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Landfill
Santa Maria Regional Landfill
Santa Maria Regional Landfill, 2065 E. Main Street, Santa Maria, 93454, California
Santa Maria Regional Landfill on E. Main is where residential loads and commercial haulers bring trash that gets buried rather than recycled. The place is large and industrial - lots of dirt cells, heavy equipment, and open space. It serves both pickup trucks and larger roll-off trucks on a regular basis.
Expect to stop at a scale house or entrance booth so your vehicle can be weighed; tipping fees are charged by weight, so weighing is part of the process. The site looks rough and functional: gravel roads, piles of cover soil, compactors and bulldozers moving around. Weekends and seasonal cleanups can back up traffic, and commercial trucks will be sharing the lanes with residential drop-offs. Bring patience for dust and noise - this is a working landfill, not a tidy transfer station.
Facility Information
Before You Go
- Cover and tie down loads before leaving home to avoid losing debris on the road and to make unloading easier.
- Sort materials at the curb if possible and separate obvious organics and recyclables; California facilities often require diversion and being pre-sorted speeds things up.
- If bringing a commercial load, have any necessary paperwork ready and plan for extra time on weekends or during spring cleanup periods when lines get long.
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