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Upcoming Events

King County Residential Recycle Event - June 10, 2023

Spring Cleaning time! Bring your the following items for recycle: broken concrete, asphalt, rock, brick, toilets/sinks, bulky wood waste, confidential paper shredding, mattress/box spring, refrigerator, freezer, small air conditioner, scrap metal, polystyrene blocks, packing peanuts, and tires. PLEASE View the flyer (PDF) for location, hours, guidelines and fees.


Community Yard Sale, June 9-11, 2023

Reduce and reuse your usable items by having a yard sale at your home or business. The sale will be promoted in the Auburn Reporter (print ads and digital ads), Auburn Magazine, City website and social media, and WM website. 

Online Registration: CLOSED May 15, 2023.

Sale Addresses & Map: 

Pickup at the Utility Customer Service Center (1 East Main Street, 2nd floor)

  • Online map - Click on location (blue star). The address, dates of sale and items for sale will display.
  • List of Addresses (PDF) - including dates of sale & items for sale.
  • Map (PDF) - General location of addresses, 8-1/2" x 11" (PDF).

Yard Sale Tool Kit:

Yard Sale Survey:  After your sale, please take the "brief" Yard Sale Survey. This event is grant funded and we need your input on the event. Thank you in advance!


Waste Management Virtual Recycling Center Tours

Waste Management Cascade Recycling Center (CRC) offers FREE virtual recycling center tours every last Friday of each month from 12:00-1:00 PM. The WM single stream sorting system allows residents and businesses to combine all of their recyclables in one container. To check out the how materials are processed sign up online for the 1-hour tour


Bulky Item Collection

Waste Management Auburn residential garbage customers can receive FREE bulky item collection once per year. Call 253-939-9792 to schedule a pick-up of up to four bulky items. Collection must be scheduled in advance and will occur on your regular garbage day. 

View the WM website under Annual Bulk Item Curbside Pickup for program details and accepted items.

Recogida de artículos a granel en la acera (PDF) (Español)


King County Repair Events

The King County EcoConsumer public outreach program has launched repair groups and events in King County, where people can bring small household items and clothing. Our experienced all-purpose fixers and sewing fixers will work on them, and can help you learn repair too.

Each repair event or group will operate differently, based on the needs of the local community. They might meet only once or twice, or continue meeting every two or three months.

For more information, visit the King County EcoConsumer webpage.  


South King County Tool Library

Tool libraries directly reduce unnecessary consumption. Instead of buying a tool that you use perhaps once a year - such as a pressure washer, table saw or posthole digger - you borrow it!

The South King Tool Library provides equal access to tools and training in order to help maintain neighborhoods, build community and reduce unnecessary consumption. We welcome new members, volunteers and donations. A tool library operates much like a traditional library, allowing borrowers to check out tools and equipment to care for their homes, yards, gardens and more.

Visit South King County Tool Library or Facebook for more information.  


Recycle your used cooking oils & fats for FREE!

Auburn residents can participate in a waste-to-energy program that recycles their used fryer and cooking oil into low carbon biodiesel - and its FREE! Last year the City of Auburn partnered with Mahoney Environmental to provide residents with a safe, environmentally-friendly way to dispose of used cooking oil and grease. In 2015, 715 gallons of used cooking oil was collected!

If you're like many others, you've probably wondered what to do with your leftover cooking oil. Does it go in the garbage? No. Recycling? No. Yard/food waste? Nope! And it definitely should not go down kitchen drains as this leads to clogs and costly maintenance for homeowners.

Where do you take your oil? The drop-off station (open 24/7) is located at Les Gove Park, 910 9th ST SE, Auburn - just south of the water spray playground. Look for the cooking oil banner hanging on the fence and the black collection tank marked MAHONEY ENVIRONMENTAL. Be sure to take your transport containers with you and leave nothing behind (except your cooking oil in the tank!), so we can continue to offer this service for FREE to our residents. There are no restrictions on the amount you can bring to recycle.

Tips for transporting used cooking oil:

Please store your cool, used cooking oil in a clear, plastic jug with a secure lid and that is easy to pour from into the large collection container. Only used cooking oil will be accepted at the collection containers. Residential customers only. No commercial cooking oil please.

For more information on how to recycle other liquids, like paint and motor oil, please visit: www.kingcounty.gov/whatdoIdowith.


QUESTIONS?

Call the City of Auburn Utilities Department at 253-931-3038 or email [email protected]