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From Seattle Public Utilities as of Saturday AM:

Normal residential collections to resume on Monday, Jan. 23.

Neighborhood road conditions prevent safe collection of delayed residential garbage, recycling, and food and yard waste today, Saturday.

All customers who did not have their solid waste picked up during the past week may set out double amounts for their next regularly scheduled collection at no extra charge.

Most commercial and apartment customers will have waste collection service today or Sunday, Jan. 22.

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Barb has lived in south Wallingford since 1992. She's a lady with a lopper as volunteer lead of the Burke-Gilman Trail Urban Orchard Stewards, a group that cares for public fruit trees along the Burke-Gilman Trail between Eastern and where Pacific becomes N 34th. In February 2020 Barb founded the current Friends of Meridian Playground which cares for the fruit trees and grounds of the park and holds weekly volunteer work parties on Wednesday noonish. Friday mornings she joins the Tilth Alliance volunteers to manage the care of the fruit trees at the Good Shepherd learning garden. Barb worked for nonprofit City Fruit for 9 years and still partners with them to teach neighbors to grow good fruit locally. Barb is also accumulating records and photos about the Good Shepherd property for eventual publication online.

This Post Has 17 Comments

  1. Kimberly C January 21, 2012

    Do you know if we’ll be able to put our recycling out next week (not the normally scheduled week) or if we’ll need tt hang onto that until the next regularly scheduled pick-up day?

    Thanks!

  2. coco January 21, 2012

    Get out there folks,
    Per above SPU will be collecting most commercial an dapartment customers today or Sunday. We are people, customers. They are collecting us. For what purpose? Or is this part of the new govmt ‘right to detain with no reason if terrorism suspected?

    Im going to Tacoma

  3. Barb January 21, 2012

    An earlier SPU posting said: “If your materials are not picked up, please put them out on your next regularly scheduled pickup day. ” I’m guessing that means recycling will have to wait for the next recycling pickup day, Feb.3.

  4. coco January 21, 2012

    nice editting

  5. Janey January 21, 2012

    I’m stressing a bit about the recycling. My container was almost full — not sure where I’ll fit two more weeks worth! (Garbage, never a problem and yard waste, not a problem at this time of year!)

  6. Neighbor January 21, 2012

    Janey you’re obviously not fit for this neighborhood, you’re consuming way too much. Thanks for killing the environment.

  7. Janey January 21, 2012

    Neighbor — Nice, thanks

  8. Barb January 21, 2012

    Store your extra recycling in a cardboard box or paper bag and place it next to your recycling cart on collection day. Or take your recyclables to the transfer station – no charge.

  9. Jeff January 22, 2012

    Is it just me, or is it super-weak that recycling is only picked up every other week… I usually have maybe 2 paper shopping bags of compost/yard waste on most weeks and 1 QFC-sized plastic bag of landfill-trash, but my recycling bin is overflowing with junk mail, beer bottles, tin cans, and cardboard packaging.

    I’d be much happier if regular trash was picked up biweekly, and recycling was collected every week.

  10. Allison January 22, 2012

    I agree with Jeff – I would like to see garbage bi-weekly and recyling every week. We are a family of 5 and our recycling is always full after 2 weeks. 4 weeks of recycling will be insane. I plan to take our bulky items (cardboard and bottles) to the transfer station.

    Neighbor doesn’t seem like a good neighbor. Presumptuous and exclusionary.

  11. Brian January 22, 2012

    Allison — I believe Neighbor was being facetious. It seems that Janey got it.

  12. Allison January 22, 2012

    Brian – thanks for clarifying. Glad I just misunderstood. I recently commented on another Wallyhood article that got a little heated, so I must have that one in the back of my mind.

  13. j January 22, 2012

    I’m completely down with weekly recycling. We don’t even fill our tiny trash bin anymore and our compost is often half full.

  14. Andy January 22, 2012

    Two weeks for recycling is difficult for my family of 4. I agree with Jeff, I would be happy if recycilng were picked up every week. What to do to push for this change?

  15. Donn January 23, 2012

    It might be an opportune moment. I am checking with my neighbors. We live close, and I believe we could wheel our bins in, on foot. With enough participating neighbors in the parade, it could be a nice publicity stunt.

    I don’t know the range of a fully loaded recycling bin, but I’m hoping they’re good for 6 blocks or so if you take it easy. Might be able to arrange for support for breakdowns if there aren’t too many. Plan your route to avoid steep grades.

  16. Nancy M January 23, 2012

    We urged SPU to have scheduled yard waste pick-up more frequently many years ago by pointing out that when (in December then) the pick-up decreased to once a month (and on into spring) the bulk of the leaves had not fallen; conscientious rakers were having to keep containers of leaves and parcel them out to the curb over months. It was silly and surprisingly easy to fix once they had the information. That said, in speaking with them, be sure to get the name of someone you can recontact until the change is seen through.

  17. barbbsea January 23, 2012

    Just confirmed with SPU – garbage and yard waste will be picked up Friday, Jan. 27 in Wallingford. Recycling will be picked up Friday, Feb. 3 (the usual alternate week recycling day). You can put out double your usual amount on those days. In other words, the trucks are running on their normal schedule.

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