Helping Santa Fe rethink their waste
Recycle
Prohibited Materials
The Santa Fe Solid Waste Management Agency
Operates Caja del Rio Landfill and Buckman Road Recycling & Transfer Station (BuRRT). The Agency works with the City of Santa Fe and Santa Fe County to help Santa Fe rethink their waste and reduce the impact on our environment.

Have an item that you are unsure about?  Check the list below to see which materials are banned from Caja and BuRRT.  That means that these items should not go in any Santa Fe trash bin, period.
If your items is on this list, it is likely that it can reused or recycled.  If that isn’t the case, then it probably will need to go to a different landfill or facility that accepts special waste.

Caja del Rio Landfill does not accept:

Bulk & Non-Containerized Liquids,
Radioactive Waste,
Infectious Waste,
Any Material Regulated by TOSCA or RCRA, or
Special Wastes Including:
  • Treated Formerly Characteristic Hazardous Waste
  • Killing Plant Offal
  • Asbestos Waste
  • Ash
  • Infectious Waste
  • Industrial Solid Waste that Requires Special Handling
  • Chemical Spill Materials
  • Dry Chemicals which when wetted become hazardous
Recyclables Including:
  • Commercial Green Waste
  • Scrap Metal & Appliances
  • Scrap Tires
  • E-Waste

Buckman Road Recycling & Transfer Station does not accept:

Bulk & Non-Containerized Liquids,
Radioactive Waste,
Infectious Waste,
Any Material Regulated by TOSCA or RCRA, or
Special Wastes Including:
  • Treated Formerly Characteristic Hazardous Waste
  • Killing Plant Offal
  • Asbestos Waste
  • Ash
  • Infectious Waste
  • Sludge / Biosolids
  • Industrial Solid Waste that Requires Special Handling
  • Chemical Spill Materials
  • Dry Chemicals which when wetted become hazardous
  • Petroleum Contaminated Soils