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Metal
What you can recycle depends on whether you’re recycling at your house or apartment or at a Recycling and Disposal Station. Please see the information below for details.
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OK in home recycling or at Transfer Station
OK only at Transfer Station
NOT accepted in home recycling or at Transfer Stations
OK in home recycling or at Transfer Station
- • Aluminum foil, pans or trays
- • Aluminum beverage cans, such as beer and pop. Please empty. Labels are OK.
- • Steel or tin cans - Rinse, leave lids attached, pushed down inside can. (Throw away loose lids. It is not necessary to remove labels.)
- • Metal hangers
- • Scrap metal (less than 2 ft. x 2 ft. x 2 ft.)
- • Cookware (pots, pans, cookie sheets, etc.) made of ferrous metal (remove any non-metal parts
OK only at Transfer Station
- • Appliances - for a fee
- • Bicycles
- • Empty barrels or drums - Clean and cut them in half. Not accepted if they have been used for hazardous materials.
- • Hot water heaters – remove all interior and exterior insulation. (Appliance rate charged for heaters with insulation.)
- • Lawn mowers - drain gas and oil
- • Scrap metal - copper, wire hangers, cast iron, etc.
- • Steel garbage cans
- • Vehicle batteries
NOT accepted in home recycling or at Transfer Stations
- • Items smaller than 3" are too small to be recycled: they can jam the machinery at the recycling plant.
- • Household batteries - Alkaline batteries (AA, C, D, 9v, etc.) go in garbage. But vehicle batteries are accepted for recycling at the Transfer Station.
- • Rechargeable batteries are not accepted by SPU; see Rechargable Battery Recycling Corporation for recycling locations.
- • Asbestos
- • Bottle caps
- • Can lids smaller than 3 inches (unless attached to can)
- • Cans with liquid or food left inside.
- • Chip bags
- • Engines or auto parts
- • Metal with other materials attached
- • Office or copy machines
- • Oil tanks
- • Propane tanks or containers of other pressurized flammable gases
- • Drums that contained hazardous waste
- • Wrapped pipe (pipe that is unwrapped and made of ferrous material is accepted at the Transfer Station)
Related links
Recycling & Disposal Stations
Links to other sites
Resource Venture
King County Reuse and Recycling Database
Take it Back Network — for cell phones, stereos, VCRs, printers
E-Cycle Washington - for computers, monitors, and TVs
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