ACI Alameda Multi-Family Move-In-Out Guide
Reduce Waste During Your Move
Please help our community reduce waste, conserve resources, and comply with State and local laws.
It’s easy to be green when moving.
Whether packing it up or settling in, make your move as environmentally friendly as possible.
- Use what you already have as packing material. Use your clothing, sheets, and towels to protect fragile or delicate items.
- Go online. Check Craigslist, Freecycle, Facebook Marketplace, etc., to find or offer reusable moving supplies.
- Pass it on. Moving companies like U-Haul may offer or accept gently-used boxes for reuse at no charge.
- Find a green moving company. Search for eco-minded movers who use reusable and recyclable moving supplies.
- Rent reusable. To avoid excess moving waste, find a reusable packaging rental company such as Zippgo or Rentacrate.
Have extra, large, or bulky items you don’t need or want?
Consider donating clean, working, usable items to a favorite local church, charity, or consignment shop, or use one of these resources:
Use the ACI On-Call Clean Up Program
- All multi-family residential customers may schedule an annual on-call clean up to discard overflow waste, recyclable materials, and bulky and reusable items.
- This service is available at not charge once per 12-month period.
- Tenants must coordinate with their complex owner or manager a suitable curbside location* accessible to ACI collection vehicles before scheduling an on-call clean up.
- Click here for more information.
An On-Call Clean up Collection Includes:
- collection of up to three cubic yards of reusable materials, recyclable materials, yard trimmings, and solid waste
- collection of up to three bulky items – one item may be electronic waste
*PLEASE NOTE: You must share the agreed-upon curbside collection location with ACI personnel BEFORE setting out materials for proper service.
REMEMBER – NO SHARPS OR HAZARDOUS WASTE IN THE BINS
It is illegal to dispose of hazardous waste such as batteries, fluorescent lightbulbs, paint, and needles in any ACI collection container. Please take hazardous materials to a Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) collection facility. There is a fast, free drop-off at four locations in Alameda County. Visit StopWaste.org/hhw or call 1-800-606-6606 for more information.
Whether moving in or moving out, your recyclables, organics, & garbage must “move” into the correct collection bin.
We have tools to help YOU with proper sorting.
You can stop by the ACI office to pick up the following items, or you can contact your complex manager or owner to arrange for their delivery.
THE HANDY KITCHEN PAIL makes collecting food scraps and food-soiled paper in your home easy. When full, empty the pail into your green organics cart or bin.
You can use SPECIAL TOTE BAGS to transport recyclables from your home to the blue recyclables bin at your complex. Please remember to keep your recyclables loose. Do not bag them. Recyclable items in bags are separated and disposed of as garbage at our sorting facility.
California State Law (SB1383) will help keep compostable materials out or landfills.
All Alameda residents and businesses must have adequate organic waste collection services in place to recycle organic materials such as food scraps, food-soiled paper, and yard trimmings.
Implementation of this local law is through a partnership between the City of Alameda, ACI, StopWaste, and Alameda County Environmental Health Departments.
For more information, visit StopWaste.org/Rules.
To view this information in another language, please visit StopWaste.org/rules-languages.
Protect Our Sorting Staff
Your recyclables are sorted by people.
Thank you for properly sorting your waste. Make sure needles, masks, gloves, wipes, tissues, garbage, organics, and anything with bodily fluids stay out of the recycling. Click here for a comprehensive list of what goes where and a video that shows what happens to your recyclables after they are collected.
Click here for a downloadable/printable PDF of this information in English.
To see this information in another language, click the translate button at the top of the page.