Trash, recycling and compost collection will continue normally in the Bay Area amid the dramatic response to the coronavirus, according to a handful of local service providers.
On Monday, San Francisco, Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateo, Santa Clara and Marin counties and the city of Berkeley instituted shelter-in-place orders through at least April 7 in an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
Throughout the region, people are being told to stay home unless going to the grocery store or the doctor, for example, and many school districts had already announced widespread campus shutdowns.
This means that people will likely be doing more home cooking and engaging in hobbies or other home-bound activities that could result in the generation of larger volumes of household waste that needs to be hauled away.
Waste collection industry leaders, however, don’t expect significant disruptions to their services.
Anyone know if the Martinez tansfer station will remain open? Hoping to de-clutter my garage during the hiatus.
is it essential to dump it at the transfer station?
Declutter & place it in your driveway, then wait until the shelter-in-place has been lifted.
thank you to trash collectors and others out in the field who continue to work to keep essential functions going.
Is a cleaning business essential? I rely on my house cleaners and I was just told they will not be coming because of the shelter in place
I think housecleaners is a tough one. By having them come into your home, they could potentially be exposing you to something, or you could expose them to something. The grocery store, pharmacy, auto shop are different in that you are walking into their store/shop. But if you have limitations where you are unable to clean your own home, I could see it as being essential. We have regular house cleaners too and collectively we made the decision to have them not come for at least the next 3 weeks. If they won’t come, maybe you can find a temporary house cleaner that will come. Just know that anyone coming into your home can expose you to something, and that’s opposite of what’s being enforced at this time.