Solid Waste and Recycling Information

 
New garbage and recycling guidelines began in 2007. A new guide was sent to all households in the City. The current brochure can be downloaded by clicking the image at left.

The City of Lake Forest Park & Allied Waste Services are working together to bring new recycling and yard and food waste recycling programs to your neighborhood. New technologies and markets make recycling more cost-effective and easier every year!

Green Yard & Food Waste Carts

If you live in a household in Lake Forest Park and have an outdoor yard waste cart that is picked up by Allied waste- read on, you have more service available.

Allied waste will accept food scraps with yard waste in your yard waste cart. Here is a list of what is acceptable:

• Meat, fish, poultry, bones
• Dairy products (yogurt, cottage cheese, etc.)
• Vegetable and fruit trimmings
• Egg shells, bread, pasta and coffee grounds
• Table scraps
• Solid food leftovers
• Paper towels and napkins
• Paper coffee filters and tea bags
• Greasy pizza delivery boxes.
  

To learn more about the program and to find out tips for collecting scraps in your kitchen, visit King County’s website www.recyclefood.org. Recycle Food. It’s Easy To Do!

To participate in the food waste recycling program residents must put food waste in the green yard waste cart.

Blue Recycling Carts
Blue carts are intended for paper and mail, newspapers and advertising inserts, flattened cardboard (no larger than 3 ft. x 3 ft.), shredded paper (in clear plastic bags only), milk cartons and juice boxes, cans, bottles, food boxes (liner removed) , plastic bottles and jugs (no caps), plastic round dairy tubs (no lids), plastic shopping and newspaper bags (bag in tied plastic bag), aluminum and tin cans (labels are ok), glass bottles and jars (no lids), scrap metal (limit: 2 ft. x.2 ft., 35 lbs.)

Other Recycling

Electronics Update January 2009

There are two big changes coming up 1) New FREE electronics recycling program and 2) HDTV conversion.

1) FREE Electronics Recycling.
It is now illegal to throw computers and TVs away. To help residents recycling these items, there are a few options:

? E-cycling is here. Washington now has a FREE, convenient and environmentally responsible recycling program for computers, monitors, laptops and televisions.

Who can use the program?
Households, small businesses, schools & school districts, small governments, special purpose districts, and charities can recycle electronic products free of charge in this program. Click here for more information.

Where can I recycle?
Call 1-800-RECYCLE or visit 1800recycle.wa.gov to find electronic product recycling services in your area.

What can I recycle for free?

• televisions
• computers
• computer monitors
• portable or laptop computers

 

If you live in a house in Lake Forest Park, call 206-682-9730 at least one business day before your regular recycling pick up, to schedule a collection from Allied Waste. This is free of charge--size and weight limits apply.
? If you live in an apartment or you are a small business, visit www.ecyclewashington.org for a location that will accept your electronics for free.

2) HDTV conversion.
You do not need to purchase a new TV in order to convert to the new DTV standards.

This change will not affect customers with TVs ready for digital, customers with cable or with satellite cable. Most televisions sold within the past few years are ready for DTV. Households and businesses that will notice this change, receive their television signal directly through an antennae or “rabbit ears.”

If you are one of these households, know that you will not need to get rid of your television; rather you will need to purchase a converter box. Converter boxes are about $50-$60 each. There are coupons offered by the federal government for $40 to provide help in making this change. To find out more about coupons, and where you can purchase converter boxes, visit https://www.dtv2009.gov/.

Other items collected separately include electronics (computer monitors, cell phones) and textiles (clothing & household linens). See new program details inside the brochure (available by clicking the image at left.)

You can recycle batteries and small electronic items at City Hall.

Detailed recycling information can also be found online at www.Rabanco.com.

There is no extra charge for pickup of recycling. If your pickup day falls on or after Thanksgiving, Christmas or New Year's Day, collection will be one day later that week for the balance of the week through Saturday. Click here or on the image at left to download the solid waste/recycling pickup schedule and guidelines. Information at King County Metro.

Hazardous Waste can be dropped off at some transfer stations and at Hazardous Wastemobile dropoff sites. Information about hazardous waste disposal options for households and businesses and Wastemobile schedules can be found at King County's Local Hazardous Waste Management Program website.

The City negotiates with a provider for solid waste, recycling and yard waste collection on behalf of the City's residents. Following a 2006 request for bid, a new contract with Allied Waste (formerly Rabanco) calling for increased recycling of plastics numbers 1-7, electronic scrap, plastic bags, and food waste recycling was negotiated. Allied Waste garbage trucks will also have particulate traps, and the City is working on a project to require that the trucks use a mixture of 80% ultra low sulfur fuel and 20% biodiesel.