Vernon is committed to recycling. Vernon's Health Department oversees the collection of California Redemptive Value (CRV) recyclable containers such as aluminum cans, glass and plastic bottles, and materials such as paper, cardboard and scrap metals.

Vernon's Health Department staff hosts periodic 'e-waste' recycling events that allow businesses and residents to properly dispose of electronic devices – computer monitors, televisions, dry cell batteries, fluorescent tubes and printer cartridges – that cannot be sent to landfills.