City of Olympia Waste Resources

Waste Management serves residential, commercial, and industrial customers through dumpster rentals, recycling services, and other waste collection services.

The Tacoma Solid Waste Management picks up garbage from its residential customers once a week. The company has a fully automated garbage system, which means trucks pick up the garbage containers with a mechanical arm. Tacoma Solid Waste Management provides standard garbage containers for all of our customers. The garbage containers are green, have wheels and come in four sizes, 20-, 30-, 60-and 90-gallon. Customers choose the size of their garbage can, and monthly rates are based on the size of the cans. For disposal of large items, Solid Waste Management provides the Call-2-Haul program. Residential customers can receive up to two pickups of household junk each year.

Waste Management is one of the leading providers of waste and environmental services in North America. The company tailors its services to meet the needs of each customer group and to ensure consistent service at the local level. Headquartered in Houston, the company s network of operations includes more than 429 collection operations, over 370 transfer stations, nearly 290 active landfill disposal sites, 17 waste-to-energy plants, 138 recycling plants and 85 beneficial-use landfill gas projects. These assets enable Waste Management to offer a full range of environmental services to nearly 21 million residential, industrial, municipal and commercial customers. Waste Management provides solid waste collection services to millions of customers across North America, ranging in size from the single residential subscription to large national customers requiring comprehensive, one-source waste programs to serve hundreds of locations. With 25,000 collection and transfer vehicles, the company has one of the largest trucking fleet in the waste industry. With most of the waste collected by Waste Management going to its own landfills, a supporting network of transfer stations provides an important link for efficient disposal. Waste Management operates a large network of landfills, with 289 active sites managing the disposal of more than 115 million tons of waste per year.