Our interview with Yvette was very insightful into how all waste is transported around the bay area. Not being an expert in eWaste or having viable contacts in the eWaste branch of Recology, she was not able to give us much eWaste-specific information, but much of the general information she gave us still applies. The first major takeaway from the interview is the number of hands that waste trades before it reaches its final destination. Recology is primarily the collector of garbage, recycling, green waste and others (such as eWaste) from residents they serve in the San Francisco Bay area stretching from East Palo Alto to Burlingame. All waste regardless of type is then transported to a facility owned by a company named South Bay Recycling, eWaste included.

After a little research, we discovered that South Bay Recycling is actually a subsidiary of "ReThink Waste". Sometimes you'll see their names on garbage and recycling cans in the bay area. While South Bay Recycling doesn't publicly provide information on where their waste is sent, Yvette was able to give us a little insight. Apparently, the company that South Bay Recycling sends eWaste to goes by the name "eRecycling of California", but she was not able to provide us data on the amount of eWaste they were collecting and sending, but she guessed it was "quite a bit". Furthermore, Yvette told us that South Bay Recycling was contracted by the previous company that serviced the San Francisco bay area. When Recology replaced them in 2007, the contract hadn't expired, so they didn't necessarily choose to work with South Bay in the first place.