Republic Services of Caldwell, ID
Republic Services provides exclusive recycling and waste collection services for residential and commercial accounts for the City of Caldwell. We offer one-stop shopping for all of the city's waste removal needs. Although we specialize in recycling and solid waste collection, our services go far beyond just emptying the trash bins.
Caldwell, ID customer service
Monday – Friday, 7:00 am – 5:00 pm
3015 E Comstock Ave
Nampa, ID 83687
Billing questions
208-455-3000 ext. 1
Holiday schedule
We observe the following holidays:
New Year’s Day
Memorial Day
Fourth of July
Labor Day
Thanksgiving Day
Christmas Day
- If your pickup day falls on or after the holiday, it will be delayed by one day.
- Holidays falling on the weekend will not delay collection.
Regional facilities
Call the numbers below for current rates, and for a list of acceptable/unacceptable materials.
Landfills
Canyon County Landfill
15500 Missouri Avenue
Nampa, Idaho 83686
Phone: 208-466-7288
Recycle centers
Recycling centers vary in terms of the types of materials they take. For more information about what materials are accepted at specific centers, please call in advance.
TMV Inc.
202 Albany Street
Caldwell, ID 83605
Phone: 208-459-6246
Monday - Friday 8 am to 5 pm
Saturday 8 am to noon
United Metals
311 Albany
Caldwell, ID 83605
Phone: 208-459-1617
Monday - Friday 8 am to 5 pm
Saturday 8 am to noon
Western Recycling
2520 Sundance Road
Nampa, ID 83651
Phone: 208-466-9504
Monday - Friday 8 am to 5 pm
Saturday 9 am to 2 pm
How can we help?
Committed to serve
In April 2020, Republic Services announced our more than $50 million initiative "Committed to Serve" as a way to honor our frontline employees and support our local small business customers to help keep our communities thriving.
Additional resources
Choose a topic below for additional recycling & trash service details.
Cart to Career
The City of Caldwell and Republic Services are teaming up to help Caldwell Schools. Recycle at home and you can help, too!
Signing up for Caldwell's no-sort curbside recycling program will help our schools and the environment! Residents subscribing to the service must have a trash account with the City of Caldwell. A portion of the subscription cost for the recycling service will be given to the Caldwell School District (estimated potential of $16K a month).
Participating customers will be given a 95-gallon blue cart that will be emptied the same day as their trash, every other week. Newspapers, magazines, tin cans, aluminum cans, cardboard, plastic, and mixed-waste paper can be mixed together in the cart. Republic Services will be delivering recycling instructions on a collection calendar with each cart.
Trucks powered by clean-burning compressed natural gas (CNG) will be servicing the blue carts.
The City of Caldwell and Republic Services are committed to helping the community and the environment.
If you would like more information on how to subscribe to the program, please contact the City of Caldwell at 208-455-3000 ext. 1 to add recycling service or Republic Services at 208-345-1265 with questions.
Caldwell Recycling Guidelines
Participating customers will be given a 95-gallon blue cart that will be emptied the same day as their trash, every other week. Newspapers, magazines, tin cans, aluminum cans, cardboard, plastic, and mixed-waste paper can be mixed together in the cart. Republic Services will be delivering recycling instructions on a collection calendar with each cart.
If you would like more information on how to subscribe to the program, contact Republic Services at 208-466-3302 or csidaho@republicservices.com.
Recyclable Materials (collected loose in the cart – no bags):
Newspapers: including inserts, magazines, and catalogs.
Aluminum and Steel (Tin): cans (rinse empty cans - labels are okay - aerosol cans must be empty - pesticide cans are prohibited), pie tins (rinsed), wire hangers (stripped of foam and paper).
Mixed Paper: junk mail, white or pastel ledger, cereal and frozen food boxes, paper bags, envelopes, fax paper, computer paper, brochures, greeting cards, and wrapping paper without foil, construction paper.
Plastics: milk jugs, pop/soda bottles, fruit juice bottles and jugs, detergent jugs. No plastic bags, motor oil jugs, pesticide containers, or rigid plastics marked #3 through #7.
Corrugated cardboard: break boxes down to fit in the recycling cart.
What items are NOT accepted?
- Paper plates & cups
- Plastic bags and rigid plastics marked #3 through #7
- Styrofoam/Packaging
- Tissues
- Paper towels
- Milk or juice cartons
- Napkins
- Food-contaminated containers
- Foil-lined items like cookie and chip bags
- Cardboard milk and juice cartons
- Grass clippings
- Glass
Used Motor Oil
Republic Services will collect up to 2 gallons of used motor oil per household per week. Do not mix with other fluids, such as brake or transmission fluid, or gasoline. Use transparent, 1-gallon plastic jugs. Set containers next to the trash bin. Label container "USED MOTOR OIL."
Bulk Wastes and Appliances
Republic Services collects refrigerators for recycling and other appliances upon customer request. An additional collection fee applies. Appliances must be outside and visible to the driver. Call Republic Services at 208-345-1265 to arrange for a special pick-up.
Recycling for Business
Businesses that do not have a lot of recyclable materials can also order a cart. Similar to the residential recycling program, Republic Services provides containers. Cardboard needs to be flattened and placed next to the blue cart. If a blue cart does not meet your business recycling needs, check out more options in our business recycling guidelines.
Residential Trash Guidelines
Republic Services strives to provide seamless trash collection services to Caldwell residents. Garbage is collected once a week with no limit on the number of carts, cans or bags you may set out.
Rates and Special Services
Residential trash service is mandatory in the City of Caldwell. All households are required to sign up in person for trash collection, along with water and sewer service, at the Water Department (305 W. Chicago). City staff are available to set up trash, water, and sewer accounts from 8 am to 5 pm Monday through Friday. Bring photo identification.
All Caldwell residents pay a flat monthly fee for trash collection. Residents may rent a 95-gallon wheeled trash cart from Republic Services for an additional fee. Carry out service is also available for an additional fee. The City bills residents on a bi-monthly schedule.
Trash Container Guidelines
- All residents will receive a 95-gallon trash cart for automated pick-up.
- Additional trash carts are available for an extra monthly fee.
- Use the right container: fill the cart first, and then place additional trash in extra trash cans (35 gal. or smaller, 60 lbs. or less).
- Securely closed heavy-duty trash bags (1.5 ml or thicker), may be used to contain overflow trash.
- Acceptable trash bags must weigh 30 lbs. or less. Do not overload containers or pack so tightly that contents are difficult to remove.
- Weight limits: 95-gallon carts – 200 lbs; Trash cans – 60 lbs, max 35 gallons.
Collection Requirements
- Trash and recycling must be set out by 7:00 am.
- All containers must be removed from the curbside within 24 hours.
- No hazardous materials, fluorescent light tubes, paint, or vehicle batteries are collected curbside.
- Make sure drivers have safe and convenient access to containers.
- Do not set trash containers close to obstructions such as mailboxes, fire hydrants, parked cars, or utility poles.
- Do not block sidewalks with cans or bags.
- Do not overload containers or pack them so tightly that trash is difficult to remove.
- Wheeled carts should be placed at the curb line with lid hinges pointing away from the street.
- Trees and branches must be cut to less than 4' in length, bundled, and placed next to your garbage can on your regular collection day.
- No sod, dirt, or rocks, please.
Need a gray trash cart?
Request a gray cart
Spring Clean-up! Caldwell
All residents have unlimited trash service during the 3rd full week in April.
Each year the City of Caldwell and Republic Services partner to haul extra trash, recyclables, and bulk items out of the city. Please fill your trash cart first before setting additional trash out in trash cans or large paper leaf bags. Tied bundles of tree limbs, carpet, vinyl, etc. measuring 4' or smaller and weighing 60 lbs. or less will also be collected.
Large or bulk (Freon-free) items are picked up at no charge during the week of Spring Clean-Up.
To schedule a collection, call Republic Services at 208-345-1265.
Kid's corner
Trash day maze
Help the truck driver navigate his route to pick up the neighborhood’s trash and recycling. Download
Electronics word search
Our electronics are tangled. Can you help find which electronics are recyclable? Download
Outdoors bingo
Take a walk around your neighborhood with this Bingo sheet. Find four in a row! Download
Take a virtual field trip
Take your students on a virtual field trip of how a recycling center and a modern landfill works. These videos are designed to inform specific lessons in 3rd-5th grade, 6th-8th grade, and 9th-12th grade, but can also be used outside of those lessons to take your students on a journey through the process!
Recycling center video tour
3rd - 5th grade video is featured below
FAQs
Billing & Accounts
Collection Guidelines & Reporting an Issue
This information is also found on your Caldwell Service Guide.
Trash Guidelines
- Trash and recycling must be set out by 7 am with the lids closed.
- Place carts 3ft. from other carts and objects (fire hydrants, mailboxes, cars, utility poles) with the handle towards the house.
- Make sure carts are in a safe and accessible location with 14’ of overhead clearance.
- Do not block sidewalks.
- All containers must be removed from the curbside within 24 hours.
- Bag trash to prevent blowing during service.
- All residents will receive a 95-gallon trash cart for automated pick-up. Additional trash carts are available for an extra monthly fee.
- Use the right container: fill the cart first, and then place additional trash in extra trash cans (35-gallon or smaller, 60 lbs. or less).
- Securely closed heavy-duty trash bags (1.5 ml or thicker), may be used to contain overflow trash.
- Acceptable trash bags must weigh 30 lbs. or less.
- Do not overload containers or pack so tightly that contents are difficult to remove.
- Weight limits: 95-gallon carts – 200 lbs; Trash cans – 60 lbs, max 35-gallons.
- Place used motor oil in clear 1 gallon jugs visible to the driver on trash day. Up to 2 gallons per week will be accepted.
- No tires, liquids, hazardous waste, or vehicle batteries allowed in the trash cart. See the Special & Household Hazardous Waste FAQs for more information.
Recycling Guidelines
- Recycling is optional in Caldwell for a small monthly fee added to your Caldwell City utility bill.
- Recycling pick-up occurs on your trash day, every other week. Place recycle cart curbside by 7 am.
- For collection, dates visit the calendar at the top of this page.
- Participating customers will receive a 95-gallon no sort recycling cart. Additional 95-gallon recycling carts are available for an extra monthly fee.
- All-in-One/Single-stream Recycling: recyclable items may be mixed in a cart (refer to the "What is and is NOT Recyclable" FAQ below).
- No glass, Polystyrene (Styrofoam®), or yard waste in the recycling cart.
- Leave recycling loose in the cart or use paper bags to contain materials.
- No plastic bags.
- Flatten or cut down boxes to fit in the cart. The lid must be able to close.
Please call Republic Services Customer Service at 208-345-1265.
Please call Republic Services Customer Service at 208-345-1265 or
New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day
During holiday weeks, if your normal collection day falls on or after the holiday, your collection will be delayed by one day. Holidays falling on the weekend will not delay collection.
Recycling Questions
ALWAYS place these items in your recycle cart:
PAPER AND CARDBOARD
- Cardboard boxes (broken down to fit in cart)
- Frozen food & cereal boxes (no liners)
- Construction paper
- Envelopes (cellophane window ok)
- Office waste paper (any color)
- Magazines & catalogs
- Computer & fax paper
- Phone books
- Newspapers
- Paper bags
- Junk mail
PLASTICS
- Bottles and Jugs. Must be marked with #1 or #2 recycle symbol.
- No lightweight water bottles or clamshell containers
- No plastic bags or other soft plastics
CANS
- Aluminum, steel, tin, and aerosol cans (must be empty and labels are okay).
Remember: Empty, Clean, and Dry before placing in recycle cart.
NEVER place these items in your recycle cart:
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Chip and candy wrappers
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Food contaminated paper (pizza boxes, plates, coffee cups)
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Food waste
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Glass
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Hazardous waste containers
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Lightweight water bottles
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Milk and juice paper cartons
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Polystyrene (Styrofoam®)
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Soft or flimsy plastics
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Tissues, napkins, and paper towels
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Wax coated cardboard
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Yard waste
Non-recyclables contaminate recycling loads, and need to be removed during the sorting process. Some items may also contaminate clean recyclable items (ex. pasta sauce jar with sauce still in it, can soak into clean office paper which is then no longer recyclable either).
If our drivers notice a lot of contamination in your recycle cart or bin, we may not be able to service it as recycling and may tag it to have it serviced as trash (in which case you may be charged).
Cut tree limbs, hedge trimmings, or other wood waste into sections less than 4 feet. Tie bundles 18 inches or less in diameter and set out in compact piles weighing 60 lbs. or less.
Please place trees with other yard waste on your scheduled service day. Remove all tinsel and garland before you place the Christmas/Holiday tree on the curb. Cut tree in half.
Flocked trees must be cut and placed in the trash.
Business & Industrial Services
Republic Services offers customizable commercial recycling programs to businesses, non-profit organizations, churches, schools, and multi-family complexes (apartments, condominiums) in all the municipalities we serve. Republic Services will meet with interested commercial businesses and organizations to perform a free waste consultation and to develop a specific recycling program. Here are just a few of the things that we will help you consider and implement:
- Space: We work with you to identify a practical location where recyclables can be collected.
- Access: We help you find the appropriate place outside the building where Republic Services collection trucks can easily pick up the bins, carts, or dumpsters.
- Materials: We will assess the types of materials and the quantities that you would like to recycle.
- Commitment: We help educate and engage company management, facility staff, and employees to create a successful recycling program.
Service Options:
Republic Services offers the following collection options to meet your organization's specific recycling needs.
Wheeled Carts (95 gallons)
Business recycling is simple! Similar to residential recycling, cardboard, mixed paper, newspaper and magazines, tin cans, aluminum cans, and rigid plastics labeled #1 or #2 can all be recycled in a single recycling cart. Wheeled carts are a great option for businesses that do not generate a lot of waste. Businesses can have up to five carts, depending on their recycling needs. Recycling carts are collected once a week.
Green Dumpsters (3 - 8 cubic yards)
These containers are best suited for larger companies who want to recycle mixed paper, corrugated cardboard, aluminum, tin, and plastic.
Roll-Off Boxes (20, 30, or 40 cubic yards)
These containers are best suited for construction and demolition sites. Since about one-third of the waste destined for landfills comes from construction and demolition debris, cities are increasingly looking to contractors to take a pro-active role in diverting waste from landfills. Republic Services can tailor a job-site recycling program to fit your needs. For the purpose of recycling, Republic Services requires single commodities be assigned to specific containers. Also since Republic Services records all transactions involving a project, paperwork and compliance are effortless on the part of either the developer or the contractor. Learn more about how Republic Services can help your building project become LEED compliant.
Items accepted:
- Newspapers, magazines, and catalogs.
- Aluminum and steel (tin) cans: Empty, Clean, and Dry (labels okay).
- Mixed Paper: white or pastel paper (No neon-colored paper), paperboard (i.e. dry and frozen food boxes) with liners removed, phone books, envelopes, computer paper, paper bags.
- Plastics: #1 and #2 rigid plastics; Discard caps from bottles; No filmy plastic, grocery bags, vinyl, or Styrofoam.
- Corrugated cardboard: Flatten and cut boxes to 4' x 4' or smaller segments.
Items NOT accepted:
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Paper plates & cups
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Styrofoam/Packaging
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Tissues
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Paper towels
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Napkins
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Food-contaminated containers as well as milk or juice cartons
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Pizza boxes and foil-lined items like cookie and chip bags
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Plastic Bags - e.g. dry cleaning, grocery & carrot bags
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Paint & other cans with caution words on labels
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Glass
To discuss your industrial waste disposal needs, please call Republic Services Customer Service at 208-466-3302 or
The following materials can be recycled or diverted in Idaho:
- Brick
- Cardboard
- Concrete (without metal)
- Metal
- Paper
- Plastic
- Sheetrock
- Super sacks
- Trash
- Wood
- Wood pallets
Other materials on a case-by-case basis.
Special & Household Hazardous Waste
Residents in Canyon County may drop off Household Hazardous Waste during designated collection days.
Hazardous materials include (but are not limited to): fluorescent tubes, CFL bulbs, paint, stain, varnish, computer monitors, televisions, vehicle batteries, gasoline, oil, pesticides, and herbicides.
For details on the HHW collection locations, please call (208) 466-7288.
Collections will take place for one day in March, June, September, and December.
LEED Certification
In the United States and in a number of other countries around the world, LEED certification is the recognized standard for measuring building sustainability. Achieving LEED certification is the best way for you to demonstrate that your building project is truly "green."
The LEED green building rating system - developed and administered by the
LEED certification, which includes a rigorous third-party commissioning process, offers compelling proof to you, your clients, your peers, and the public at large that you've achieved your environmental goals and your building is performing as designed. Getting certified allows you to take advantage of a growing number of state and local government incentives, and can help boost press interest in your project.
Talk to Your Sub-Contractors - Let them know this is a LEED Project
As obvious as this sounds, construction workers on the ground often do not know what their managers know - that this is a LEED project! Talk to them. Share your goals about LEED certification. Is your target to recycle 50% to 90%? Tell them what you will be recycling and where the recycling containers will be located.
Label Your Containers
Another obvious point, but necessary. Create BIG signs for all of your recycling containers: WOOD, PAPER & CARDBOARD, SHEETROCK, etc. Draw pictures or laminate downloaded clip art and attach the graphics on the containers under the label (i.e. a picture of a woodpile or a picture of a plastic water bottle). This eliminates any language barrier confusion and is a quick reminder as workers approach the trash and recycling areas.
Strategically Locate Your Trash & Recycling Containers
Make recycling convenient, make trash tough. By placing recycling containers closest to the worksite and trash dumpsters next to the supervisor's trailer or apart from the work site you create an incentive to recycle and a deterrent from trashing everything. This strategy allows supervisors to see what is being thrown away and there is a high degree of accountability when co-workers can watch each other fill the recycling bins.
Use "On-Call" Trash and Recycling Service
Make sure you sign up for an "on-call" trash and recycling service. This allows you to have your dumpsters and recycling bins emptied only when they are full. If you call the Republic Services office by 5:00 p.m. your containers will be scheduled for next day service.
Take Pictures
Take digital pictures of your containers when they are full (before they are emptied). Upload and date the photos in a "LEED TRASH" or "LEED RECYCLING" folder. This will help you keep track of the number of yards you are throwing away or recycling at your project site.
Keep Your Trash and Recycling Bills
Keep all landfill tickets (indicating weight or volume) recycling center receipts (tons recycled) and trash/recycling invoices from the hauler or city. All serve as critical records and will help you reconcile the volume you post in your pictures with the volumes recorded on paper.
- Carpet and Pad: Western Recycling will recycle self-hauled carpet pad. Second Chance Building Materials Center 208-331-2707 will take carpet if it is re-usable.
- Wood waste: Republic Services Roll-Off Box (20, 30, or 40-yards). All wood products (including crates) can be mixed together but must be free of metals except for staples, nails, and screws. Wood waste is taken to the Canyon County Landfill where it is chipped and reused. Container delivery, container rent, and recycling haul charges apply. There is an additional fee of $12/yard to have the wood chipped (C & D is $14.50/ton).
- Cardboard/paper/plastic: These materials can be collected in a "single-stream" green commercial container (3, 6, or 8 cubic yards [insert link for "Dumpsters"]) or in a large roll-off box (20, 30, or 40 cubic yards). Roll-off boxes used for recycling have container delivery, rent, and hauling charges, but no additional disposal fee.
- Metal: Call United Metal or Pacific Recycling to set up a metal container.
- Electrical Conduit: If metal, recycle with metals.
- Piping: Place in the metals recycling container.
- Ceiling tiles: GTS Interior Supply, 1675 Commerce Ave, Boise, ID 83713, 208-343-4998, will take back Armstrong ceiling tiles.
- Roofing: Wooden shingles (shake) can be thrown in with the wood waste.
If you are reconstructing an existing building in the Treasure Valley, facilities such as the Habitat for Humanity store and Second Chance Building Materials will consider taking your reusable building materials.
These materials can NOT be recycled in Canyon County at this time.
- Insulation
- Asphalt and other types of shingles
- Sheetrock
Questions? Please call Republic Services Customer Service at 208-466-3302 or
Dumpsters
Republic Services offers a full range of service options and equipment to efficiently and economically meet your waste collection needs. Front-end loader containers work best for businesses that generate low-density waste materials that can be compacted, such as office waste and food products. We maintain an inventory of containers in a variety of sizes and offer flexible collection scheduling.
- Debris boxes, from 3 to 40 yards, are available for household remodeling, landscape projects, site clean-up, construction & demolition, and other projects.
- Rates for roll-offs vary depending upon box size and filled weight.
- Please call Republic Services Customer Service at 208-466-3302 or
submit a request online.
5 Benefits of Republic Services Dumpsters
Sanitary: all waste is kept in a single, closed receptacle until collected by automated trucks.
Reduces fire hazard: depositing waste in a closed, all-steel container helps diminish the likelihood of accidental fires.
Saves labor: workers dump wastes into a large, conveniently located container. No bags to fuss with, no mess to clean up.
Aids pest control: with waste enclosed in a covered steel container, insects, rodents, and other pests are less likely to be attracted.
Versatile: with containers available in a wide variety of sizes, Republic Services can meet your every waste disposal need.
Whether you are an insurance agent and need a single 3 cubic yard container dumped weekly to set next to your office, or a huge building project needing multiple 40 cubic yard debris boxes, Republic Services has the solution for you. We have been solving trash problems cost-effectively for over 40 years.
Container Specifications
The following are the container and enclosure specifications for our standard commercial containers. If your trash management needs are not met by the standard containers below, please call 208-345-1265 to speak with a customer service representative.
- Three Cubic Yard Container:7' x 4' x 4' footprint, 11' x 10' enclosure requirement
- Six Cubic Yard Container:7' x 6' x 5' footprint, 11' x 10' enclosure requirement
- Eight Cubic Yard Container:7' x 6' x 8' footprint, 11' x 10' enclosure requirement
Required Clearance
- 24' of overhead clearance to service containers underground
- 44' in front of containers with clear access
- 50' in front of compactors with clear access
