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Properly Dispose of Cooking Oil

The community cooking oil recycling drop off tank at French Lake Dog Park is now closed. Please place in plastic containers (like a milk jug) labeled with your name and address. Limit: 3 gallons per pick up and 10 gallons per year. Set at curb on your regular curbside recycling collection day. Used cooking oil is currently not recyclable due to national public policy changes. WM will continue to dispose of cooking oil properly while recycling alternatives are identified. Do not pour cooking oil down drains.

Curbside Recycling

By recycling you are helping to save energy, reduce water pollution, reduce water consumption, preserve natural resources and create jobs.

Collection Calendar


Your recycling is collected every other week on garbage day. There is no limit on the amount of clean recycling you can set out for collection. Put recycling that doesn't fit in your cart in old recycling bin or cardboard boxes (limit 3'x3'x3').

Collection Rates


Recycling is provided at no extra cost with your basic garbage service. Recycling and preventing waste can sometimes reduce garbage enough for residents to order a smaller garbage container for a lower rate.

WM oops tag

WM Recycle Right

Recycling Cart Tags


The City of Federal Way 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.

For more information, visit: www.wm.com/us/en/recycle-right

Recycling Tips


  • Empty clean recyclables out of bags and boxes and put them loose in your cart so that they can be easily identified and sorted at the recycling center. Clean paper bags and cardboard boxes are recyclable. Just put them in your cart after you empty them. Recyclables in plastic bags may be mistaken for garbage at the sorting center.

  • NO plastic bags in recycling. (Reuse or recycle at grocery stores) - Plastic bags get caught in conveyor belts at the recycling center.

  • NO shredded paper in recycling. Because of its size, shredded paper is difficult to sort from other recyclables.

  • Extra Recycling. There is no limit on the amount of clean recyclables you can set out for collection. Put recycling that doesn't fit in your cart in recycling bins, cardboard boxes (limit 3'x3'x3'), or a 32-gallon can with handles marked "recycling".

Electronics Recycling


Check out the King County website for locations that accept electronics for recycling - click here.


WM Blue Recycling Cart


Click here to download - Collection Guidelines


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Residential Customers

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Click here to download - Take the Recycle Right Pledge


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