Collections

West Seattle Recycling Inc. offers Seattle and King Co. businesses an office paper collection service. Our program features reliable, friendly service with a no-cost emphasis.

We have been in business since 1979.

We are well-known in the industry for our excellent personal and flexible approach to meet our client's needs.

Our program is tailored to fit our customer's specific needs.

We offer a variety of containers (at no charge) ranging from attractive grey fiber barrels, larger 90-gallon plastic wheeled "toters", up to larger containers that can hold 1000 lbs. of paper for large volume clients.

Most of our collections are made on an "on-call" basis, with a 1-3 day lead time depending on area. (We may be able to do pick-ups on an emergency basis as well.)

Most of our accounts are collected at no charge/no pay depending on volume, distance and quality of paper.

In some cases, we are able to pay our accounts for their paper: examples of pay accounts are: large print shops with minimum contamination, accounts that generate primarily white ledger/computer paper, large newspaper accounts.

Accounts that generate a lot of "mixed waste paper" (see below) may incur a small collection fee. (In general, the more sorting that our accounts do, the more they are rewarded either through payment or no charge.)

We specialize in file purge collection for no charge.

Small fees may be necessary due to access, contamination, poor quality paper, distance or other complications. Please call for specific information.

The main types of paper we collect are

WHITE LEDGER/COMPUTER PAPER
This is the highest value paper that we are willing to pay for collections of more than 500 lbs. per stop. White ledger is the same as your standard office stationery and copy paper. Please do not include ream wrappers, junk mail; keep "colored "post-its" to a minimum. Staples and paper clips are OK.

PRINTER'S MIX/"OFFICE PACK"/FILE STOCK
This is a commingled grade that mostly involves printer waste including coated and colored paper stock. Offices may include FILE STOCK, carbonless/triplicate forms, fax paper, windowed envelopes, coated brochures and flyers, all letterhead, etc. We ask that you try to keep out: astrobrights, goldenrod, brown kraft paper, chipboard, adhesive-backed paper (label stock) cardboard, glued bindings and mixed junk mail. We may be able to pay for large volume collections depending on market conditions.

NEWSPAPER
We specialize in the collection of sorted newspaper and pay the top price in town for this grade. We will provide you with a variety of containers to fit your needs.

NOTE: At any time, our customers can come into the West Seattle Recycling Center with paper and receive top dollar. We have many customers who recycle white paper and especially newspaper for cash. We are open Monday through Saturday 9-5:30. Prices range from 2-3c per pound for news and colored office to 6c for white ledger.

CONTAMINATION
Also called "mixed waste paper", these items downgrade the above higher grades of paper. In order to maximize the value of your paper, we ask that you remove these common contaminants from your paper, IF POSSIBLE. If sorting is not practical, a charge may be necessary. However, we will work with you to avoid problems or misunderstandings.

PLEASE KEEP SEPARATE

• Copy paper/ream wrappers
• Envelopes, junk mail
• Phone books, magazines
• Cardboard, chipboard
• Tape, glued bindings, post it notes
• Trash, styrofoam, food packaging
• Newspaper (OK if separated, see above) paper bags, neon/astrobright paper

NOTE: many of our accounts have several containers for "good" sorted paper (white, print mix/colored) and 1 container used for the "bad" mixed paper. As long as these grades are kept separate, and as long as you do not generate mostly mixed paper, there will be NO CHARGE. We provide signage for the different grades of paper to aid in sorting.

We ensure the confidential handling of our client's paper. All paper is put into our trucks and then sorted and baled in a secured warehouse with no public access and ultimately pulped at a mill. However, we do not shred paper. We can provice a "Certificate of Destruction" that guarantees this secure procedure will be followed.

We look forward to meeting with your business at any time to discuss our High Grade Paper Program.

At any time call 206-935-4255 for further information.