Republic Services of Sultan, WA
Republic Services of Sultan, 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.
Customer service
Phone
Hours
Monday – Friday, 7:00 am – 6:00 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.
Regional facilities
3434 McDougall Ave., Everett, WA 98201
Wednesday - Saturday 8:00 a.m. - 4 p.m.
425.388.3425
Spring Sustainability Tips
What does your recycling become? Check out how the materials you put in your bin transform.
Service guide & rates
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
Additional resources
See our FAQs for household hazardous waste, bulk items, medical waste, and other questions.
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 Sultan, 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 call customer service at 425-977-4125.
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," or "Poison".
Sultan 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)
- 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
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.
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 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:
3434 McDougall Avenue
Everett, WA 98201 (Google Maps)
Motor oil: 10-gallon limit per customer per day.
Oil filters: Limit 3 per customer per day
E-Cycle Washington is a free program that makes it easy for Washington residents to recycle their broken, obsolete or worn-out electronics. Electronic products contain valuable materials that can be recycled and toxic chemicals that should be kept out of the landfill.
E-waste locations and resources:
Please take bulky waste to the Snohomish County Sultan Drop Box at 33014 Cascade View Drive.
For hours, fees, acceptable forms of payment, and more details, please visit
No hazardous waste including paint, car batteries, solvents, pesticides, and cleaners. Hazardous waste must be disposed of separately.
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.
- Use cat litter or paint hardener to dry out unused paint.
- If you have oil-based paint or solvents, please visit
Snohomish County Household Hazardous Waste site for more information.
Republic offers simple and convenient
Medical Sharps
Do not dispose of needles, lancets or syringes in your garbage cart. Use an approved sharps container or puncture-proof container.
Find a
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.
Contact the following for guidance:
3434 McDougall Avenue
Everett, WA 98201
Tel: 425-388-3425
Hours: 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Wednesday through Saturday
No, Polystyrene (Styrofoam®) is cannot be recycled in your blue cart.
Styrofoam® must be placed in the garbage. Please break large blocks into pieces smaller than 2’ x 2’ x 2’ to keep them from getting stuck in your garbage cart. Bag all packing peanuts.
Or, you can take Polystyrene (Styrofoam®) to
Animal weighing 10 pounds or less may be placed in your garbage can as long as they are double bagged.
Animals weighing more than 10 pounds need to be taken to a rendering plant, veterinary clinic, animal shelter, pet cemetery, or buried on the owner’s property.
Dog waste and other pet waste must be double-bagged and placed into the garbage container.
Do NOT place it in the Organics container.
Do NOT place it in the Recycling container.
Shredded paper must be bagged and placed into the garbage container. Better yet, save your shredding for a free shred event, found on the Attorney General’s
- Dirt, rocks and sod are not accepted in the curbside organics program.
Pacific Topsoils takes excess yard waste, dirt, rock and sod.
Services
Customer Service Hours: Monday-Friday 7 am-7 pm, Saturday 8 am-4 pm
- 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 will be billed quarterly (every three months).
Business/Commercial customers will receive bills monthly.
