What EDCO Disposal does

EDCO Disposal is a family-owned integrated waste management and recycling company founded in 1967 and headquartered in Lemon Grove, California. The company serves residential, commercial, construction & demolition, municipal, and self-haul customers across Southern California, including more than twenty cities and unincorporated areas in San Diego, Orange, and Los Angeles counties. EDCO operates an integrated service portfolio combining residential curbside collection (trash, recycling, organics, household hazardous waste, bulky item pickup), commercial waste and recycling programs, and construction & demolition disposal through wholly-owned subsidiaries and operating brands including SANCO Resource Recovery and EDCO Recovery & Transfer (ER&T).

The company's underlying technology platform centers on a network of processing and disposal infrastructure: Material Recovery Facilities, Construction & Demolition Processing Facilities (including SANCO, which accepts unsorted mixed loads), a Commingled Recycling Processing Center, an Anaerobic Digestion Facility that converts food and green waste into renewable natural gas or electricity, four public 24/7 CNG fueling stations, and twelve or more public transfer stations, disposal sites, and recycling buyback centers. Flagship capacity includes a permitted 1,500 tons-per-day Municipal Solid Waste throughput at the EDCO Recovery & Transfer facility in San Diego, supported by manual separation and segregated bunkered recovery areas.

EDCO's revenue model combines recurring monthly residential and commercial collection subscriptions, exclusive municipal franchise agreements (e.g., a long-standing Facility Franchise Agreement with the City of San Diego generating over $3,000,000 in fees since 2002), transaction-based public disposal site and recycling buyback fees, and one-time construction roll-off rentals. Go-to-market is delivered through direct field collection operations, enterprise municipal sales, a commercial account management team, and a self-serve online portal (including MyOnlineBill integration for payments and service requests). Customer-facing digital tools include residential and commercial diversion calculators and an interactive organics recycling education module, and the website supports English, Spanish, Korean, and Arabic.

Name

EDCO Disposal

Legal name

EDCO Disposal

Website

https://edcodisposal.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1967

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Family-owned integrated waste management and recycling company founded in 1967, providing residential and commercial collection, construction and demolition services, and public disposal, recycling buyback, CNG fueling, and organics-to-energy infrastructure across Southern California.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Solid Waste Management Services

NAICS

Solid Waste Collection (562111), Waste Collection (56211), Waste Collection (5621), Materials Recovery Facilities (562920), Other Waste Collection (562119), Hazardous Waste Collection (562112)

SIC

Refuse Systems (4953), Sanitary Services (4950)

akta.pro primary industry

Industrial & Commercial Waste Collection (Roll-off/Front-load) (IMAIAFAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Residential Junk Removal & Hauling (HSAKALAA), Commercial Junk Removal & Hauling (HSAKALAB), Eco-Friendly Disposal, Recycling & Donation Hauling (HSAIAOAJ)

Keywords

• Waste collection services
• Recycling services
• Construction demolition recycling
• Organics recycling
• Public disposal facilities

Headquarters

HQ city

Lemon Grove

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices13 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Infrastructure, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Residential Waste Collection Services: Weekly collection of household trash, organics and recyclables from residential homes. Services include curbside pickup, recycling, organic recycling, trash collection, household hazardous waste pickup, and bulky item pickup.
2. Commercial Waste Collection Services: Commercial services including recycling, organic recycling, trash collection, bulky item pickup, and roll-off boxes for businesses and commercial properties.
3. Construction & Demolition Services: Dumpster service, roll-off boxes, and storage containers for construction and demolition projects ranging from housing developments to home remodels.
4. Public Disposal Site Fees: Self-hauled waste disposal at public transfer stations and disposal sites for a reasonable cost. Customers pay based on weight/volume of material disposed.
5. Recycling Buyback Services: Buyback center operations purchasing recyclable items such as CRV plastics, cans, bottles, and other materials. Also accepts batteries, cooking oil (FOG), and e-waste for recycling.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

EDCO Disposal provides integrated solid waste collection and recycling services to residential, commercial, and municipal customers across Southern California. Its offering includes curbside residential pickup, commercial front-load and roll-off container service, and public disposal access. The company also operates Material Recovery Facilities, Construction & Demolition/Inert processing centers, an Anaerobic Digestion organics recycling facility, and Compressed Natural Gas fueling stations.

Product overview

EDCO is a family-owned waste collection and recycling company serving Southern California since 1967. The company operates an integrated service portfolio centered on residential and commercial waste collection (curbside pickup, dumpster service, apartments/condos), complemented by construction & demolition services. The company runs multiple processing facilities including Anaerobic Digestion facilities for food/green waste, CDI (Construction, Demolition & Inert) recycling facilities, and a network of public disposal sites and certified buyback recycling centers. Customer-facing digital tools include diversion calculators and an interactive Organics Green Cart Challenge educational quiz. Supporting infrastructure includes CNG fueling stations. The overall offering is structured as a unified waste management platform with multiple service lines rather than a modular software product.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• ER&T: EDCO Recovery & Transfer - waste transfer and recycling facility located at 3660 Dalbergia Street in San Diego, operating since 1995.

Products and services

• Residential curbside collection

Quantifiable outcome

• EDCO Recovery & Transfer processes up to 1,500 tons per day of Municipal Solid Waste
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Feature4 records

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Regional players

• Burrtec Waste Industries: Privately held Southern California waste and recycling company serving municipalities and commercial accounts with collection, transfer, and recycling services — overlapping franchise-based model and regional density with EDCO.
• Recology: Employee-owned California-focused waste and recycling company with exclusive municipal franchise contracts, MRFs, and organics/composting operations — same franchise-anchored model and California regulatory exposure as EDCO.
• Athens Services: Family-owned Southern California waste hauler and recycler with municipal franchise contracts, transfer stations, MRFs, and organics processing — directly comparable operating model and footprint to EDCO.

Broad incumbents

• Republic Services: Major U.S. waste and recycling company with municipal and commercial contracts, MRFs, and organics processing — competes directly with EDCO for franchise renewals and commercial accounts in Southern California.
• Stericycle: Specialty waste services provider focused on regulated waste streams including medical, hazardous, and document destruction — comparable to EDCO's special items disposal and regulated-waste handling services.
• Clean Harbors: Largest North American provider of hazardous waste management and environmental services — comparable to EDCO's Household Hazardous Waste Collection Centers and special-waste handling capabilities.
• GFL Environmental: Large North American diversified environmental services company offering solid waste, recycling, and organics collection/processing — competes with EDCO for commercial accounts and in adjacent regulated waste streams.
• Waste Management Inc. Largest North American waste services company operating collection, transfer, recycling, and disposal infrastructure nationwide — competes with EDCO in Southern California and represents the primary franchise-renewal threat.
• Waste Connections: Large North American solid waste services operator with municipal and commercial collection plus recycling infrastructure — overlaps EDCO's service lines and customer types across secondary markets.

Direct peers

• Casella Waste Systems: Regional vertically-integrated solid waste, recycling, and organics company with municipal contracts, MRFs, and organics processing — closest publicly traded analogue to EDCO's integrated franchise-and-processing model.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/edcodisposal
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/edco-disposal

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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