E-Waste & Styrofoam Collection

Saturday January 7th 10am - 12pm Lynnwood Operation and Maintenance Center 20525 60th AVE W Lynnwood, WA 98036

Do you have styrofoam or electronic waste you need to dispose of? Bring it out to our collection event! All Styrofoam must be clean, with stickers and decals removed. For a list of accepted electronic items, visit our website here.

Christmas Tree Recycling

Every year our local Boy Scout Troop 304 serves the community by picking up and recycling Christmas Tree's. If you receive a hanger on your door, please follow the instructions for pick up. If not, please see the info below for how to drop off your tree. The Scouts take the tree's to ecotreeNW, who chip the tree's so they can be re-used as mulch/bark. We are very thankful for our local troop who performs this community service and keeps recycling in mind! 

188th St SW & 44th Ave W

(Across from the Lynnwood Rec Center)

Saturday, January 07, 2023 | 09:00 AM - 04:00 PM

Sunday, January 08, 2023 | 09:00 AM - 04:00 PM

Pick Up is available if you receive a door hanger notice

Where do I Recycle This?

Last quarter you sent in your questions, here are the answers!

Motor Oil - Up to 10 gallons per customer, per day can be taken to any Snohomish County Recycling Center

Styrofoam - This is very difficult to recycle in our area, which is why we are trying to increase our local collections. Currently the closest location to take styrofoam to is in Kent at Styro-Cycle. Otherwise it needs to go in the garbage can.

Needles - Click here for a website that gives instructions on how and where to safely dispose of needles. This would be for needles you use for medical reasons. They are collected at both Bartell Drug stores in our city. 

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Tips for the Holidays

Holidays are the best time to connect with family and friends, but parties and gift giving often creates extra waste. Learn what you can do to keep your holidays as green as possible.

Giving Gifts

• Think green before you shop the holiday sales. Bring your own reusable cloth bag for carrying your purchases, and try to buy items with minimal packaging and/or made with recycled content.
• Wrap gifts in recycled or reused wrapping paper. Also remember to save or recycle your used wrapping paper. Give gifts that don't require much packaging, such as concert tickets or gift certificates.
• Send recycled-content greeting cards and remember to recycle any paper cards you receive. You can also try sending electronic greeting cards to reduce paper waste.
• Bake cookies or other goodies and package them in reusable and/or recyclable containers as gifts. Homemade goodies show how much you care and help you avoid packaging waste.
• When gifting flowers, consider buying long-lasting silk flowers, potted plants, or live bushes, shrubs, or trees that can be planted in the spring as gifts.

Green Parties and Events

• If you host a party, set the table with cloth napkins and reusable dishes, glasses, and silverware. Also save and reuse party hats, decorations, and favors.
• Be sure your guests know where to properly dispose of and recycle their wastes at your party.
• After holiday festivities, put leftovers in recyclable containers, and share them with family, friends, or others. Donate untouched leftovers from parties to a local food bank or homeless shelter.
• After parties, fill your dishwasher up completely before running it. You will run fewer cycles, which saves energy.

Provided by the EPA at https://www.epa.gov/recycle/reducing-waste-what-you-can-do

Beyond the Curb

Tips for Home

The best place to start making a difference is right in your own home. Learn how you can reduce, reuse, and recycle materials to decrease household waste. The tips below will help you get started.

Lawn and Garden

• Learn to compost at home. Use food scraps, yard trimmings, and other organic wastes to create a compost pile. Adding the compost you make to soil increases water retention, decreases erosion, and keeps organic materials out of landfills. 
• Raise the cutting height of your lawnmower during hot summer months to keep grass roots shaded and cooler, reducing weed growth, browning, and the need for watering.
• If you need large lawn and garden equipment such as tillers and chainsaws, you can reduce waste (and save money) by setting up a sharing program with your neighbors.
• When you mow, “grasscycle” by leaving grass clippings on your lawn instead of bagging then. The clippings will return nutrients to the soil instead of taking up space in landfills.
• Donate healthy plants that you want to replace to community gardens, parks and schools.
• If you have a wood burning fireplace, save your ashes instead of throwing them away. Once cooled, wood ashes can be mixed into your compost heap and provide nutrients to your garden.

Home Improvement

• Use insulation made from recycled paper, glass, and other recovered materials.
• Clean and properly store tools, toys and outdoor furniture to protect them from damage and keep them out of landfills.
• Turn off or unplug lights during the day. Doing so will save energy and help your lights last longer.
• Storms can cause power outages. Prevent waste by keeping rechargeable batteries for your flashlights. If you do use disposable batteries, reduce hazardous waste by buying ones with low mercury content.

Moving & Cleaning

• Have a yard sale to find homes for clothes, toys, appliances, and books that you no longer need.
• When moving, use old newspapers to wrap fragile materials.
• Use moving boxes with the highest content of recycled paper and bubble wrap containing recycled plastic. Be sure to recycle packaging materials after your move. Many organizations, such as U-Haul, have places where you can drop of unused boxes for others to reuse.
• Be sure to properly dispose of any non-recyclable items that you won’t be taking with you. Look for household hazardous waste collection days in your community to properly dispose of cleaners, paints, automotive supplies and other hazardous items.
• For cleaning chores, buy reusable mops, rags and sponges. When using cleaning products, use only the amount you need and follow the bottle’s directions for use and disposal.

Provided by the EPA at https://www.epa.gov/recycle/reducing-waste-what-you-can-do

New Year, New Giveaways!

If you find yourself at City Hall, be sure to grab one of our reusable tote bags to take along with you on any shopping trips.  At every drive thru collection event in 2023 we will be handing out re-usable car garbage bags. Get excited for our Earth Day Event where we will be handing out small kitchen compost bins!

Looking at you!

Do you have any ideas or suggestions about how to make this newsletter better? Are you involved in or know of any recycling events in our area? Please send an email to pwrequest@lynnwoodwa.gov and reference the Recycling Newsletter.

The city of Lynnwood's recycling education program, including this newsletter, is funded in part by the Washington State Department of Ecology.