Innovative recycling changes have flown into SeaTac, making recycling more convenient than ever for its residents.

Allied Waste Services now accepts more recyclables in your curbside-recycling cart. By keeping all recyclables out of your garbage cart, you may be able to scale down your garbage cart size.

Here are some changes you’ll notice with the new service:

- More items are now accepted for recycling, including plastic food trays (like take-out containers), plastic bags, kitchen plastic wrap used for packaging, dry cleaner bags, aluminum foil, plastic plant pots, lids measuring three inches and larger, and paper and plastic cups.
All recyclables should be relatively clean, with no big chunks of food or dirt. The plastic bags and plastic wrap must be combined in one bag and tied off, since loose bags get tangled in recycling processing equipment.

- Your Allied Waste Services yard waste cart can be filled with all your yard debris and all your food scraps as well, including meat, fish, bones and dairy products.
Also use it for all your food-soiled paper, from pizza boxes to napkins. Pile it in! And you now have three different sizes to choose from for your yard waste/food scraps cart: 96-gallon, 64-gallon or 32-gallon.

- You also have several choices for garbage service, and potentially lower costs. Preventing waste in the first place can save you money! In addition to keeping more green stuff in your wallet and reducing waste, we expect that this new system will also make your life easier.

For more info go to http://www.rabanco.com/collection/seatac or call 206-682-9735 (single-family residential customers) or 253-872-7220 (multi-family and commercial customers).

Thanks for recycling!