ReGen Monterey

09/05/2026

09/03/2026

Now that’s what we like to see! 😍🍌🥬🌿 A fresh delivery of food scraps and yard trimmings from your green curbside cart! Just like you do with your recyclables, thank you for sorting your food scraps and spoiled food at home and placing them together in your green organics cart. We’re proud to work with you to create a circular local economy, where the food and yard trimmings you toss today become compost that helps grow more local food. 🌱

08/25/2026

As ReGen celebrates its 75th anniversary, we’re proud of the reputation we’ve built as a research hub and testing ground for innovation in environmental technology.

Our Engineering and Compliance team recently hosted Sniffer Robotics for a demo of the SnifferDRONE, which can fly autonomously just 6 meters off the ground to “sniff” out methane, pinpoint leak locations, and stream real-time visualizations straight to compliance staff at waste management sites.

Traditionally, monitoring required walking hundreds of acres of our site.

ReGen tests and uses drone technology that offers faster, safer surface emissions monitoring, keeping our staff off steep slopes and out of rough terrain and bad weather, while covering both active and closed areas.

When organic material decomposes inside the landfill, it can create methane emissions. As a public agency, protecting the environment isn’t just something we’re required to do, it’s something we’re very committed to. That’s why we work to identify leaks quickly and install landfill gas wells that pull gases toward a renewable power plant, turning methane into electricity that powers our entire facility and supplies power to the community. We’re proud to be one of the first in the country with a Landfill Gas-to-Energy facility.

08/24/2026

We get our from employees like Regina Santa Cruz, whose 20 years of public service remind the rest of us what dedication to public service looks like.

We often highlight our frontline employees on our social media feeds, but there are many others behind the scenes who keep this complex machine running — and there are not many public facilities as complex as our Materials Recovery Facility (MRF). As an Operations Support Specialist in our recycling plant, Regina makes sure our sorters and maintenance crews have the supplies they need, and she coordinates the shipping of commodities after plastic, aluminum, glass, cardboard, and paper are sorted and ready for loading into semi-trucks outside the MRF. Every day, 250 tons of materials are sorted here, and we’re thankful for her steady hand in helping close that circular loop of recycling and shipping to manufacturers.

Thank you for your service to ReGen and the community, Regina!

08/21/2026

Who’s got that ? This customer does! We crossed paths with a smiling, regular customer — here three times a week — at our Public Drop-Off center. We love our regular customers, and we welcome new ones too! ReGen is a “one-stop shop”: donate items to Last Chance Mercantile, use our free drop-off service for recyclables, electronics, mattresses, and household hazardous waste, or bring in a load from a day of landscaping, construction, or home cleanout. We’re here for you!

08/20/2026

At a dynamic site with heavy equipment, miles of conveyors, 800–1,000 customers a day and thousands of tons of material moving across hundreds of acres, safety is a top priority at ReGen Monterey.

Every employee, whether working in an office or out in the field, participates in regular training throughout the year to help keep one another and our visitors safe. Much of that work is led by our Safety team, which also organizes one of our favorite annual traditions: Safe + Sound Week!

Safe + Sound Week is a nationally recognized event that brings together more than 4,600 businesses and organizations to raise awareness about workplace safety and health. At ReGen, we make it educational, competitive and fun.

This year’s activities included:
🧯 Sitewide fire extinguisher training
🦺 Safety trivia competitions testing what we’ve learned throughout the year
🔎 Staged safety hazards, with raffle tickets for employees who spotted them
🚜 Heavy equipment safety and skills competitions between departments

The week also gives us a chance to look back on our safety accomplishments and recognize our Safety Heroes — employees who have gone above and beyond to demonstrate safe practices and look out for their coworkers.

Thank you to our Safety team for another great Safe + Sound Week, and to everyone across ReGen Monterey who helps make safety part of what we do every day.

08/19/2026

Load ‘em up! Thank you to our talented Materials Recovery Facility forklift drivers, busy all day picking up 1,000-pound cubes of aluminum, mixed paper, cardboard and plastics #1, 2 and 5, and weaving through the maze of our recycling plant to deliver bales to delivery trucks waiting outside. We’re happy to see materials diverted from the landfill and sent to manufacturers to be recycled into new products, all thanks to you and frontline staff.

08/17/2026

It’s ! Shoutout to our very own Last Chance Mercantile, one of the community’s most beloved secondhand stores. Last Chance has become a national model in the waste management and resource recovery industry — items sold at the store are donated by the community or saved by ReGen Monterey staff at drop-off, items that would otherwise have been headed for the landfill.

Having the store on our campus fits our mission to “do more to waste less” by giving people a convenient place to donate or pick up quality used items. We’re grateful that the Veterans Transition Center of California runs the store today — proceeds help benefit local veterans in need, and the store doubles as a great workforce training center.

Thank you for supporting our veterans, saving limited landfill space, and creating a fun experience for local secondhand treasure hunters!

08/17/2026

Together, let's feed people, not landfills 🍽

Along with and the help of , we are again awarding up to $100,000 to non-profit organizations, businesses, or public entities that collect, generate, and distribute food to those in need within the County of Monterey through our Edible Food Recovery Grant Program!

Eligible entities are encouraged to apply by October 15, 2026! Learn more and apply by visiting svswa.org/food-recovery-organizations/