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Waste Management

Residential Garbage & Recycling Services

(Single-family dwellings with 1-2 units)

Solid Waste & Recycling Service Providers Map (PDF) (Olive green & orange shaded areas)

Waste management Garbage Collection

Set up

If you live within the City of Auburn’s Waste Management garbage service area, you are required to have City garbage service. Collection and disposal of all solid waste by the City of Auburn or it agent is compulsory for each occupied unit. Contact the City Utilities department for garbage service set up at 253-931-3038.

Garbage rates

Solid Waste Rates vary depending on your garbage container size. The smaller your garbage container, the less you pay. Many different garbage container sizes are available for your individual needs, and sizes range from 10-gallon micro-cans to 96-gallon carts. The City provides all garbage containers, except the 30-32 gallon size. To ensure the safety of the garbage truck drivers, 45-gallon containers are not acceptable, and will be charged as an oversized can. Also, please limit 32-gallon container weight to 65 pounds.

Extra Garbage Pickups and Charges: If the amount of garbage you generate exceeds your current service, consider increasing your service level. Garbage collected in excess of your current monthly service level (as listed on your account) is charged at a rate of $9.42 per container (or 32-gallon equivalent) per pick-up. Special pickups of 60-gallon through 8 cubic yard containers will be charged according to container size. Extra charges and special pickups are costly...having the correct service level will save you money.

Pickup schedule

Garbage is picked up one time per week. See the Solid Waste Collection Days Map for your pickup day. Garbage containers must be set out for collection by 6:00 a.m. on collection day.

Waste management garbage links

Waste Management Recycling Collection

Set up

When you sign up for Waste Management garbage service, the City will provide at no cost, a 64-gallon recycling cart. Along with your recycling cart, you will receive recycling guidelines and a collection calendar. All recyclables go into one container. A 96-gallon cart is available upon request.

Materials accepted

Includes paper, cardboard, aluminum, tin, plastic, glass, and scrap metal. For a complete material listing: English Recycling Guidelines, Spanish Recycling Guidelines, Korean Recycling Guidelines, Russian Recycling Guidelines or Chinese Recycling Guidelines. Motor oil is also accepted for curbside collection.

Extra recycling pickups

There is no charge for curbside recycling, and you may recycle as much paper, cardboard, aluminum, tin, plastic and glass as you like from your own household and up to 2-gallons of your used motor oil every two weeks. If you have extra recycling that will not fit into your regular recycling container, please put the materials in cardboard boxes (limit 3” x 3” x 3”) or paper bags marked “Recycling”.

If you need more space for your recyclables, you may request a larger cart by contacting Waste Management at 1-800-592-9995 or www.wmnorthwest.com/auburn/residential.html.

Pickup schedule

Curbside recycling is collected every other week on your garbage day. You will either be Week 1 or Week 2 for pick-up, depending on your location (See Recycling Collection Schedule and Recycling Collection Map ). Your recycling will be picked up where your garbage is picked up, either at your curbside or in your alley. Recycling containers must be set out for collection by 6:00 a.m. on collection day.

Waste Management recycling links

Recycling collection map (PDF)

Recycling collection schedule (PDF)

Motor oil collection

Waste Management recycling (Offsite)

Waste Management curbside yard and Food waste collection

City Code #8.08.120 prohibits yard waste from being mixed with garbage. Garbage containers containing yard waste and garbage mixed together will not be picked up on collection day.

Set up

Yard waste service is available on a subscription basis. When you sign up for Waste Management yard waste service the City supplies a 96-gallon yard waste cart at a cost of $7.45 per month. To set up service call Utilities Customer Service at 253-931-3038.

Materials accepted

Includes organic material from your yard, (leaves, grass, and branches under 4 inches in diameter by 4 feet long), food scraps and food-soiled paper, and shredded paper (in paper bag). No sod, dirt, rocks, concrete or lumber.

Yard and Food Waste Recycling Guidelines

Food Waste Kitchen Container

A FREE kitchen food scrap container is available at the Utility / Finance counter at City Hall, 25 W Main Street. LIMITED to ONE container per residence.

Food Waste Recycling Information

Extra yard waste pickups

Extra yard debris may be put in your own containers (32-gallon, 65 lb. limit), heavy paper bags, or bundles (4' by 2' limit). Label them "yard debris" and put them next to the gray yard debris cart at least three feet from your garbage. No plastic bags, please. There is an additional charge for each extra unit of yard debris. An extra 32-gallon debris can/bag is $2.41 each and an extra 96-gallon cart is $3.84 each.

Pickup schedule

Collection is weekly April through November, and every other week December through March. When you sign up for service you will receive a Recycling Schedule (PDF) calendar to help you remember your pickup dates. Residential yard waste collection is on the same day as garbage collection.

Waste Management Yard Waste Links

Recycling Collection Schedule (PDF)

Waste Management Yard and Food Debris Recycling (Offsite)

Waste Management bulky item collection

Bulky Items can be picked up by special arrangement for a fee. Fees will vary. Call the City Utilities department at 253-931-3038 to make arrangements.

Waste Management Weather delays

If weather conditions prevent safe collection, a double load of garbage and recycling will be collected at no extra charge on your next regular collection day.

All-In-One Recycling!

No more sorting! Waste Management customers can put their bottles and cans in the same container as their paper and cardboard.