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Beyond the Bin

Beyond the Bin: Free Community Reuse Events

The City of Tacoma’s Solid Waste Management team is excited to launch Beyond the Bin, a new series of free community reuse events happening every second and fourth Saturday, May through September 2025.

 

Instead of sending your unwanted (but usable) items to the landfill, bring them to our Beyond the Bin collection events and give them a second life. Your donations will go to local nonprofit partners who repair, repurpose, and redistribute them back into the community, helping neighbors and reducing waste.

 

Schedule of Events

All events will take place at the Tacoma Recovery & Transfer Center (3510 S. Mullen) from 10 AM to 2 PM.

 

Items are accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. Events will end once collection trucks are full. No commercial drop-offs. Oversized, contaminated, damaged, or non-accepted items will not be accepted.

 

Date and Time Featured Partner Accepted Items 

May 10

 Goodwill of the Olympics & Rainier View Accepted Items
May 24 Goodwill of the Olympics & Rainier View Accepted Items

June 14

 Habitat for Humanity View Accepted Items
June 28 Habitat for Humanity View Accepted Items
July 12 Northwest Center View Accepted Items
July 26 NO EVENT SCHEDULED N/A
August 9 Northwest Furniture Bank View Accepted Items
August 23 Northwest Furniture Bank View Accepted Items
September 13 Northwest Center View Accepted Items
September 27 NO EVENT SCHEDULED N/A

Program Objectives

Beyond the Bin events aim to:

  1. Provide community members with a convenient “one-stop shop” for safe, responsible disposal, recycling, and reuse.
  2. Divert more reusable materials away from the landfill.
  3. Recirculate valuable items back into the community.
  4. Build strong partnerships with local and regional organizations leading in waste reduction.

 

Beyond the Bin on TV Tacoma

Learn more about Beyond the Bin on an April 2025 edition of Cityline, hosted by TV Tacoma:

 

Questions?

Kate Waind, Waste Reduction Specialist
kwaind@cityoftacoma.org



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