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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.

Waste Management Customer Service:

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1 800 592-9995 (M-F 7 AM - 5 PM)


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Other services in the City of Federal Way

Missed Collection

If your container(s) were at the curb by 7:00 am and were not emptied, report online 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 schedule on all other holidays.


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

Motor Oil
Hazardous Waste
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)


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

Where to go with old TVs & computers

EcoConsumer
Where can we put all those plastics?


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


Waste Management collectors
are watching out for your neighborhood.
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and Recycling Collection

Waste Management can help your organization have a clean, environmentally friendly special event. - Details
WM Sustainable Solutions
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Ask Rita The Recycler - Click Here

Ask Rita
The Recycler

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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City of Federal Way Recycling Options

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Computer and TV Recycling
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Curbside Collection

Subscribe here for convenient curbside garbage collection, including recycling at no extra charge!

Recycling is collected from blue carts every other week.


Food scraps & yard trimmings are collected from subscribers:

Collect food scraps and food-soiled paper in :


Request recycling schedule

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


Federal Way garbage haulers
collect food bank donations


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Lee Julian, of Waste Management, fills the floor of his truck with donated food during a run in Federal Way. The nonperishables collected went to the Multi-Service Center's food bank. More

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Federal Way Symphony!


As the City’s solid waste and recycling contractor, Waste Management is extremely proud of our community and the array of arts, environmental enhancements and other features that make Federal Way a special place to live and work. The Federal Way Symphony is an organization in which we can all take pride.

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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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