Recycling Facility

Location: 315 Sterling Street Recycling Facility Hours: Monday - Friday, 7 AM - 2 PM Saturdays are seasonal; Opens the first Saturday in March and closes the first Saturday in November Closed all Holidays

Curbside Recycling is now provided by the City Solid Waste Division. Here are a few resources that will help explain this service: Garbage and Recycling Collection Schedule Frequently Asked Questions about the Curbside Food and Yard Waste Program Curbside Recycling and Food/Yard Waste Flyer (Reciclaje en la Acera y Residuos de Comida/Jardín) - Your one-stop guide to what you can recycle and how to do it

Free Service to Opt-Out for Delivery of Phonebooks, Catalogs and other Unwanted Mail at www.catalogchoice.org

The Washington Department of Ecology invites you to join their Facebook page for the 1-800-RECYCLE Hotline! Please visit their page, “like” them, and “share” it with your Facebook friends. You'll find Green Tips on Tuesday, Shout Outs on Mondays, Throwback Thursdays, Trivia on Friday, and other interesting recycling information. Check out the 1-800-RECYCLE Hotline Facebook page to: Post recycling questions and receive answers Locate recycling facilities and events Learn ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle Share innovative recycling ideas If you know of a useful recycling website, facility, or special collection event that we don’t have listed, please share it on their Facebook page. They want to learn from you, too!

The Recycling that we Accept for Free at our at our city recycling center:

Newspaper, cardboard, mixed paper, aluminum, metal, glass all colors, and tin cans, motor oil, vehicle batteries, household batteries and old printing cartridges from your printer. We also accept packaging materials: Styrofoam peanuts and bubble wrap. When recycling appliances and tires at our site you will have to pay a fee, please call ahead for price of disposal.

Electronic Waste:
Light Bulbs/Tubes:

The City Recycling Center is now an Authorized Collection Site for Compact Fluorescent Lights (CFL), High Intensity Discharge (HID) lamps and Fluorescent Tubes.

Related Documents and resources:

• Washington Statewide Plastic Bag Ban (RCW 70A.530) Updates
  • With input and feedback from stakeholders statewide, Ecology published a downloadable and customizable toolkit of outreach materials for business owners and the public to understand the most critical elements of the statewide bag ban. This toolkit is available on the Ecology Bag Ban Webpage and will be translated into 23 different languages in the next few months.
  • Ecology is aware of potential issues with paper and plastic bag supply that may impact the ability of some businesses to comply with the ban, the ban is still scheduled to go into effect beginning January 1, 2021. As such, we are encouraging local governments and businesses to move forward with all planned outreach efforts to help businesses understand the details of the ban should the new law not be delayed.
• Event Recycling Brochure

Related links:

• Skagit County Public Works and Solid Waste
• https://skagitriversteel.com
• http://www.1800recycle.wa.gov
• Recycle Right Washington Website:
• English -- https://ecology.wa.gov/recycleright
• Spanish -- https://ecology.wa.gov/reciclabien
• Blog -- Recycle Right: How empty is empty enough? How clean is clean enough? How dry is dry enough?
• http://www.nwcleanair.org
• http://www.rbrc.org
• http://www.nwagplastics.com
• http://www.2good2toss.com
• http://www.epa.gov/composting
• http://www.compostingcouncil.org
• http://www.cedar-grove.com
• Crayons Recycling: http://crazycrayons.com/recycle_program.html
• Christmas Light Recycling: https://www.holidayleds.com/christmas-light-recycling-program.aspx
• Best Management Practices: Commingled Residential Recycling

Recycling Projects:

CONCRETE AND ASPHALT RECYCLING

Crushing the Concrete and Ashalt
Using the Concrete and Asphalt at the City Hall Project