composting units for an affordable price of approximately $40.
Classes cover ways to get a great looking yard while using less water, energy and wasting fewer resources. There are basic and advanced workshops covering topics like composting, landscape design, landscaping with native friendly plants, installing a water-efficient irrigation system, and organic gardening. Click for a list of workshops
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|  CityTV Channel 31 takes a look at street sweeping and parking in a segment showing the need for clean sweeps and offers customer service tips. Click for video
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|  Free tire recycling events are run several times a year throughout the region by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Works. Click for event information and calendar The events are an opportunity to dispose of tires cluttering garages and yards in an environmentally safe manner.
The free programs save participants normal recycling fees--typically between $2.00 and $8.00 per tire. Additional incentives often include discount coupons for the purchase of Bridgestone or Firestone tires.
Residents unable to dispose of their used tires at a free drop-off event can always dispose of their tires through affordable options listed on the county website.
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|  Lakewood’s bulky item pick up program makes convenient pick ups of bulky household items, it also strongly encourages reuse of many of these same items. Many of these same items can have a second life as a beneficial donation. Reuse instead of refuse: List of organizations that accept household goods For the convenience of Lakewood residents, the city’s trash collection contractor has an additional service for large item pick up. This free service is designed to help residents dispose of certain types of bulky or awkward household items, such as old mattresses, water heaters, sofas, and chairs.
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|  Every year residents dump almost twenty times the oil spilled by the Exxon Valdez right into their own backyards.
The tanker spilled 11 million gallons. Nationwide an estimated 200 million gallons are dumped into our storm drains, backyards and landfills. Lakewood has an alternative.
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|  Lakewood’s upcoming curbside recycling program handles most home recyclables like newspaper, glass, plastic bottles, or metal containers. But, residents may still opt to take their recyclables one of the area’s many recycling centers.For the location of the collection center nearest your home, use the Lakewood’s R3 network map. It has the tools to help you recycle just about everything-- from used tires to plastic grocery bags to unwanted furniture. Click for map
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|  How does Lakewood measure up? “Green goals” are being met: ▪ Recycling used tires into street repairs since 2000 has kept nearly 1,000,000 old tires out of landfills. Nearly 90 percent of city streets – both neighborhood streets and local highways – have been repaved since 2000 using rubberized asphalt. The city invested another $2.6 million in street repairs in 2008. ▪ Over 2,000 tons of street sweepings were kept from Lakewood’s storm drains. The effectiveness of a thorough street sweeping each week increased the amount of litter cleared from Lakewood streets.
Follow the link below for more green goals.
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|  Trash, pesticides, oil, metals from automobiles, fertilizer, and other chemicals make the short trip every day from gutters and catch basins on Lakewood streets to the Los Angeles and San Gabriel river flood control channels. Propelled by excess water from lawn and garden irrigation, the toxic mess mingles with the outflow of dozens of other Los Angeles County cities and goes out to sea where it causes bacterial and algae blooms, concentrates in local sea life, and lingers in toxic sediments.
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|  Lakewood's street sweepers run clean on CNG.
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Contacts
Recycling opportunities in Lakewood, including the location of specialized collection centers, call the city’s R3 coordinator at 866-9771, extension 2500.
Recycling Centers Map
Dial-A-Dump bulky item collection, call a Lakewood Service Request Representative at 866-9771, extension 2140.
Trash collection questions, including Dial-A-Dump bulky item collection, call a Lakewood Service Request Representative at 866-9771, extension 2140.
Trash billing, call the Administrative Services Department at 866-9771, extension 2630.
Dumpster/roll-off bin rental
EDCO Disposal Service
www.edcodisposal.com
562-531-3054
Recycling and
hazardous waste
Household Hazardous and Electronic Waste Round-up Schedule
Los Angeles County Environmental
Programs 1-888-CLEAN-LA
Oil recycling collection centers
Lakewood Department of Public Works
562-866-9771, extension 2500
Illegal dumping/discharge into storm drains
Illegal Dumping Incident Report
1-888-CLEAN LA or 323-890-4317
Clogged storm drain catch basins
Lakewood Department of Public Works
562-866-9771, extension 2500
Hazardous materials spills
Lakewood Department of Public Works
562-866-9771, extension 2500
Statewide recycling information
Beverage containers
1-800-RECYCLE
Earth 911 Environmental Hotline
1-800-CLEAN-UP
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