Auburn, Washington - Garbage, Trash, recycling, yard waste, residential, commercial, multifamily Service

Residential / Curbside Services

Waste Management provides professional, efficient and courteous curbside garbage, recycling and yard waste collection for Auburn residents.

* Information below applies only to service
inside the City limits (City Map).

Outside City Limits: Unincorporated Area Service

Curbside Garbage & Recycling:
City of Auburn Curbside Garbage & Recycling - 253 931-3038.

Commercial & Multi-family Garbage:

City of Auburn Commercial & Multi-family Garbage - 253 931-3038

Commercial & Multi-family Recycling:
Waste Management Commercial & Multi-family Recycling - 1 800 592-9995 (M-F 7 AM - 5 PM).

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)

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

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.

Curbside Collection

All-in-One Recycling is collected every other week on the same day as garbage.

Reduce your garbage with curbside yard & food scrap collection!

Food scraps and food-soiled paper are now accepted with yard trimmings in yard waste carts.

Yard trimmings & food scraps are collected from subscribing residences:

Weekly April-Nov.
Every other week Dec-Mar.

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

Where to go with old TVs & computers

Where Do Recyclables Go?

Watch the Sorting in Action!

Where Do Recyclables Go?
Single Stream Processing

City Inside/Out: Zero Waste

Battle of the Bags: Paper versus Plastic

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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