Inc. Calsan trucks pick up trash from residents, businesses and industrial customers weekly. Items such as newspaper, cans, bottles, yard waste and cardboard are bundled together, then shipped to processing facilities where they are made into new items. No special containers or sorting are required.
Residents can simply throw their trash away as usual.
Under this law, all California cities were required to divert 25 percent of their waste stream from landfills by 1995, and by 50 percent by the year 2000. Cerritos is succeeding in these goals. Each year, the MRF system diverts more than 15,000 tons of Cerritos trash from landfills, enough to fill 1,500 trash trucks. End to end, these trucks would span 11 miles. Even with this unique, convenient and effective recycling system, Cerritos trash collection rates are among the lowest in Southeast Los Angeles County.