Everett, WA Trash & Recycling: Pickup Rules & Schedules (2026)
Key Facts
- Schedule
- regular, ongoing collection service
- Container return
- same day if removed to empty
- Spill cleanup
- within 3 business hours
- Missed pickup
- redo within 24 hours requested
- Applies to
- multifamily properties, 5+ units
Summary
Everett's franchised recycling haulers must service multifamily recycling containers on a regular schedule, clean up spills within three business hours, and get a missed pickup redone within 24 hours of notice.
D. Provide Collection Services. Containers will be serviced on a regular schedule. If containers must be removed from a site to be emptied, it is expected they will be returned to the site within the same day or empty containers will be left in their place within the same day. All handling and transportation will be in compliance with all federal, state and local regulations. E. Clean Up and Spillage. ... The city requests that a missed pick-up be collected within twenty-four hours.
Official source re-checked September 8, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: current through Ordinance 4194-26, passed July 29, 2026).
Full Breakdown
EMC 8.14.080 spells out pickup duties for the haulers that service Everett's multifamily recycling program: apartment buildings, condos, and trailer parks with five or more units. Containers must be serviced on a regular schedule, and if a container is hauled off-site to be emptied it has to come back, or be replaced with an empty one, the same day. Any material the crew scatters or spills during collection must be cleaned up within three business hours of notification, and the city asks that a missed pickup be redone within twenty-four hours. This section governs multifamily recycling specifically; it doesn't set citywide single-family garbage pickup days.
Violations & Fines
No fine is written into the chapter; the service provider must designate a representative to resolve missed-pickup and spillage grievances under EMC 8.14.080(F), and the city can require added containers if problems persist.
Frequently Asked Questions
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