Recycling

Garbage and Recycling Pickup Delayed Until Next Week

Here's an update on garbage collection, as of Saturday AM: No Garbage Pickup Today (Saturday). 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 be collected today…

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Happy New Year! Your Garbage Rates Just Went Up

NOTE:  Solid waste collections are on regular collection schedule for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Monday, January 16.  Seattle's recycling & disposal stations will also remain open on that day. Did you know? Solid waste rates increased 15% for residential customers effective January 1, 2012. New monthly garbage rates  - for weekly curbside collection: 12 gallon micro-can:  $17.55 20 gallon mini-can:  $21.55 one 32 gallon can:  $28.05 two 32 gallon or one 64 gallon cart: $56.10 three 32 gallon or one…

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Post-Holiday “Green” Donations

"It's The Most Wa-asteful Time Of The Year" - you know the tune,  now  put those holiday trappings where they belong. Such as: Old computers: The very best place for refurbishing and reusing computers and computer peripherals is InterConnection, at 3415 Stone Way N. InterConnection will also take non-computer electronics and pass them on to local recyclers. 206-633-1517 Wrapping paper: Save the best for next year. Recycle other paper  wrapping, remove tape when possible. Metallic and plastic wrapping goes in the garbage.…

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Holiday Lights Recycling

Update: The Girl Scout office accepts light strings for recycling only during their office hours Dec. 27-30, so call 800-767-6845  before you try to drop them off.  Barb's offer to pick up your lights before the 30th still stands (see her email below). Do you feel guilty about sending those burned out strings of holiday lights to the landfill? Plus that extra weight in your garbage can will hurt Wallingford's numbers in the "Think Green Recycling Challenge." Now is your chance…

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Thanksgiving Recycling Checklist

Thanksgiving is undoubtedly the most wasteful time of the year as far as food goes. Don't buy more food than you'll need. Freeze leftovers before you're tired of them. Avoid unnecessary packaging. But for those items that just need to get out of the house, use this checklist of what goes in which bin: FOOD AND YARD WASTE: Poultry, meat, fish and bones, pumpkins and jack-o-lanterns (no candles), plus every other kind of food item except fat, oil, and grease (see…

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Food Waste – It’s Not Garbage Any More

REMINDER to Wallingford residents: Garbage, recycling, and yard waste pickup will be one hour earlier – 6:00 am – this Friday, October 28. The earlier pickup time is in response to the viaduct closure and is only for Seattle residents living north of the Ship Canal and west of I-5. If you really want to reduce the size of your garbage can, plus make your garbage can less "fragrant,"  put all of your food scraps into your yard/food waste container. Any…

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Save Some Cash With Your Trash

The Green Recycling Challenge is up and running with its new website: http://www.wmnorthwest.com/seattle/seattlerewards.html Starting in mid-November, the data graph will be updated each month and we’ll be able to see how our 'hood is doing at reducing its landfill footprint. In the middle of the web site above, use the "Click Here" link to find Wallingford in the Friday North area on the Seattle route map.  Friday refers to the day that garbage, recycling, and yard waste are picked up. Wallingford…

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