{"id":538014,"date":"2026-03-22T05:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T05:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/538014\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T05:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T05:12:10","slug":"west-seattle-blog-weekend-scene-west-seattles-annual-free-recycle-reuse-shred-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/538014\/","title":{"rendered":"West Seattle Blog\u2026 | WEEKEND SCENE: West Seattle\u2019s annual free recycle\/reuse\/shred event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/3B0FF51B-3C05-41D6-8939-D67FE63962D5.jpeg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/3B0FF51B-3C05-41D6-8939-D67FE63962D5.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1144823\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re in the south lot at <a href=\"https:\/\/southseattle.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">South Seattle College<\/a> (6000 16th SW; WSB sponsor), new location for the annual free recycle\/reuse\/shred event presented by the West Seattle Chamber of Commerce and West Seattle Junction Association with a variety of partners. (<a href=\"https:\/\/westseattleblog.com\/event\/recycle-reuse-shred-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Here\u2019s what they will and won\u2019t take this year<\/a>.) First thing we noticed: No backup on 16th. You can approach from either direction. Not much of a wait once you\u2019re in the lot. The line at the shredding truck is the main wait \u2013 see our top photo. It\u2019s a two-step process this year \u2013 park, and take your stuff over to the trucks (there are volunteers with carts if needed).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/DEE9ED18-F06B-4FB4-A1DC-4641FD7EF261.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/DEE9ED18-F06B-4FB4-A1DC-4641FD7EF261.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1144827\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This continues until noon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We\u2019re in the south lot at South Seattle College (6000 16th SW; WSB sponsor), new location for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-538014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}