Like every other household in Renton, our home has been experimenting to get a good recycling arrangement. We’ve settled on two 10 gallon cans in our kitchen, along with a 30 gallon garbage can.
We find that we need to empty the compost most frequently, usually to avoid getting any smell. It is typically 3/4 full when it goes out to [...]
Posts tagged garbage and recycling
We finally got our recycling adjustme...
Like every other household in Renton, our home has been experimenting to get a good recycling arrangement. We’ve settled on two 10 gallon cans in our kitchen, along with a 30 gallon garbage can.
We find that we need to empty the compost most frequently, usually to avoid getting any smell. It is typically 3/4 full when it goes out to [...]
No caps or lids…
ALL CAPS AND LIDS BELONG IN THE GARBAGE.
I looked into this. Here is the statement from Waste Management:
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Caps and lids are not made from recyclable material. Please put them in the garbage.
Caps and lids contaminate other recyclables, including bales of plastic and paper and loads of glass. Manufacturers who want [...]
My wife gave chase to a blue recyclin...
Cathy tells me she was sitting on our couch when she heard our neighbors freshly-emptied recycling bin taking itself for a drive down the street in front of our house today. The wind propelled the wheeled bin onto the hill on Harrington Place, through the intersection with NE 23rd, down the next block, and across NE 23rd Place before it came [...]
Garbage collection schedules; yard wa...
I received a great suggestion from a Renton citizen to post the links to the garbage collection schedules:
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To: Randy Corman
Subject: Garbage pickup
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 20:17:49 -0800
Randy, you might want to put some information on the bi-weekly garbage pickup on
your blog page.
About 1/2 of my neighbor hav [...]
Yay! Garbage service back in full fo...
We were notified by our hauler, waste management, that they expect to catch up on garbage collection this week. So put your garbage out on your regular day, including the garbage saved from the weeks the haulers missed.
Click Here to read Waste Management’s email to the City on this topic
The City is working on a new garbage ...
For seven blissful years we’ve enjoyed having steady garbage pick-up rates, and one of the lowest rates in the Seattle area. (See the rate chart below)
Unfortunately, our nice deal with Waste Management is expiring, and garbage haulers are pushing on us hard to get the rates back up to market levels.
Renton has responded by looking at [...]
When I was a kid, she told me to take...
…now that I’m an adult, she tells me how I should run the municipal garbage program.
Seriously, my sweet Mom lives in a pretty, newer house in Livermore California; she was recently asked to begin putting food waste in her yard waste container. She read my blog on the subject of our Renton collection pilot program, and had some [...]
Link to Renton City Collection Progra...
Here is the link to the garbage collection pilot program, along with my continuing encouragement that the mayor’s office add this link to our city home page.
You can see from the maps whether you are affected by this pilot program or not (You also would have been advised by mail, and you will recieve new garbage cans if you are affected [...]
Followup on garbage collection pilot ...
I have been recieving more inquiries about the garbage pilot program, so I have let staff know that I wish to hear more about this at the Monday Council meeting (7:00 PM, Monday Aug 6, 7th Floor, Renton City Hall; also can be viewed via live telecast on cable channel 21 or on the internet at www.rentonwa.gov).
I have a few questions…an [...]
Proposed garbage pilot program raisin...
Citizens needed more information and involvment before the mayor launched this garbage pilot program….and a briefing to the council would have been very nice and appropriate as well.
I am not keen on the idea of garbage collection every two weeks…I think that is asking for trouble from pests and odors. Also, the idea of large hou [...]