In the Community

April 11, 2022

Cal-Waste and the Vaccarezza family are driven by a desire to give back to the communities they service.

For Dave Vaccarezza and his sons, Casey and Rudy, following through on their commitments and giving back to the community are points of pride. They share this ethos with the 200-plus employees of their company, Cal-Waste Recovery Systems. In fact, the company’s official motto, as well as the name of its charitable giving program, is “Giving More Than We Take.”

June 25, 2020

In this clip anchor Lori Wallace shared information about our Observation Room, Educational Program, “Cal-Waste Recycles Right” app, and our commitment to keeping our communities clean and safe by using the most advanced technology available. Click the video now to check it out!

June 25, 2020

In the second video clip Casey Vaccarezza, Director of Operations, talks with Lori Wallace about our new MRF, the work we have been doing during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the new jobs we plan on bringing to the community.

“We saw the need to grow with the expanding recycling market with some contracts that came up around us,” says Casey Vaccarezza, director of operations. “We reached out to CP a second time to build our second version.”

“It’s a new concept that CP put together,” says Vaccarezza. “We’re happy with the results. It’s something new in the industry.”

The setup helps Cal-Waste with challenges in material recovery and labor, notes Casillas. “You don’t have people on the pre-sort tearing bags or grabbing heavy stuff,” says Vaccarezza. “It separates material right out the gate before it gets to a sorter’s hands where they have to handle something bulky in a bag and not know what’s in that bag.”
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CP Group recently completed a total system upgrade at Cal-Waste, Galt, California, that involved adding a Primary Auger Screen, a GlassBreaker Screen, an AWScreen, a CPScreenTM, a Scalping Auger Screen and five MSS optical sorters.

Dave Vaccarezza, owner of Cal-Waste says the Primary Auger Screen, “Takes the burden depth down to a much more manageable level and does a great job of spreading everything out so there are no big lumps and clumps.” It also has allowed Cal-Waste to reduce the number of sorters on the presort line from eight to four. Even with the reduction in workforce, the MRF increased its capacity from 11 tons per hour (tph) to 30 tph.

The Scalping Auger Screen further splits the material into homogeneously sized streams. “I think it is working very well there,” Vaccarezza says. To read more, click here.

The City of Angels Mayor & City Council in cooperation with Angels Camp Business Association, Destination Angels Camp and Bank of Stockton held a Celebration Dinner on January 27th at Bank of Stockton. The dinner was catered by The Pickle Patch. Angels Camp Business Association honored Cal Waste for their continued support of our Community. Without the support of Cal Waste many ACBA sponsored events would not succeed. To read more, click here.

“The U.S. recycling industry is breaking down. Prices for scrap paper and plastic have collapsed, leading local officials across the country to charge residents more to collect recyclables and send some to landfills. Used newspapers, cardboard boxes and plastic bottles are piling up at plants that can’t make a profit processing them for export or domestic markets.” To read more, click here.

“The city of Galt, in collaboration with the Cosumnes River Preserve and Galt Joint Union Elementary School District, is pleased to present the 11th annual Winter Bird Festival. Festival guests will enjoy the beauty and tranquility of the Cosumnes River Preserve and the incredible opportunity to catch sightings of waterfowl, shorebirds and wildlife in their winter habitat.” To read more, click here.

During the month of January, Cal-Waste sees a huge influx of cardboard being processed at it’s MRF Facility in Galt due to extensive online shopping during Christmas. CBS Sacramento’s Call Kurtis discussed this on a 2018 televised news segment on Channel 13, featuring our Community Outreach Coordinator MaryBeth Ospital and Chief Operations Officer Jack Fiori.

“Although Bill Ferrero lives in Stockton and works for the Cal-Waste Recovery Systems sales department during the week, his true passion is the Mokelumne River, and has been since 1957 when his parents built their family home on Turner Road near Lodi Lake when he was only 4 years old.” To read the article, click here.

Cal-Waste guest starred on the Discovery Channel’s hit show “MythBusters” in July of 2014. The show, which was filmed at the Carson Hill Mine near Angels Camp, answered the question “Just how much damage can a fertilizer bomb do to a garbage truck?” To take the experiment a little further, Cal-Waste will soon be unveiling our new e-Mail series “Busting Recycling Myths”