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As your collection company and your neighbor, Waste Management is dedicated to excellent customer service, protection of our environment, and preservation of valuable resources. We "Think Green"!

We hope you will find our website helpful. Let us know if you have suggestions for improving it.

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Missed Collection

If your container(s) were at the curb by 6:00 am and were not emptied, Click Here or call 1 800 592-9995 (M-F 7 AM - 5 PM).

Holidays

Garbage and recycling are collected on all weekday holidays except Thanksgiving (4th Thursday in Nov), Dec 25, and Jan 1.

If your collection day falls on or in the week after one of those three holidays, collection will be one day later that week only - More.

Regular collection schedule on all other holidays.

Do not put these items in your garbage:
Computers, TVs
Fluorescent bulbs
___& tubes

Motor Oil
Hazardous Waste
Liquid Paint
Needles, syringes
Yard trimmings
Concrete, rocks, dirt
Propane Tanks
Cooking oil
Loose or hot ashes
Loose cat litter
Unbagged animal waste
Loose packing pellets
Unbagged sawdust

Hazardous Waste
Disposal Options

(including free drop sites)


EcoConsumer
Where can we put all those plastics?


By Tom Watson
Special to The Seattle Times


Plastics and recycling have a complicated relationship…. Plastics recycling seems to confuse and frustrate consumers more than any other type of recycling. More



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Weather Delays (Wind, Flood, Snow, etc.)

Weather Delays If weather prevents safe collection, we announce delays on radio and TV and on our Collection Delay Bulletin Board

If residential garbage, recycling or yard waste is not collected due to weather, please remove containers from the street. Up to twice as much material will be accepted with no extra charge on the next regularly scheduled collection day for each container not emptied unless otherwise posted here.

Credit is not given for collection delayed due to weather.

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Curbside Collection

Recycling is collected every other week on garbage day.*

Food/yard Collection

Food scraps accepted with yard trimmings from subscribing residences.

Green-lidded food/yard carts are emptied every other week year 'round on the opposite week from recycling.


Algona Collection on Wed & Th: Algona curbside collection is divided into two collection days: Wednesday and Thursday. Collection days are posted on garbage cart lids.

  • Wednesday Collection: West of Algona Blvd; South of 1st Ave.
  • Thursday Collection: East of Algona Blvd; North of 1st Ave

E Cycle Washington E-Cycle Washington lists free responsible recycling locations for computers, monitors and TVs.

Where to go with old TVs & computers

Styrofoam Recycling

Styrofoam Recycling
Recycle Styrofoam packing materials & peanuts!

Free Renton Drop-off
west of IKEA


Tues - Sat 9:00am - 5:30 pm
Closed Sun & Mon

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and Recycling Collection

Waste Management can help your organization have a clean, environmentally friendly special event. - Details

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Where Do Recyclables Go?

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Watch the Sorting in Action!

Where Do Recyclables Go?
Single Stream Processing


City Inside/Out: Zero Waste

MSN
Battle of the Bags: Paper versus Plastic

King 5 News
Investigators: Some plastic getting greenwashed


Some recycling dos & don'ts

Combined bottles, cans, paper and cardboard collected from residences and businesses, as well as debris from construction and demolition projects are sorted at Waste Management's Cascade Recycling Center in Woodinville. The center employs advanced technologies from the US and Europe, and ships the sorted commodities to domestic and Pacific Rim markets for use in new products.

No shredded paper in recycling, please! (OK layered with food and yard waste) More

No plastic bags in recycling, please! (Reuse or recycle at grocery stores) More

No needles or syringes in recycling, please! More (Medwaste Tracker)


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