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Mayor Announces Changes to Help Home Owners Recycle More, Easier New Contracts Reflect Seattle's National Leadership in Recycling and Waste Prevention SEATTLE - Feb. 20, 2008 - Meat and dairy products will be allowed in the yard waste cart, glass will go in the same recycling container as paper and plastic, and more plastic materials will be eligible for recycling, thanks to new solid waste contracts that could take effect in Seattle next year, Mayor Greg Nickels announced today. More 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 Seattle 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, which will begin in 2009, Waste Management will service some of Seattle's largest collection areas in South and Northwest Seattle. More

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 same week after one of those three holidays, your service will be delayed one day. Regular schedule on all other holidays. Do not put these items in your garbage: Computers and TVs Fluorescent Bulbs __.and 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) 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

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. Curbside Collection Recycling is collected from carts and glass bins every other week on the same day as garbage. Yard and vegetative food waste is collected from subscribing residences every other week on the opposite week from recycling. Collection Calendar Commercial Collection Waste Management collects all commercial garbage south of Royal Brougham Way/Jackson St within the City limits of Seattle. So. of Royal Brougham Wy / Jackson St: Waste Management Commercial Garbage Service - 206 762-3000 No. of Royal Brougham Wy / Jackson St.: Allied Waste - 206 332-7777 Commercial Recycling Construction Services Only commercial garbage collection is regulated by geographical areas in the City of Seattle. Waste Management provides commercial recycling and construction services to businesses anywhere in the City, as well as outside the City. Contact Waste Management Commercial Recycling & Construction Services 206 762-3000

Recyclables Not Allowed in Seattle Garbage

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

Seattle Recycling in the News: Expanded recycling plan for Seattle proposed Seattle P-I - February 20, 2008 Seattle residents would be able to toss meat and dairy scraps into yard-waste containers and quit separating recyclable materials next year under a plan announced Wednesday by city officials. More Talking Trash Seattle Magazine - December, 2007 It’s 2 o’clock in the afternoon on a warm spring day...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’s Recycling Success Is Being Measured in Scraps - October, 2007 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 Where Your Seattle Trash Ends Up And you thought taking out the garbage was a big chore. Seattle P-I - July 2007 Photo Gallery: Follow the Trash Seattle getting better at recycling its trash Seattle Times - November 2006 When the city of Seattle began punishing people who didn't recycle enough, critics said the city had gone too far by dictating how people should deal with their trash. A year into it, people seem to have embraced it. More 'Zero waste' is Seattle's new garbage mantra Seattle P-I - July 2005 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.