About Us

About Us

Serving Marin Country Since 1958

Size:	420-acre site of which 222.5 acres are dedicated to waste disposal. The nearly 200 remaining acres support composting, recycling and reuse services and operations facilities as well as open space and a fresh water lagoon for migratory water fowl.
Permits:	Class III disposal facility for non-hazardous materials. Redwood Landfill meets or exceeds all federal, state, and local requirements for landfill management and is regulated by the California State Water Quality Control Board, Bay Area Air Quality Management District, CalRecycle and the Marin County Environmental Health Services Division.
Services:	Yard Waste & Residential Food Scraps Composting WM EarthCare Landscape Center Metals & Appliances Recycling Construction & Demolition Debris Recycling, Reuse & Disposal Municipal Solid Waste Disposal
Capacity:	Permitted to accept 2,310 tons of material daily.

SIte History

1958	Jordan Smith, whose family is the namesake for Smith Ranch Road, established the 600-acre Redwood Landfill.
1978	California created the Integrated Waste Management Board, issuing Redwood its first Solid Waste Facility Permit to accept sludge and solid waste.
1989	New state and federal regulations governing landfill management went into effect, requiring significant investments by operators to meet the new standards. Waste Management (future owner of Redwood Landfill) working closely with Assembly Member Byron Sher, supported the passage of AB 939, the nation’s first mandatory recycling law.
1991	Smith sold Redwood Landfill to Sanifill, Inc.
1994	Redwood Landfill received temporary permit to begin recycling fill materials. It was a leader in helping Marin comply with the new state recycling mandates.
1996	USA Waste of California purchased Sanifill, Inc. including ownership of Redwood Landfill. Redwood instituted additional diversion activities, including composting of yard waste, grinding of concrete and asphalt for base rock and gravel and setting aside metals and appliances delivered by self-haulers for recycling.
1998	Waste Management merged with USA Waste and became the owner and operator of the Redwood Landfill.
2003	Redwood Landfill transferred ownership of 180 acres of land to the Marin Audubon Society to be restored to tidal wetlands.
2006	Redwood Landfill designed, managed construction and paid for a $10 million overcrossing of Highway 101 at the entrance to the landfill.
2008	Received updated Solid Waste Facilities Permit from CalRecycles.
2009	Received updated Waste Discharge Requirements Permit from San Francisco Regional Waster Quality Control Board.
2010	Received Title 5 Air Permit from Bay Area Air Quality Management District.
2014	Constructed Covered Aerated Static Pile (CASP) composting facility, tripling capacity while reducing by 50% the emissions resulting from traditional windrow composting
2017	Opened state-of-the-art landfill gas to electricity plant, delivering 3.9 megawatt of renewable electricity to 5,000 MCE customers annually

Did You Know ?

180 acres of the original 600-acre site were restored to wetland status in partnership with the Marin Audubon Society in 2003.