Solid Waste & Recycling Division Recycling Review RECYCLING INFORMATION FOR FEDERAL WAY MULTI-FAMILY RESIDENTS AUGUST 2014 How Does Your Complex Measure Up? WHAT’S INSIDE How “Safe” Are Your Gold: 50+% Cleaners & Cosmetics? These complexes have at least a Recycling Open at Bow 50% recycling capacity, meaning Lake Transfer Station half of all the material that leaves their Recycling property is being recycled. Great job! Superstars! Getting Rid of Stuff? • Belmor Park • Parkwood Lane MHP These complexes do Free Recycling: • Camelot Square • Portofino Apartments a good job recycling Mattresses and they also • Cedar Creek MHP • Quail Run • Charwood MHP • Quiet Forest II & III Microwaves compost food scraps. • Colonial Forest Condos • Regency Ridge Condos Styrofoam Amazing job! • Crestwood MHP • Shady Tree Condos And More! • Cove East • Fairway 7 Terrace • Smoketree Condos • Evergreen Court Condos • Southridge House Sign Up to Be a Apartments • Garden Townhomes • Trellis Apartments Recycling Ambassador • Kings Court • Greencrest Villa • Twin Lakes Colonial Apartments • The Lake Apartments Townhouses Recycling Guide • Village Green • Laurelwood Valley MHP Retirement Campus • Parkwood Apartments —Continued on page 2— No Plastic Bags in Recycling Don’t put plastic bags in your recycling container! Yes, you read that correctly. Please do not put any plastic bags in your recycling container—even bags used to store and carry recyclables out. Your recycling goes to a facility that uses machinery to separate materials. Plastic bags clog the sorting machines the same way a string gets wrapped around your vacuum cleaner brush, but on a much FREE Tote Bags larger scale. At least twice a day, the entire facility stops running, and the plastic bags have to be cut out of the screens by hand. for Recycling Plastic bags should be reused for a variety of purposes – garbage, Contact your property manager pet waste and more. You can also “bag the bags” and recycle them at or the City of Federal Way grocery stores along with bread bags, newspaper bags, dry cleaning Recycling at 253.835.2771 or bags and plastic wrap from paper products such as paper towels. [email protected] Reduce waste in the first place! To generate less plastic bags, simply for your free tote bag to store take reusable bags to the store. If you often forget these, ask your and carry out your recycling. children to remind you or write a reminder on your shopping list. How Does Your Complex Measure Up? Continued from page 1 Silver: 30–50% These complexes are doing a great job of putting most of their recyclables in the recycling container. Good job! • Arcadia Rental Townhomes • Jonathon House • Soundview • Blue Ridge • Kollars South • Brookhaven Apartments • La Dolce Vita Apartments • Soundview • Campus Green Phase II • Lake Village Apartments Terrace • Campus View Apartments • Latitude Condos • South Garden • Cascade Ridge • Laurel Hill Condominiums Court Condos • Cedardale Apartments • Madera West Condos • Steel Lake Plaza • Celebration Park Apartments • Madrona Park Apartments • Tartan Arms • Fircrest • Mitchell Place • The Shores Apartments • Forest Lane Townhouses • Mountain Sun Apartments • Timber Grove Condos • Grace J Apartments • Panther Lake Apartments • Trinidad South Condos • Greystone Meadows Apartments • Parkway Apartments • Twin Cedars Apartments • Hearthstone Condos • Redondo View • Vantage Point at Redondo • Hidden Woods Condos • Redondo Vista • View at The Lake • Highline MHP • Senior City • Waverly Apartments • Hui O Hana Apartments • Silver Shadow Apartments • Westboro Apartments Bronze: 15–30% These complexes have a pretty good start to recycling, but there is opportunity to divert more material into the recycling. • Arrowwood • La Madera Apartments • Tall Firs Condos • Azalea Gardens • Lake Easter Estates • The Commons Apartments • Barkley Ridge • Lakeside Village Condos • The Cove Apartments • Bayview Apartments • Laurelwood Garden Apartments • The Reserve • Bellridge Condos • Liberty Lake Condos • The Ridge Apartments • Campus Green Phase II • Lodge at Peasley Canyon • Treepointe Apartments • Campus Landing Apartments • Mariposa • Twin Lakes Apartments • Chelsea Court • Meridian Court I & II • View at Redondo • Club Palisades • Northview Terrace • Villa Capri • Crestview West Apartments • Park at Dash Point • Village at 330th Condos • Crosspointe • Pinewood Village • Village at Redondo Condos • Eighteenth South • Providence Landing • Waterbury Park Apartments • Firetree East • Rainier Continental • Westboro Condos • Forest Cove Apartments • Rainier Meadows • West Green Condos • Fox Run Apartments • SeaTac Village Apartments • Westhill Pointe Apartments • Glen Park at West Campus • Soundview Apartments • Whispering Firs • Habitat Condos • Southwynd • Woodside • Heritage Condos • Sunrise at West Campus Honorable Mention: <15% NO RECYCLING These complexes have some dedicated recyclers on-site and These complexes do NOT can easily expand for more residents to recycle. have any recycling on-site. • Arbor Woods Apartments • Riverstone • Firetree Ten • Brightwater Apartments • The Retreat at Maple Hill • Greystone Apartments • Cedar Gardens Apartments Apartments • Overlook Condos • Crystal Pointe Apartments • WestHampton Apartments • Forest Lake Apartments • West Pointe Apartments • Maplewood Condos • Willamette Court The cost for recycling is included with garbage, so there is no additional cost to add recycling. Also, the City supplies educational materials and assistance setting up or expanding the recycling program for free. If you would like to see your complex do a better job of recycling, please contact your property manager and the City of Federal Way Recycling at 253.835.2771 or [email protected]. Note that these measurements are based upon Waste Management container sizes, not the actual volume or weight of material contained. Nor does it include bulky materials, landscaping debris or other materials hauled away by a company other than Waste Management. How “Safe” Are Your Cleaners Just Because It & Cosmetics? has a Recycling Use the consumer guides at ewg.org to get the scoop on how safe your personal care products and Symbol, cleaning products are. You can look up over 80,000 personal care products such as sunscreen, lotion, Doesn’t Mean deodorant and shampoo to see if they have a low, moderate or high health hazard rating. Each of It’s Recyclable! the 2,000 cleaning products evaluated is graded A Those “triangle & through F based on the potential health hazards number” symbols in the ingredients. printed on many If you decide to switch to less hazardous cleaners, plastics are not please use up your existing product or drop it off at technically Recycling Symbol the Auburn Hazardous Wastemobile at the Auburn recycling SuperMall / The Outlet Collection at 1101 Outlet symbols. Instead, Collection Way (outside loading dock between Sports these are the Authority and Nordstrom Rack), Saturdays and 1–7 “resin identification Sundays, 10 AM-5 PM. More information can be found at lhwmp.org or by calling 1.888.ToxicEd (869.4233). codes” that tell Plastic Resin which primary Identification plastic resin Code makes up that Keep Dumpster Lids Shut product. There are many different types of plastics, each While it may seem courteous to leave dumpster with unique recipes, which lids open for the next person, please shut them may or may not be recycled after each use. It is important for multiple together. Just to set the record reasons: straight: the triangle and • Prevents birds, squirrels and other animals number does NOT indicate if from entering the container. the plastic item is recyclable • Reduces mess by keeping trash from spilling here in Federal Way, nor how out and wind from blowing it out. many times it was already recycled. The number has no • Keeps rain water out. Wet paper is hard to other meaning aside from separate from other recyclables. identifying the primary resin • It’s the law! City code requires non-leaky garbage containers with a in the plastic. tight-fitting cover for the above reasons. So, how do you know if a If you notice your dumpster needs to be repaired or replaced, please plastic item is recyclable? have your property manager contact Waste Management. Look at the shape: recycle your bottles, jugs and tubs. Most of these items are made from similar plastics and can Food: Too Good to Waste be recycled together. Also, Did you know the average American family tosses the plastic bottle and tub out approximately 25 percent of the food they shape allows them to be purchase, adding up to more than $1,600 a year? sorted properly at the Food is wasted when we buy more than we need, recycling facility. store it incorrectly, throw away leftovers or cook Watch a video of the recycling too much. Wasting less food is an easy way to trim facility: wmnorthwest.com/ your grocery bills and reduce your environmental crcvideo footprint. For tips on reducing wasted food at home, visit recyclefood.com. FREE RECYCLING!!! Free Mattress Drop Off at Free Battery Recycling Events Recycling The City of Federal Way hosts free All types of batteries can now Recycling Event recycling events every April and be recycled on weekends at The September for residents to drop off a Outlet Collection (formally known Sat, Sept 20 wide range of materials not typically as The Auburn SuperMall) located 9 AM–3 PM collected at the curb such as mattresses, at 1101 Outlet Collection Way in Wild Waves Parking Lot bicycles, tires, electronics and fluorescent