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Missed Collection If your container(s) were at the curb by 6:00 am and were not emptied, Click Here or call 1 800 592-9995. 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, 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

Weather Delays (Wind, Flooding, Snow, etc.) 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. Curbside Collection All-in-One Recycling is collected every week on garbage day. Yard and Food Waste is collected weekly year 'round. Electronics (computers, TVs, etc.) are accepted at the curb with advance notice. Sustainable Solutions - Newsletter And More Ask Rita The Recycler Special Event Garbage and Recycling Collection Waste Management can help your organization have a clean, environmentally friendly special event. - Details 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

Computers and Televisions Accepted at Curb with Prior Arrangement Computers, laptops, monitors, separated computer circuit boards and televisions contain heavy metals. They cannot be disposed of as garbage and must be recycled. Bothell residents can recycle electronics at the curb by calling 1 800 592-9995 at least one business day ahead of garbage collection day. More | Other Disposal Options

Where Do Recyclables Go? Watch the Sorting in Action! Where Do Recyclables Go? Single Stream Processing City Inside/Out: Zero Waste Battle of the Bags: Paper versus Plastic 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)