Eel River Resource Recovery

Go ahead and fill up your green waste cart with the following materials… grass, leaves, weeds, brush, pine needles, branches, unpainted wood (no nails), untreated wood (no nails), etc.Load up your 68 gallon cart, but make sure the lid can close. Please do not overfill or pack your cart so tightly that material won’t fall out.

Please do not add trash to your cart. We have to say “no, thank you” to the following materials: dirt, rocks, paper, plastic, Styrofoam, food, sheetrock, metal, painted wood, treated wood, or stained wood.Sorry, but green waste carts cannot handle tree limbs or wood scraps over three feet long or more than one foot wide. If you are not sure of what can and cannot be recycled via the green waste program, please call us at 725-5156.Thank you for keeping the green waste program growing. The materials we collect are transported to Scotia for use in their biomass power plant. Green waste reused in this fashion helps to create energy for Humboldt County.

Transportation and Salvage (scrap yard and vehicle recycling)

Today it is easer then ever to recycle your old car, truck, boat, RV, Camp trailer or Semi-Truck. Eel River Transportation & Salvage is a certified auto dismantler. When you are ready to recycle your unwanted car or truck, Eel River Transportation & Salvage makes it quick and painless. You can drop off your unwanted vehicle Monday through Friday 8:00am to 4:30pm. This is free of charge and we may pay depending on the market. All you need is a photo ID. That's it! We will do all the DMV paperwork for you. If you need your vehicle picked up, just stop by the office at 850 Riverwalk Drive in Fortuna to set up a pick up or give us a call for all the details at (707) 725-6530.We can also recycle larger vehicles such as farm and off road equipment.

Eel River Transportation & Salvage also recycles RVs, Motor Homes, Camp Trailers and Boats. Whatever it is, big or small, Eel River Transportation & Salvage can handle the job. There may be a charge for these items so call for details.For those big jobs, Eel River Transportation & Salvage has the largest portable scrap metal baler on the north coast. The baler is able to process thousands of pounds of scrap metal per day. We also have high side end dump trailers, an excavator and loader. With over 40 years of experience we know how to save you money by getting the job done faster.

Main Transfer Station and Recycling Center

Eel River Disposal is a locally owned solid waste and recycling company. We have been operating in Humboldt County for the past 25 years. We are a fully integrated collection company offering residential, commercial and industrial solid waste collection services. We also offer recycling collection & processing, green waste collection & processing, and operate solid waste transfer facilities and state certified 'buy-back' recycling centers.At Eel River Disposal you have many different recycling and disposal options.At our Recycling Center we buy back all of your CRV bottles and cans, we also buy Copper, Copper Wire, Brass, Scrap Aluminum, Radiators, Aluminum Wheels, Electric Motors, Stainless Steel, and Automotive Batteries.At our Drop off, you can also recycle your non-CRV Glass and Plastic Bottles, Tin Cans, Newspaper/Magazines, Cardboard, Junk mail/Office paper, Appliances. (There is a charge for Freon appliances).

We also provide low cost shredding for all your confidential material. You can bring it in or we have lockable containers to give you a safe, cost-effective way to store and protect your documents, and valuable information on site.There are many disposal options and price discounts for Wood waste, Green waste, Metal, Sheet rock and Construction Debris. Call the office for the pricing (707) 725-5156.At the main office you can pay your bill, sign up for weekly service and get information on all the services we provide at any of our locations. The Transfer Station and Recycling Center is open Monday through Friday 8:00am to 4:30pm and Saturday and Sunday 9:00am to 4:00pm.