Facility details
- Address
- 703 Pacific Ave
Santa Cruz, CA 95060 - Phone
- (831) 295-8294
- Website
- compost.bike
- Facility type
- Recycling
- County
- Santa Cruz County
- EPA Region
- 9
- Data sources
- Overture Maps 2026-05-20
- Last verified
- 2026-10-09
About this facility
A recycling center collects, sorts and prepares recoverable materials so they can be sold to mills and manufacturers instead of being landfilled. Some are public drop-off sites run by a city, county or hauler; others are commercial buy-back yards or processing plants that take material from collection routes and businesses. What a given site handles depends on its equipment and the markets it sells into, so one center may focus on cardboard and containers while another takes only scrap metal. Many sites pay for certain materials and charge for others. Hours, fees and accepted materials vary — call ahead to confirm what is taken, how it must be sorted and whether there is a minimum quantity.
Typically accepted at Recycling Center facilities
- Cardboard and mixed paper
- Plastic bottles and containers
- Aluminum and steel cans
- Glass bottles and jars
- Scrap metal
- Electronics (at some sites)
Hours, fees and accepted materials vary by site — call ahead before hauling a load.
Nearby facilities
- Santa Cruz Resource Recovery Facility MRF 4.4 mi · Santa Cruz, CA
- City of Santa Cruz SLF Landfill 4.5 mi · Santa Cruz, CA
- Ben Lomond Transfer Station Transfer Station 8.9 mi · Ben Lomond, CA
- Ben Lomond Solid Waste Disposal Site Landfill 9.1 mi · Ben Lomond, CA
- Watsonville Landfill Landfill 11.5 mi · Watsonville, CA
- Buena Vista Landfill Recycling 12.1 mi · Watsonville, CA
- Buena Vista Landfill and Recycle Center Landfill 12.1 mi · Watsonville, CA
- Watsonville Waste Recycling Dropoff Recycling 15.1 mi · Watsonville, CA
- WM - Guadalupe Rubbish Disposal Facility Recycling 18.2 mi · San Jose, CA
- The Dump - Guadalupe Rubbish Disposal Recycling 18.4 mi · San Jose, CA
Nearest landfill: City of Santa Cruz SLF, Santa Cruz — 4.5 mi
Area served
Serves Santa Cruz, Capitola, Mount Hermon, Scotts Valley, Soquel, Felton, Aptos, Ben Lomond, Brookdale, Los Gatos, Freedom, Davenport.
County context
One of 5 recycling centers in Santa Cruz County, CA.
ZIP 95060 population 46,024.
California solid-waste agency: CalRecycle