South King County, Washington - Garbage, Trash, recycling, yard waste, residential, commercial, multifamily Service - Cascade, Fairwood, Maple Valley, Newcastle, Seahurst, and Skyway

* Information below applies only to:

Unincorporated King County south of I-90 & Seattle City limits, north of Auburn City limits.

Cascade

City of Newcastle

Fairwood

Seahurst

Skyway

Top Hat

White Center

Links to service in nearby cities:

Green River Valley

Waste Management Flood Readiness Tips

King County Flood Preparedness

Welcome to Waste Management
Unincorporated South King County *
As your collection company and your neighbor, Waste Management is dedicated to excellent customer service, protection of our environment, and preservation of valuable resources. We "Think Green"!

We hope you will find our website helpful. Let us know if you have suggestions for improving it.

Questions or comments:

Waste Management Customer Service
or 1 800 592-9995.

Other Public Services in
Unincorporated King County

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.

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

Recycling Saves Trees

View TV Commercial

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, Flood, Snow, etc.)

If weather prevents safe collection, we announce delays on radio and TV and on our Collection Delay Bulletin Board

If residential collection containers are not emptied duee to weather, please remove them 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 other week on garbage day.

Yard and Food Waste is collected from subscribing residences:

Weekly Mar - Nov

Every other week Dec-Feb on the opposite week from recycling.

SE King Co. Calendar

E. of Hwy 167
S. of I-90
N. of Auburn,
Incl Fairwood, Maple Valley, Newcastle

SW King Co. Calendar

W. of Hwy 167
S. of Seattle City limits
N. of Auburn
Iincluding Skyway, N Burien

Roll Your Garbage to the Street! Rolling Garbage Cart

Replace your old 32-gallon garbage can with a convenient wheeled 35-gallon garbage cart!

Click here to order your cart today!

E-Cycle Washington lists free responsible recycling locations for computers, monitors and TVs.

Where to go with old TVs & computers

Special Event Garbage
and Recycling Collection
Waste Management can help your organization have a clean, environmentally friendly special event. - Details

Recycle Styrofoam!

Free Renton Drop-off
west of IKEA

Tues - Sat 9:00am - 5:30 pm
Closed Sun & Mon

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)