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Doing our Part to Confront Illegal Dumping in Alameda County

The Best Junk Removal Service for Richmond – Alameda Helps Prevent Illegal Dumping

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Illegal dumping is certainly an unsightly and unsanitary problem that affects communities around the state of California. There is nothing worse than finding an abandoned refrigerator in a parking lot or dozens of black garbage bags “decorating” the end of a neighborhood cul-de-sac. The dumping of construction and demolition (C & D) debris is another serious issue affecting rural areas throughout Alameda County. Below, we explore some of the recent problems associated with illegal dumping in Alameda County and then explain why Junk King of Alameda is the best option for dealing with your junk in a legal and environmentally friendly manner.

 

Statistics on Illegal Dumping

 

Illegal dumps are obviously an ugly and disagreeable aspect of both urban, suburban, and rural landscapes.  Besides being an obvious eyesore, illegal dumps can also negatively impact both human and environmental health. Illegal dumping can pollute the local air quality while also seeping into the soil and groundwater sources. In urban areas especially, illegal dumps can be a vector for disease by providing a breeding ground for mice, rats, and other undesirable animals. Furthermore, in places where illegal dumping occurs, property and land values tend to be negatively affected. A thriving neighborhood may find that property values decrease and real estate interest wanes due to illegal dumping in the region. For business owners, illegal dumps can also drive away customers and discourage economic development in a region.

 

Unfortunately, littering and larger scale illegal dumping continue to be a prevalent problem across the United States. According to 2016 data, at least 3 percent of all plastic waste generated in the United States was either littered or illegally dumped. Due to recent difficulties in recycling plastics, this percentage may only increase in coming years.

 

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An Overview of Illegal Dumping in Alameda County

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In the state of California, illegal dumping is also a growing problem. The city government of Oakland, CA, for example, states that illegal dumping in Oakland has increased 100 percent over the last five years, and in 2016 alone the Oakland Public Works crews cleaned up approximately 29,000 piles of illegal dumps!

 

In Richmond, California, over 4,100 tons of solid waste was dumped around the city in 2020. This waste, especially hazardous material such batteries, oil, paint, and antifreeze, electronic waste, and other potentially toxic substances cost taxpayers in the city thousands of dollars each year. According to the Richmond city government:

“If illegal dumping problems are not reported the problem often grows. Once a pile begins, it often encourages other people to pile on additional waste. The City of Richmond will fine any persons caught dumping illegally or littering can be fined up to $1,000.”

 

Despite local laws, ordinances, and the threat of fines, illegal dumping across Alameda County continues to grow, especially in some of the rural areas around the county. A recent Sierra Club report finds that:

“in a rural areas of Alameda County like Palomares Canyon (south of Castro Valley), residents have seen as many as 40 truckloads of construction debris or dirt dumped each day. There are 28 dumping sites known to the County. Residents have been impacted by noise, damage to the roads from the heavy trucks, and dust that coats homes. The dirt comes from construction sites, and its cleanliness is not certified.”

What Can You do to Stop Illegal Dumping in Richmond and the Rest of Alameda County?

 

To help stop the growth of illegal dumps across Alameda County, reporting illegal dumping practices is an easy and anonymous strategy. The city of Richmond offers a free smart phone app that you can find out how to download here. Individuals, homeowners, and business owners across the city can also call the Illegal Dumping Hot Line, (510) 965-4905, to report illegally dumped material in and around Richmond.

 

Another way to avoid illegal dumping is to ensure that you only hire the most reputable junk removal companies in the region for all of your trash and waste removal needs. Junk King of Alameda is the region´s top-rated junk removal company and can help you with almost all of your junk removal needs. We offer both residential and commercial junk removal services, and can help you deal with large and bulky items such as old refrigerators, couches, hot tubs, beds, and other pieces of furniture. We can help our clients deal with their construction and demolition debris, yard waste, and other similar types of waste in an environmentally friendly manner. As long as your junk is not classified as toxic waste, we can help you haul it away.

 

We are proud to be the leading junk removal company in Alameda County. Unlike other waste management companies that simply take the junk they pick up directly to the local landfill, we make every possible effort to help our clients reduce their waste footprint through keeping their junk out of the dump (both illegal and legal).

 

We are proud to say that at least 60 percent of the junk items that we collect at each job site are either recycled, reused, donated, or repurposed, rather than simply being dumped into landfills. We have developed a huge network of relationships with recycling facilities, thrift stores, donation centers and other businesses that specialize in finding ways to reuse or repurpose your junk items. When you hire Junk King of Alameda County, not only are you helping to stop the problem of illegal dumps, but you are also helping to reduce the pressure on the authorized dumps around our community.

 

We offer both residential and commercial junk pickup services to individuals and businesses in the Alameda area, including Alameda, Albany, Berkeley, Castro Valley, El Cerrito, El Sobrante, Emeryville, Fremont, Hayward, Hercules, Newark, Oakland, Pinole, Richmond, San Leandro, San Lorenzo, San Pablo, and Sunol.

 

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How to Contact Junk King of Alameda County?

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We make every effort to guarantee that all of our customers enjoy the benefits that come with fair and transparent pricing. We understand the frustration that comes when an agreed-upon price is suddenly raised by 50 percent at the last minute, and we want to ensure that never happens when you work with Junk King of Alameda. To that end, we offer all of our customers four convenient ways to get a free estimate on any size junk removal service you many need.

 

For larger jobs, we offer an on-site pricing, which will allow us to give you an accurate and exact price estimate for the job.  You can also call us at 1-888-888-JUNK to live chat with our highly trained customer service representatives. For smaller junk removal services, you can take a photo of the items you need removed and text us at 737-888-5865. We will text you back an estimate. Lastly, for a pricing estimate online, simply click the “Pricing” tab on our website, scroll to pricing estimator, enter your zip code, and choose estimate “By List Item” or “By Truckload.”

 

If you’re ready to reclaim your space and make a positive impact on the environment, you can schedule your next junk removal appointment with Junk King of Alameda County by calling 1-888-888-JUNK (5865) or booking online.

 

 

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Now’s the Perfect Time for Metal Recycling!

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Junk King is proud to be North America’s top-rated junk removal company and ‘greenest’ junk removal company, as well. Part of being the most environmentally responsible junk removal company is facilitating a variety of recycling services, including metal recycling

 

At Junk King, we offer scrap metal recycling, which is helpful to remember for your next remodeling. Scrap metal recycling can include metals like iron, copper, steel, and aluminum. A lot of plumbing fixtures and construction debris contains these metals. 

 

Recycling at Junk King Alameda goes much further than that, however. Junk King Alameda can haul away and help you recycle the metal found in furniture, yard waste, home cleanouts, and household appliances. We work with local metal recyclers as well as charities and non-profits so that more items can be recycled, repurposed, or reused. 

 

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Critical Facts About Metal Recycling 

 

Recycling scrap metal has several different yet interrelated benefits. Metal recycling includes both ferrous metals (e.g., cast iron, wrought iron, carbon steel, and alloy steel) and non-ferrous metals (e.g., aluminum, copper, zinc, and tin). The appliances, pots and pans, and furniture around your home is likely made of at least some of these metals. 

 

Steel is actually the most recycled metal in the United States. It is easy to melt down and create new products. You might also be surprised to hear that, while not the most recycled metal, aluminum is one of the most efficient to recycle. It is 20 times more efficient to recycle aluminum than make it in the first place as recycling aluminum uses only 5 percent of the energy. 

 

Recycling just one aluminum can save the energy equivalent of about a days worth of lighting (one lightbulb) or three hours of running a computer. Even though some say that over 100,000 aluminum cans are recycled every minute in the United States, only about 35 percent of aluminum-containing containers, packages, and cans are actually recycled in the United States. 

 

Left to its own devices, aluminum can take a staggering 500 years to decompose in a landfill. That’s unfortunate because aluminum, like steel, is an easy metal to recycle. Aluminum can be turned around into other aluminum products in as little as two months. That means the can you drank from yesterday could be recycled today and turned into a new product on the shelf in a few months! 

 

There are some signs that things are turning around when it comes to recycling, but there’s still more that can be done. Only about 30 percent of recyclable metal is getting recycled. That’s the part that we can improve on. The good news is that approximately 40 percent of the steel production globally right now is being done with recycled steel. Even year about a half-billion tons of metal gets recycled, so that’s definitely a reason to cheer! 

 

Junk King can goose that number up even more. Since Junk King is a full-service junk removal company, you can have virtually any kind of residential junk and commercial junk hauled away and safely recycled. The more items that you have containing recyclable metal the better because keeping these metals out of landfills cuts down on groundwater and soil pollution and has other benefits. 

 

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Why Recycling Metals is Essential 

 

Although steel is the most recycled metal today, metals like aluminum, copper, brass, silver, and gold are following on its heels. A lot of electronics actually use silver and gold, and the more that these precious metals are recycled, the less mining that has to be done. Many of your household appliances contain copper and brass, and these are easily recyclable, too. 

 

Environmentally, recycling has many benefits, over and above keeping these metals out of landfills and reducing the need for new mining. Conserving more virgin materials does, indeed, mean less mining, but the more that metals can be recycled the less energy needs to be expended manufacturing new products. In other words, recycling reduces the number of harmful materials sent into the atmosphere and reduces the manufacturing costs that businesses and consumers would otherwise incur. 

 

Ferrous Metals 

 

Ferrous comes from the Latin for iron. Today, ferrous metals are still used to refer to iron, as well as steel. Iron is said to be the second-most common metal in the Earth’s crust, and iron is what contributes to the Earth’s magnetic field itself. The magnetism part is relevant because the scrap metal yards will use huge magnets to get these metals from the excavator to a truck for further processing. 

 

Ferrous metals eligible for metal recycling mainly come from old appliances and furniture in the United States. Appliances, furniture, and tires contributed to almost a third of recycling ferrous metals in 2018, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. This amounted to nearly 5 million tons of recycled ferrous metals that year from these durable goods alone, which equates to a lot of environmental good. 

 

Non-ferrous Metals 

 

Non-ferrous metals are said not to get chemically degraded during the recycling process, which means they can be recycled repeatedly. Aluminum, tin, copper, nickel, and zinc are some of the most common non-ferrous metals that regularly get recycled. You might also be surprised to hear that precious metals like gold and silver are also considered non-ferrous metals, and these are likely in your electronic waste

 

Non-ferrous metals have a way of punching above their weight in that they comprise about 10 percent of the total metal recycling in the United States yet about half (50 percent) of the value garnered from metal recycling. The non-ferrous scrap metal industry in the United States exports about $10 billion worth of material annually to an estimated 100 countries around the world! 

 

Junk King is Proud to Lead on Metal Recycling 

 

Ready to get started? Contact Junk King by booking an appointment online or calling 1-888-888-5865. Junk King continues to offer free, on-site estimates and a 100% quality guarantee. 

 

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At Junk King, we work with local metal recyclers to ensure your products get recycled properly. The goal is to recycle 60% or more of every junk haul. The higher percentage of metal that can be recycled, the better for the environment.

 

 

Help Mayor Quan Make Oakland Sustainable through Recycling

There’s a new mayor in Oakland. Mayor Jean Quan recently celebrated her first 100 days in office by inviting local residents to go on a walking tour of some of the historic sites that gives Oakland its charm. With a new mayor comes a new administration and the opportunity to bring an energized approach to solving some of the challenges that face the city. One of the goals is to make Oakland a Sustainable City. As described by the official website, this would mean making Oakland into “a place where we can meet our current needs while ensuring that future generations can live rewarding and healthy lives.” That is certainly a noble goal. The question then becomes how to get there?
This plan actually got started back in 2006 when the Oakland City Council adopted a “Zero Waste Goal”  to be achieved by the year 2020. This isn’t just about recycling, but also about taking into consideration the vast amount of resources and waste that flows through Oakland with the target to eliminate that waste all together. This doesn’t mean that there won’t be garbage. It just means finding a way to recycle, repurpose and reuse that waste in a more productive manner.
Consider the statistics. Since 2000 the amount of citywide recycling is up 33% and the amount of garbage that gets dumped into a landfill is down by a whopping 27%. How does that breakdown? This means that Oakland residents have recycled 700,000 tons of cans, bottles, magazines, junk mail, office paper, cardboard, yard trimmings and food scraps. All of that recycled material was turned around to make new cans, bottles and paper products. This saves trees, water and energy not to mention reducing the amount of harmful greenhouse gas emissions that are released into the air.
One of the campaigns used by Oakland residents is the 4 R’s: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Rot. Now those first three are easy to understand. The more we can reduce the better off we’ll all be. Take for instance junk mail. Did you know there is a way to stop that from coming into your home? All you need to do is contact that folks who send it to you tell them to stop. They’re required by law to do that. Less junk mail means less waste in that one category. With recycling we all know about sorting our materials and placing them in the weekly recycle pickup bins. That’s where reuse also comes into play when you start thinking about how to extend the life of products or buildings and make better use of energy resources. As for rot, this is where nature can take over. Any kind of yard trimmings, food scraps or other biodegradable material can be gathered together and picked up in a special container. This is then collected into a massive mound that breaks down and turns into amazing fertilizer that can be used to grow organic foods.
Of course this plan will only work if everyone gets involved. Outside of the recycling services provided by the city, Junk King Alameda is always on call to help Oakland residents you remove larger recyclable items like appliances, e-waster or furniture. It can all be turned around! Simply call 1-888-888-JUNK.
Junk King Alameda
15010 Wicks Blvd, Unit B
San Leandro, CA 94577
Hours: M-F: 8A-4P, Sa: 9A-4P, Su: 9A-4P

Providing junk removal services to the Alameda area, including:

Alameda
Albany
Berkeley
Castro Valley
El Cerrito
El Sobrante
Emeryville
Fremont
Hayward
Hercules
Newark
Oakland
Pinole
Richmond
San Leandro
San Lorenzo
San Pablo
Sunol
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