Sustainability starts in the community. With WM as your
partner, you can count on reliable service and solutions
that help keep our community sustainable, clean and safe.
Thank you for partnering with WM, for a sustainable
tomorrow.
Algona residents have weekly collection for garbage and
every-other-week collection for recycling. Customers
subscribing to yard / food waste receive every other
week collection on the opposite weeks of recycling.
Collection day in Algona is Thursday.
WM observes three annual holidays: Thanksgiving Day,
Christmas Day (Dec. 25), and New Year's Day (Jan.
1). All other holidays will not affect your
collection schedule.
Weekday holidays will delay collection by one day
for the remainder of the week. For example, if a
holiday falls on a Thursday, Thursday customers will
be collected on Friday and Friday customers will be
collected on Saturday.
The City of Algona and WM use "Recycling Only Oops" to monitor
contamination in recycling carts. If a
driver spots unaccepted materials in your
recycling cart, the cart will be tagged
letting you know how to properly dispose of
those items.
Our increased efforts in recycling right and
reducing contamination is a result of new
restrictions by China in the type of
materials collected for recycling. We all
need to do our part in helping to make
recycling sustainable for years to come.
