Your guide to a greener Lake Forest Park
Announcements
Household Hazardous Waste Home Collection
The Home Collection Services helps eligible seniors and residents with disabilities safely dispose of hazardous waste they may have in their homes.
A product is hazardous if the label says: Caution, Warning, Danger or Poison. Household hazardous waste is any waste left over from pesticides, oil-based paints, solvents, batteries, thinners, motor oil, antifreeze, and household cleaners.
These items should never be thrown in the trash or dumped on the ground or poured down a drain. If you are eligible for this program, you can have your household hazardous waste picked up at your home. To find out if you are eligible, call Household Hazards Line at 206 296-4692.
Garbage, Recycling & Yard Waste Instructions
This handy guide was sent to all Lake Forest Park households. It can be downloaded (PDF) by clicking the image at
left. The booklet contains complete instructions for recycling everything from appliances to food scraps.
The City negotiates with a provider for solid waste, recycling and yard waste collection on behalf of the City's residents.
Allied Waste Services is introducing compressed natural gas (CNG) trucks, to the Lake Forest Park service area. CNG has the lowest emissions of all fossil fuels. This will dramatically reduce the carbon footprint and help create a healthier, more sustainable environment. CNG is significantly quieter than diesel and gas-operated vehicles. This will certainly help reduce noise in neighborhoods and reduce noise pollution.
King County has a new Facebook Page on recycling.
www.facebook.com/recyclemore
Recycling food scraps
Residents in Lake Forest Park are able to place food scraps and food soiled paper in their yard waste carts. These items are collected and hauled to local compost facility, Cedar Grove Compost, to be turned into a valuable soil amendment. It only takes 8 weeks for food to break down in their system and to be ready for landscaping.
For more information click here.
Recycling in LFP
Paper
Paper (mail, newspapers, advertising inserts)
Cardboard (no longer than 3 feet x 3 feet)
Food boxes (liner removed)
Shredded paper (placed in a clear plastic bag to keep it contained)
Milk cartons and juice boxes
Plastic (NO plastic cups, lids or items not listed below)
Plastic bottles and jugs (no caps)
Plastic round dairy tubs (no lids)
Plastic shopping bags and newspaper bags (bag in tied plastic bag)
Glass
Glass bottles and jars (no caps or lids)
Metal
Aluminum and steel cans (labels are ok)
Scrap metal (limit 2 feet x 2 feet, 35 pounds)
Click here for the complete guide to waste in LFP
Waste Bins
If you live in a household in Lake Forest Park and have a GREEN outdoor yard waste cart that is picked up by Allied Waste, you can recycle food and scraps with your garden clippings.
Put paper, glass, plastic and cans in the BLUE bin. Not everything can be recycled, the Guide contains a list of what should not go in the bin.
Some residents have GREY bins for their remaining waste items. Others use their own garbage cans. Keeping garbage out of the blue and green bins makes our recycling clean and usable. To learn more, watch a video about where our recycling goes.
As of January, 2009, Washington now has a FREE, convenient and environmentally responsible recycling program
for computers, monitors, laptops and televisions.
Click to go to E-CYCLE Washington
for complete information.