City of Anacortes Single-Family Recycling Collection Services
The City of Anacortes contracts with Rabanco for the curbside collection of single-family residential recycling. The more you recycle, the less garbage you produce.
Start, Stop, Change Service
- Recycling service is required for City of Anacortes residents.
- Recycling Service is available for a monthly fee. To sign up, complete the online form or call 800-942-5965.
- To stop or change service, call Rabanco at 800-942-5965.
Find Your Collection Day
- Recycling is collected once a week. (See Map)
Prepare Your Recycling
- Use the standard 64-gallon Green Recycling Cart or for a smaller cart from Rabanco call 800-942-5965.
- Review the list of What Goes in the Recycling Cart?
- Place your Green Recycling Cart out by 6 AM on your scheduled collection day. Put carts within 5' of the curb with lid opening toward the street.
- Place excess recyclables in a paper bag or box clearly marked "Recycling" near the Recycling Cart. There is no charge for extra recyclables!
- Remove carts from the curb within 24 hours after collection.
! Contamination, such as one ceramic cup mixed in with recyclable glass, can ruin the whole batch and damage processing equipment. Make sure only recyclable items are put into the Recycling Cart. This will result in less items being disposed of as garbage and more items being manufactured into new products. When the wrong items are put in the recycling cart, a written notice will be placed on our container explaining the contamination. Please review recycling guidelines or call 800-942-5965 for assistance.
Additional Recycling
- Haul Recyclables to the Transfer Station (the Dump)
- Recyclable items can be hauled for recycling to the local transfer station operated by Skagit County Solid Waste Division:
- Skagit County Recycling & Transfer Station, 14104 Ovenell Road, Mt. Vernon, WA
- Call 360-424-9532 for operating hours and directions.
- Where to Recycle Unusual Items
- Have an unusual item and wonder if it can be recycled? Visit one of these websites:
Why Recycle?
- Recycling makes economic sense! It's less expensive to recycle materials than to bury them in a landfill or burn them in an incinerator. If everything went into the garbage, garbage rates would be much higher.
- Recyclables are taken to Rabanco's Recycling Processing Facility in Seattle. Recyclables are sorted, baled and sent to recycling mills, where they are made into new products.
- Recyclables can be made into new products:
- Plastic bottles become new fleece clothing and carpeting.
- Cardboard becomes new cardboard.
- Tin cans become new rebar for construction projects.
- Newspaper becomes fruit packing trays and new paper.
- Glass becomes new glass bottles and jars.
- Aluminum cans become new aluminum cans.
- Recycling conserves natural resources and saves energy! Every ton of recycled paper saves trees, electricity and water, resulting in less air and water pollution than manufacturing a ton of paper from virgin wood pulp.
Preventing Waste is Even Better Than Recycling!
Before you buy, use or discard an item, ask yourself:
- Can I buy this with less packaging?
- Can I buy this made with recycled content?
- Can I use this again?
- Can I recycle this after I use it?
You can reduce waste by Reusing, Recycling and Buying Recycled.
