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Outside City Limits: Unincorporated Skagit Co

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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.


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Mt. Vernon
Thanksgiving Schedule


No collection Thurs, Nov 26.

  • Thursday customers serviced Wednesday, Nov 25
  • Friday customers serviced Monday, Nov 30
    Collection Calendar

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Questions or comments:

Garbage Collection Garbage collection information:
City of Mt. Vernon
360 336-6218
Mt. Vernon City Web Site

Recycling and Yard Waste Collection Recycling and yard waste information:
Waste Management Customer Service
1 800 592-9995







Missed Collection

If your container(s) were at the curb by 6:00 am and were not emptied:

Garbage Collection Missed GARBAGE:
City of Mt. Vernon
Or, 360 336-6218

Recycling and Yard Waste Collection Missed RECYCLING or YARD WASTE:
Waste Management Customer Service
Or, 1 800 592-9995.


Holiday Collection Schedule

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Waste Management collectors
are watching out for your neighborhood.
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Recycling Saves Trees

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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


Click Here for details Special Event Garbage
and Recycling Collection

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

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


Yard waste is collected from subscribing residences:


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

Where to go with old TVs & computers



Customers appreciate WM services
during weather delays
. . . More


WM driver Ed Serna Goes the Extra Mile More


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
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)


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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