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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"!

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Commercial Services

Waste Management Commercial

Garbage and Recycling

1 800 592-9995

Residential / Curbside Services

Seattle Public Utilities
206 684-3000

Apartments and Condos

Seattle Public Utilities

206-684-7665

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Outside City Limits
Unincorporated King County Service

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  • Pioneer Square Clear Alleys Service
  • Commercial Garbage & Recycling
  • Recycling Guidelines in multiple languages
  • Look It Up (what items go where - garbage, recycling or food/yard collection)

    Subscribe to CurbWaste E-News for online updates!



  • King 5 TV News:
    MIT tracking Seattle trash



    Missed Collection

    If your container(s) were at the curb by 7:00 am and were not emptied, Click Here.

    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 and 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)



    Waste Management collectors
    are watching out for your neighborhood.
    More

    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


    Recyclables Not Allowed in Seattle Garbage


    The City of Seattle prohibits the disposal of certain recyclables from residential, commercial and self-haul garbage. - more

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


    If City of Seattle curbside garbage, recycling or yard waste is not collected due to weather, please visit www.cityofseattle.net/util/services/ or Waste Management's weatherboard for collection schedule updates.


    Apartment/Condo Collection





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    Curbside Food Collection

    Food scraps (including meat and dairy) and yard waste are collected weekly.

     

    Curbside Recycling video

    Important! - Put clean glass bottles in your Recycling cart with other recyclables!   Keep your old glass bin for extra recyclables or other uses.

    Curbside recycling is collected every other week .


    Commercial Collection

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    Waste Management is the exclusive commercial garbage collector in:

  • Northwest Seattle (north of the Ship Canal west of I-5) and
  • South Seattle (south of Yesler Way, west of I-5, south of I-90)
  • Waste Management service areas are beige on the map.


    Commercial recycling and construction services available to all Seattle businesses.

    Waste Management provides commercial recycling and construction services to businesses across the City, as well as outside the City.

    Contact Waste Management Commercial Recycling & Construction Services
    206 762-3000


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    Seattle: Driver assists with emergency More

    Seattle Recycling in the News:

    Seattle Times
    Economic Indicator: Garbage

    Seattle Service Changes Start March 30, 2009:

    KIRO TV News
    KING 5 News
    Q13 Fox News

    Democracy Now!

    Rainier Valley Post

    West Seattle Herald

    NWCN.com

    MSNBC

    Seattle Times
    Seattle P.I.

    Seattle Medium

    KOMO TV News

    The Stranger

    My Northwest.com


    Seattle PI - March 4, 2009

    Changes coming to city's recycling program


    Seattle Times - March 4, 2009

    Seattle recycling taken to next level


    Better Recycling Coming to Seattle March 30
    New Programs Include Weekly Food/Yard Waste Collection, Glass Commingling


    KOMONEWS.COM - Mar 2, 2009

    Seattle on recycling: Why waste a good thing?


    Ballard News Tribune - February 23, 2009

    Green My Ballard: Recycling made easier


    West Seattle Herald - February 13, 2009

    New trash pick-up days announced





    New Collection Contract With Seattle Increases Waste Management's Service Area

    Waste Management's operations will grow 28 percent residentially and 73 percent commercially

    SEATTLE - Feb. 20, 2008 - The city of Seattle has selected Waste Management to provide environmental services to more than half of the city, the company announced today. During this ten-year contract Waste Management will service some of Seattle's largest collection areas in South and Northwest Seattle. More


    Click Here Talking Trash

    Seattle Magazine - December, 2007

    It’s 2 o’clock in the afternoon...the street is lined with boxy green and black plastic trash bins. Trash and recycling trucks rumble along....More



    Businesses tagged for violating recycling rules

    Seattle P-I - November, 2007
    Somebody keeps putting recyclables in the garbage bin at the Capo office building in Seattle, and Michael Durbin, the property manager, does not know quite what to do about it. . . . More


    Seattle Recycling
    The New York Times October, 2007


    Seattle’s Recycling Success Measured in Scraps -

    Out here next to Steamboat Slough and the lumber mill, piles of garbage from Seattle are lined up in neat rows and blanketed with a fabric similar to that used in high-end Gore-Tex clothing. More


    Andy Rogers/Seattle Post-Intelligencer

    Seattle P-I - July 2007
    Where Your Seattle Trash Ends Up

    And you thought taking out the garbage was a big chore.
    Photo Gallery: Follow the Trash


    Seattle Times - November 2006

    Seattle getting better at recycling its trash
    Waste Management hauler Tim Magnuson empties glass into his recycling truck Wednesday in the Crown Hill neighborhood. GREG GILBERT / THE SEATTLE TIMES

    When the city of Seattle began punishing people who didn't recycle enough, critics said the city had gone too far....A year into it, people seem to have embraced it. More


    Seattle P-I - July 2005
    'Zero waste' is Seattle's new garbage mantra

    Moving beyond recycling to preventing garbage itself as the next generation of social and civic responsibility, Seattle Public Utilities is launching an initiative called Wasteless in Seattle. More


    Seattle's Recycling Ordinance
    "Recycle. Why Waste a Good Thing?"

    Public Service Announcement Campaign awarded SWANA's 2006 Gold Excellence Award for Communications.

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