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Welcome to Waste Management
- City of Seattle *
As your collection company and your neighbor in the community, Waste Management believes personal, one-to-one service is the key to successful relationships. We are dedicated to excellent customer service, active community involvement, protection of our environment, and preservation of valuable resources. We "Think Green!"
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New Services Started March 30:
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Seattle Recycling in the News:
Seattle Service Changes Start March 30, 2009:
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
West Seattle Herald - February 13, 2009
SEATTLE - Mar. 4, 2008 - Mayor Greg Nickels announced today that Seattle set a new city record for recycling rates in 2006, with 47.5 percent of the city’s residential, commercial and self-haul waste heading to recycling bins instead of the landfills. More
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.
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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
 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
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
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.
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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
"Recycle. Why Waste a Good Thing?"
Public Service Announcement Campaign awarded SWANA's 2006 Gold Excellence Award for Communications. |
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Recyclables Not Allowed in Seattle Garbage
