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Republic Services customers in King County and Snohomish County received welcomed news on Sunday as the company announced ...
Trash pickup for customers in both King and Snohomish County has resumed, starting Monday, Republic Services confirmed in a ...
Garbage is piling up in neighborhoods across King and Snohomish counties while a stinky dispute unfolds between waste ...
With no end in sight for the Republic Services garbage worker strike to end, more free drop-off locations are being organized ...
A weeks-long strike of Republic Services workers in Thurston County may soon come to an end as trash collection resumes in ...
Teamsters are picketing in Lacey as part of a multi-state strike against the country's largest sanitation company.
When trash is discarded and thrown away in King County, the item eventually makes its way to the Cedar Hills Landfill, where 2,400 tons of daily garbage -- or 800,000 tons a year -- is dumped. The ...
It turns out, as Q13 reports, King County is conducting a study of its trash customers to find out how likely people are to put their food waste into the trash can, instead of into the yard-waste ...
SEATTLE — A proposal to incinerate garbage instead of exporting it by rail would save King County between $4.3 billion and $7.2 billion over 50 years, according to a report prepared in September.
Chalk up a win for the environment and a loss for the crows of Renton. In a King County competition to reduce waste, six families eliminated close to 100 pounds of trash over four weeks. The ...
Garbage removal costs could rise significantly over the coming years, both for curbside pickup and at transfer stations, as King County’s Solid Waste Management Division (SWD) undertakes several ...
King County has only one active landfill, where the rubbish produced by more than 1.4 million people is hauled, dumped, compacted and layered into a trash mountain lorded over by a fleet of semi ...