Waste Management - Guadalupe Rubbish Disposal Facility

Small-scale disposal site used by San Jose residents and landscapers for drop-off of household and garden refuse. Located on Guadalupe Mines Road, it's the local spot people use when curbside pickup won't do. Expect the kind of place that looks more like working infrastructure than a tidy recycling center.

There is typically an entrance booth and a vehicle scale, so plan on stopping to be weighed. Pull up slowly-larger trucks and trailers are common, and maneuvering space is limited in the unloading area. Piles of mixed material, roll-off containers, and compactors are visible from the drive lane; routes to the different drop-off points are usually marked on-site. Lines form on weekends and during seasonal cleanups, so traffic can back up at the gate.