Republic Services of Snohomish, WA
Republic Services of Snohomish, 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.
Snohomish customer service
Residential
425-778-0188
Commercial
425-778-6508
Hours
Monday – Friday, 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Saturday, 8:00 am - 12:00 pm
Holiday schedule
We observe the following holidays:
4th of July
New Year's Day
Thanksgiving Day
Christmas Day
If your collection day falls on the holiday, your collection will be delayed one day. Example: Thur. customers will be picked up Fri., and Fri. customers will be picked up Saturday.
Regional facilities
- Airport Road Recycling & Transfer Station (ARTS) - Everett, WA
- North County Recycling & Transfer Station (NCRTS) - Arlington, WA
- Southwest Recycling & Transfer Station (SWRTS) - Mountlake Terrace, WA
Please visit the
3434 McDougall Avenue
Everett, WA 98201
425-388-6050
- Households: Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday: 8:00 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- Fees for latex paint only
- Businesses: Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday: 8:00 a.m. to 4 p.m. (by appointment only)
- Call for fees
- Call for fees
Closed: New Year's Day, Independence Day, Veteran's Day, Thanksgiving Day, Friday and Saturday following Thanksgiving, and Christmas Day
Spring Sustainability Tips
What does your recycling become? Check out how the materials you put in your bin transform.
Quick tips
What goes where?
How can we help?
Rates
Kid's corner
Download these fun games to add to your recycling knowledge.
Find additional 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 Snohomish, WA.
Dumpsters
Dumpster/Debris boxes, from 10 to 40 yards, are available for household remodeling, landscape projects, site clean-up, or other projects. Rates vary depending upon box size and filled weight.
Please complete the Customer Support form at the bottom of this page or call customer service at:
Residential: 425-778-0188
Commercial: 425-778-6508
Recycling, Yard Waste, Bulk Waste, HHW, Electronics & More
Please do not place household hazardous waste in your garbage, recycling, or organics container. This includes, but is not limited to, products labeled "Danger," "Hazardous,” “Caution,” or "Poison."
Residents and businesses should visit
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 paper
- No tissue
- No paper towels
METAL (empty, clean, and dry)
- Aluminum cans - such as for beverages, soda
- Food cans (clean) - such as cans of soup, tuna, beans, tomatoes, etc.
- Lids 3" or wider in diameter
- Pet food cans (rinsed out)
- Steel cans
- Scrap metal (maximum 2 ft x 2 ft x 2 ft and less than 50 pounds
GLASS (empty, clean, and dry)
- Rinsed and dried, labels are OK
- All colors accepted; place lids and caps in garbage
- Bottles
- Jars
NOTE: Window glass and mirrors are NOT recyclable.
PLASTIC (empty, clean, and dry)
- Plastics - Not all plastics with a number are recyclable – go by shape instead. You can recycle clean, empty and dry plastic bottles, tubs, and jugs.
- Milk and juice jugs
- Sports drinks, water bottles and soda bottles
- Salad dressing bottles (rinsed)
- Shampoo and conditioning bottles
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.
Plastic film recycling locations:
Non-recyclables contaminate recycling loads making it more difficult to turn recyclables into new products. This threatens the sustainability of the entire recycling system.
Some items may also contaminate clean recyclable items (ex. pasta sauce in a dirty jar can soak into clean office paper which is then no longer recyclable).
If our drivers notice a lot of contamination in your recycling we may not be able to service it as recycling and may tag it to have it serviced as trash (in which case you may be charged).
When in doubt...find out or throw it out in the garbage.
Recyclables should always be
Used motor oil and filters may be taken to the Snohomish Household Hazardous Waste Facility:
Everett, WA 98201
Motor oil: 10-gallon limit per customer per day.
Oil filters: Limit 3 per customer per day
Find authorized E-Cycle Washington collection locations and resources:
Fees apply to extra bags of garbage. Extra must weigh less than 50 pounds.
Furniture and oversized items must be self-hauled to Snohomish County transfer stations.
Fluorescent tubes and bulbs contain mercury which is very toxic to human and animal health. Do not put fluorescent tubes or bulbs in your recycling, garbage, or yard waste containers.
Please take your fluorescent tubes and light bulbs to a Snohomish County Recycling and Transfer Stations, or Drop Box sites. Some quantity limits or other restrictions may apply. For more information, visit
You can also visit local businesses and offices that accept fluorescent lights at LightRecycle.org. These collection sites accept up to 10 lights per day at no charge.
- 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.
- See details on how to dry out latex paint to place in your garbage bin here:
Snohomish County Washington
- See details on how to dry out latex paint to place in your garbage bin here:
- Use cat litter or paint hardener to dry out unused paint.
- If you have oil-based paint or solvents, please take them to:
Snohomish County Household Hazardous Waste Drop-off Station
3434 McDougall Avenue
Everett, WA 98201
Tel: 425-388-3425
Hours: 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Wednesday through Saturday
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 lid to close securely.
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.
Medication drop off locations in Snohomish County:
Used cooking oil may be dropped off at:
3434 McDougall Avenue
Everett, WA 98201
Tel: 425-388-3425
Hours: 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Wednesday through Saturday
- Please seal uncontaminated oil (no large solids) in clean, clear, screw-top, plastic jugs.
- 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.
- Please double bag dog waste and other pet waste and place into the garbage.
- Do NOT place it in the organics cart.
Shredded paper must be bagged and placed into the garbage container. Better yet, save your shredding for a free shred event, found on the
- Dirt, rocks and sod are not accepted in the curbside organics program.
Click here to view accepted locations for yard waste, dirt, rock and sod.- Fees apply for extra yard waste per 32-gallon unit. Extra yard waste may be collected in paper bags, 32-gallon cans or boxes 3 ft. x 3 ft. x 3 ft. max.
Services
- Residential: 425-778-0188
- Commercial: 425-778-6508
Minimum 1 week per hold
- 4th of July
- 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
Residential customers are billed every 3 months. Commercial customers receive a bill monthly.
