Republic Services of Sammamish, WA
Republic Services of Sammamish, WA is dedicated to handling your recycling and waste needs in a way that is easy, effortless, and environmentally responsible. We work to ensure safe and dependable solutions, and we are a community and business partner you can rely on.
Service Alert
Republic Services is resuming all collection services for residential customers in King and Snohomish counties beginning tomorrow, Monday, July 21. Customers will be serviced on their normal collection day and should leave out all their containers. We appreciate the community’s patience and look forward to resuming regular service.
Per our contract with Sammamish, impacted customers will receive a service credit on their next bill.
Sammamish, WA customer service
Phone
Hours
Monday – Friday, 7:00 am – 7:00 pm
Saturday, 8:00 am - 4:00 pm
Please have carts out by 7:00 a.m. on your collection day.
Holiday schedule
We observe the following holidays:
New Year's Day
Thanksgiving Day
Christmas Day
If your collection day falls on or after that day during the week, your pickup day will shift to the next day. For example, the Thursday collection will move to Friday, the Friday collection will move to Saturday, etc.
Regional facilities
13800 SE 32nd St
Bellevue, WA 98005
Hours: Monday - Friday: 6:30 am – 4:00 pm; Saturday & Sunday: 8:30 am – 5:30 pm
13800 SE 32nd St
Bellevue, WA 98005
Hours: Monday - Friday: 8:00 am – 4:00 pm; Saturday & Sunday: 9:00 am – 5:30 pm
Sustainability Tips
Do you recycle right? Use these tips to make sure you're properly preparing materials to be recycled!
Quick tips
What goes where?
Residential guidelines for recycling, composting, garbage, expanded recycling, household hazardous waste, and additional useful tips.
Rates
How can we help?
Recycling guides
In order to better serve all of our customers, we offer our recycling guidelines in 11 different languages in addition to English. We strive to provide the most accurate and up-to-date information we can to our customers. The posters below offer valuable information about how to recycle right so you can do your part to preserve natural resources for future generations, save landfill space, and stimulate the economy.
Kid's corner
Download these fun games to add to your recycling knowledge.
Find more age-appropriate educational materials at
Trash day maze
Help the truck driver navigate his route to pick up the neighborhood’s trash and recycling. Download
Electronics word search
Our electronics are tangled. Can you help find which electronics are recyclable? Download
Outdoors bingo
Take a walk around your neighborhood with this Bingo sheet. Find four in a row! Download
Visit our Seattle Recycling & Learning Center
The Seattle, WA interactive learning center was designed to educate community groups, students, sustainability leaders, and our governmental partners about recycling. Visitors will experience a first-hand view of the recycling process at our education center through a presentation, educational videos, interactive displays, and various activities tailored to your group.
Plan your Recycling Education Center visit
Private meetings, field trips and educational facility visits
- Submit a visit request for current appointment availability
- Appointments available M-F, 9:30 am to 3:00 pm
- Minimum group size of 3 is required for an appointment
- Learning Center capacity is 49 people
- Minors must be accompanies by an adult
- Due to safety concerns, young children are not allowed in our MRF
Learn about the recycling process
Groups may include:
- School groups
- Government agents
- Clubs
- Sustainable leaders/groups
- And many more!
FAQs
Your answers for waste and recycling services in Sammamish, WA.
Dumpsters
Dumpster/Debris boxes, from 10 to 40 yards, are available for household remodeling, landscape projects, site clean-up or other projects. Rates for vary depending upon box size and filled weight.
Recycling, Yard Waste, Bulk Waste, HHW, Electronics & More
Sammamish residents should visit
Sammamish businesses should visit
Washington State typically applies a mandatory fee to businesses which generate dangerous waste. Businesses can find more information
PAPER (clean and unsoiled)
- single material
- dry (NOT wet)
- larger than a business card (or it will jam up the processing equipment)
- no hardback books
- no metallic
- no tissue
- no paper towels
METAL (empty, clean, and dry)
- Minimum 5" lids and scrap metals smaller than 2 ft x 2 ft x 2 ft
- no other material attached
- No foil
- Push lids into can and squeeze so they don't fall out
- 3” lids, scrap metal (no greasy, rusted or soiled) could be separate bullet
GLASS (empty, clean, and dry)
- Rinsed and dry
- Remove lids and caps and place in garbage
PLASTIC (empty, clean, and dry)
- No plastic bags
- Only shapes of bottle, jug, or tub.
No. Do not place plastic bags in your curbside bins for recycling.
The best way to recycle your plastic bags is to bundle them, clean and dry, in one bag and bring them to a store that collects them for recycling. Visit King County's
Plastic film recycling locations:
- Non-recyclables contaminate recycling loads, the entire load will be sent to a landfill.
- When in doubt...find out or throw it out in the garbage.
- Food contamination and liquids can cause mold and contaminate the entire load.
- Recyclables should always be
Empty. Clean. Dry.™
Recycling Resources for the
Take used motor oil and oil filters to one of the
There is a 50-gallon limit per customer per day; no containers over five gallons in size.
Take used oil to approved
Find authorized E-Cycle Washington collection sites, and members of the Take it Back Network at
Other locations and resources:
Email Republic Services Sammamish or call customer service at 206-777-6441 for special curbside pickup.- Fees will apply per item (see Rates above)
- Consider getting small appliances fixed for free at a
King County repair café .- Visit
King County - Fix it events for more information.
- Visit
- Fees will apply per item (see Rates above) Extra trash must be bagged or in an extra can, labeled “garbage” and placed next to trash cart (not more than 32 gallons). Fees apply.
- Bulky garbage items may be scheduled for a pickup. Fees apply.
Email Republic Services Sammamish or call customer service at 206-777-6441 for special curbside pickup. - No rocks, dirt or concrete and no tree stumps or large tree trunks.
- No hazardous waste including paint, car batteries, solvents, pesticides and cleaners. Hazardous waste must be disposed of separately.
- Consider getting small appliances fixed for free at a King County repair café.
- Mattresses and box springs (up to 6 per customer per day) can also be disposed at any King County Transfer Station, or they can be recycled through programs throughout the area. Visit
King County - What do I do with? for more information. - No rocks, dirt or concrete and no tree stumps or large tree trunks.
- No hazardous waste including paint, car batteries, solvents, pesticides and cleaners. Hazardous waste must be disposed of separately.
Email Republic Services Sammamish or call customer service at 206-777-6441 for special curbside pickup.- Limit: 2 per collection, maximum 10 per year.
- Tubes must be no longer than 4 feet.
- Wrap old bulbs securely in newspaper secured with tape or place bulbs in closed plastic bags and label, “Fluorescent Tubes” (or bulbs).
- You can also find recycling information at
LightRecycle.org
- It is illegal to dispose of liquid paint in your trash.
- Only cans with trace amounts of dry, hardened latex paint can be disposed of in your trash cart.
- Use cat litter or paint hardener to dry out unused paint.
- If you have oil-based paint or solvents, please take them to a
King County Hazardous Waste site .
Republic offers simple and convenient
Medical Sharps
Do not dispose of needles, lancets or syringes in your garbage cart. Use a sharps container or puncture-proof container (like a detergent bottle or 2-liter soda bottle) and tape the lid to close securely.
Drop off container, when full, at the Factoria Recycling & Transfer Station at 13800 SE 32nd St, Bellevue, WA, free of charge.
Additional Sharps resources and information for King County:
Medicine Returns
Unwanted or expired medicines are not accepted for disposal in the trash or at any transfer station, nor should they be disposed of down the drain. Find a safe disposal location
Cannot be dropped off.
Email Republic Services Sammamish or call customer service at 206-777-6441 for special curbside pickup.- Must be in a clear plastic jug (no solids) with cap screwed on and taped. Label jugs with name and address.
- Limit 3 gallons per drop off and 10 gallons per year.
- No. Styrofoam® cannot be recycled in the blue cart.
- Styrofoam® must be bagged and placed in the garbage.
- Other resources:
Styro Recycle
Animal weighing 15 pounds or less may be double bagged and placed in your garbage can.
Animals weighing more than 15 pounds need to be taken to a rendering plant, veterinary clinic, animal shelter, pet cemetery or buried on the owner’s property. You can find more information and options
- Please double bag dog waste and other pet waste and place into the garbage.
- Do NOT place it in the organics cart.
- Find a shred event on the WA Attorney General's website:
Community Shred Events | Washington State - Shredded paper must be bagged and placed in the garbage.
Sammamish residential customers may put out up to 96 gallons of compostable material in the provided cart included in their garbage service. Extras must be in paper bags, cardboard boxes or extra cans and labeled yard waste. No food scraps can be outside of provided cart. Dirt, rocks and sod are not accepted in the curbside organics program. Fees apply for extras.
Services
- Minimum 1 weeks per hold.
- Thanksgiving
- Christmas
- New Year’s Day
If your collection falls on or after that day during the collection week, your pick-up day will shift to the following day, excluding Sundays. (If New Year’s Day falls on Monday, those normally collected on Monday will be collected on Tuesday; Tuesday customers will be collected on Wednesday; Wednesday customers will be collected on Thursday; Thursday customers will be collected on Friday, and Friday customers will be collected on Saturday.)
Billing & Accounts
- Single family customer are billed quarterly (every 3 months).
- Multifamily and commercial customers are billed monthly.
