Site Improvement Funding: Completed Projects

Metropolitan Recycling

Location: Bakersfield

Award: $10,000

Purchased a loading ramp to facilitate load trucks at collection site.

Salinas Valley Solid Waste Authority

Location: Johnson Canyon Landfill, Gonzales

Award: $10,000

Match: $5,017

Purchased and installed base rock at the mattress trailer loading pad. The base rock will be used to improve the public drop-off area for the mattresses.

Salinas Valley Solid Waste Authority

Location: Jolon Road Transfer Station, Salinas

Award: $10,000

Purchased a forklift attachment to assist with moving, loading, and staking the mattresses.

City of San Diego

Location: Miramar Sanitary Landfill

Award: $10,00

Match: $1,700

Purchased a shipping container to store forklift and other equipment at mattress collection site.

Blue Water Recycling Corp.

Location: Alturas

Award: $10,000

Match: $20,467

Erect a carport/ awning style building to keep the mattresses dry

Florin Perkins Public Disposal Site

Location: Sacramento

Award: $10,000

Match: $14,390

Project: Install a 90-foot-by-60-foot asphalt pad, at 4 inches in depth, to better protect stored mattresses.

Gateway Mattress

Location: Montebello

Award: $9,991

Match: $0

Project: Forklift ramp this public collection site to switch from 28’ to 53′ trailer

Highway 59 Landfill

Location: Merced

Award: $10,000

Match: $151,816

Project: Mobile loading dock

Lancaster Landfill and Recycling Center

Location: Lancaster

Award: $7,266

Match: $0

Project: Walking ramp, dolly, pallet jack and carport to provide weather protection and more easily load units into trailer.

Sierra County

Location: Downieville

Award: $10,000

Match: $0

Project: Concrete pad for trailer

Turlock Transfer

Location: Turlock

Award: $10,000

Match: $4,908

Project: Portable loading ramp

Yolo County Landfill

Location: Woodland

Award: $10,000

Match: $14,888

Project: Concrete pad for trailer