The District’s recycling program is critical because it helps conserve natural resources, reduce the quantity of waste materials sent to the landfill, and demonstrates the District’s willingness to protect the environment and offer an educational opportunity for students and staff to learn recycling for their normal daily lives.
The Palomar College comprehensive recycling program services the main campus and the Escondido Center. The District contracts out our waste disposal service with EDCO – Waste & Recycling Services. EDCO provides the District with 3-Yard and 40-Yard Recycling Dumpsters at no cost; they pickup our filled recycling bins also at no cost to the District and pay 70% of the current price for our recyclables.
Collection Schedule
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday |
| Shredding room A building | Shredding room A building | Shredding room A building | Shredding room A building |
| TSA trailer-cardboard | TSA trailer-cardboard | TSA trailer-cardboard | TSA trailer-cardboard |
| AA upstairs recycling bins | AA upstairs recycling bins | AA upstairs recycling bins | AA upstairs recycling bins |
| Library loading dock | Library loading dock | Library loading dock | Library loading dock |
| Recycling Requests | Recycling Requests | Recycling Requests | Recycling Requests |
| Comet Copy Recycling bins | Comet Copy Recycling bins | Comet Copy Recycling bins | Comet Copy Recycling bins |
| Shredding room A building | List Full bins for pickup | Mail Room Recycling | Child Care Center Recycling |
| Sorting Cardboard and Paper | Shredding room A building | Shredding room A building | Shredding room A building |
| Soccer Field Bottles Cans | Sorting Cardboard and Paper | Sorting Cardboard and Paper | Sorting Cardboard and Paper |
| SSC 41 (Vault) | SSC 41 (Vault) | Bottles and Cans -pickup | SSC 41 (Vault) |
There are no pick-ups scheduled for Fridays.
Requests for recycling pickup can be made online anytime by using the Recycling Request Form.