City Departments
Conservation and Recycling
City Services and Programs
- City Resident Recycling Services - if you are a Seattle resident, recycling service to your house or apartment is free
- Commercial Recycling - provides free recycling assistance to all Seattle businesses
- Community Power Works for Home – provides assistance, incentives, and financing for home energy upgrades throughout Seattle.
- Compost Food and Yard Waste - how to get started and how to use compost
- Homewise - offers free weatherization and low-interest loans for needed home repairs
- Reduce, Reuse and Recycle Computer Waste - surplus computers and monitors can be recycled or refurbished and provided to a family or service organization in need of technology
- Seattle City Light Conservation
- Yard and Food Waste Collection - collections, containers and procedures
Conservation Guides
- Green Building Remodeling Guide
- Green Building Resources - extend the life of roofing materials by blocking ultraviolet radiation and moderating temperature extremes
- Natural Lawn and Garden Care - creates healthy lawns that are easy on the environment
- Restore Our Water - working to restore and enhance shorelines, control storm water flows that destroy habitat, and support citizens who are working in their own neighborhoods
- SeaGreen Affordable Housing Guide - conservation, savings and sustainable building in multifamily housing
City Practices and Policies
- City Purchasing
- Seattle Parks and Recreation
- Best Management Practices - for landscape maintenance, horticulture, and urban forestry
- Reduction Programs - 14 Seattle parks are pesticide-free, with plans to expand to 22 parks
- Resource Conservation Programs - addressing environmental performance and stewardship issues in landscape, horticulture and urban forestry operations in Seattle parks
- Saving the Chinook Salmon - as steward to more than 10 percent of the city’s total land area, Seattle Parks and Recreation plays a significant role in protecting and preserving salmon habitat.
- Urban Wildlife and Management Habitat Plan - integrating natural and human systems in Seattle's park sand open spaces
- Water Shortage Contingency Plan - acting early to help avoid a drought in the Pacific Northwest
- Seattle Public Utilities Habitat Conservation Plan - addressing the declining populations of salmon, steelhead and other species of fish and wildlife in the Cedar River basin
- Urban Forestry Management Plan - the City of Seattle’s first ever comprehensive plan for the future of Seattle's urban forest
Regional Programs and Companies
- Resource Venture - green business solutions
- Saving Water Partnership - Seattle and participating local water utilities help you conserve water
- Recycling Electronic Equipment - Take It Back Network from King County
- Waste Prevention Programs - King County
- Composting - King County
- Rain Barrels - King County