Allied Waste provides the curbside collection of single family residential recycling. The more you recycle, the less garbage you produce.
Start, Stop, Change Service
- A King County ordinance requires all residential customers to pay for recycling as part of their collection services. If you recycle, you may be able to save money by reducing the size of your garbage container.
- If you are not a garbage customer, Recycling Service only is available for a monthly fee. To sign up, complete the online form or call 206-682-9735.
- To start, stop or change service, complete one of our online forms or call Allied Waste at 206-682-9735.
Find Your Collection Day
- Recycling is collected every other week on the same day as garbage.
Prepare Your Recycling
- Use the containers provided by Allied Waste free of charge, call 206-682-9735.
- Review the list of What Goes in the Recycling Cart?.
- Place your Recycling Cart out by 6 AM on your scheduled collection day. Put carts within 5' of the curb with lid opening toward the street.
- Place excess recyclables in a paper bag or box clearly marked "Recycling" near the Recycling Cart. There is no charge for extra recyclables!
- Remove carts from the curb within 24 hours after collection.
Contamination, such as one ceramic cup mixed in with recyclable glass, can ruin the whole batch and damage processing equipment. Make sure only recyclable items are put into the Recycling Cart. This will result in less items being disposed of as garbage and more items being manufactured into new products. When the wrong items are put in the recycling cart, a written notice will be placed on our container explaining the contamination. Please review recycling guidelines or call 206-682-9735 for assistance.
Additional Recycling
Large and Bulky Items
- Allied Waste collects large bulky items, such as mattresses, appliances and furniture by special arrangement for a fee.
Call 206-682-9735 for details.
Haul Recyclables to the Transfer Station (the Dump)
- Recyclable items can be hauled for recycling to a local transfer station operated by the King County Solid Waste Division:
- Call 206-296-6542 for operating hours and directions
Where to Recycle Unusual Items
- Have an unusual item and wonder if it can be recycled? Visit one of these websites:
Why Recycle?
- Recycling makes economic sense! It's less expensive to recycle materials than to bury them in a landfill or burn them in an incinerator. If everything went into the garbage, garbage rates would be much higher.
- Recyclables are taken to Allied Waste's Recycling Processing Facility in Seattle. Recyclables are sorted, baled and sent to recycling mills, where they are made into new products.
- Recyclables can be made into new products:
- Plastic bottles become new fleece clothing and carpeting.
- Cardboard becomes new cardboard.
- Tin cans become new rebar for construction projects.
- Newspaper becomes fruit packing trays and new paper.
- Glass becomes new glass bottles and jars.
- Aluminum cans become new aluminum cans.
- Recycling conserves natural resources and saves energy! Every ton of recycled paper saves trees, electricity and water, resulting in less air and water pollution than manufacturing a ton of paper from virgin wood pulp.
Preventing Waste is Even Better Than Recycling!
Before you buy, use or discard an item, ask yourself:
- Can I buy this with less packaging?
- Can I buy this made with recycled content?
- Can I use this again?
- Can I recycle this after I use it?
You can reduce waste by Reusing, Recycling and Buying Recycled.
