Ready Recycles

We are excited to offer you the convenience of our business and residential recycle pick up services now available in the Palmer Wasilla area.There is definitely a tremendous potential to recover useable materials from the waste stream produced in the Matanuska Valley. Most people will recycle if it is simple, easy and convenient.We offer our recycle pick up services at a reasonable rate to collect, sort, and deliver recovered materials to the recycling center. Whether you have a business or a home in our service area, or both, we can work out just the right plan to meet your needs.

Ready to Start a Recycling Program at Your Place of Business?    

Our commendations! Your choice to begin recycling at work will define you as a responsible steward of our environment, a leader in safeguarding the sustainability of this land for future generations.Ready Recycles is here to help you achieve your goals. Wondering how to get started? Sign up for one of our Easy Recycling Plan Options starting as low as $20/month. Contact us at 745-4224 for more information. Visit our webstore for container ideas. We have some great business incentives. Ask about our discount prices, special rates, and other perks for eco-friendly local businesses!

Our Mission

We will inspire Alaskans in our community to recycle, offering our services to make recycling simple, convenient and affordable.

Our Curbside Pick Up Service

Our rates are the lowest in all of Southcentral Alaska for the services we provide. Our goal is to keep overhead low while providing a quality product and service to all. We are committed to success, and dedicated to helping our customers keep Alaska clean and beautiful. Let's all do our part to make curbside recycling a permanent mainstay in the Matanuska Valley.

When Ready Recycles started out in the fall of 2009, we had 13 customers, a 1988 Jeep Wrangler, and an old trailer we fixed up to haul separation containers. In four years we have grown, and the community has responded! We now have over 250 customers, residential and commercial, schools, and government agencies. Recycling is taking off here in the Mat-Su, and we are very excited!Ready Recycles has purchased additional trucks and trailers, hired employees, and expanded the boundaries of our service area. Our drivers now have routes surrounding the Palmer Wasilla area as far as the Butte, Palmer and Wasilla Fishhook, Settler's Bay (KGB), Pittman Rd., Parks and Vine.

Rates & Services

Commercial Rates & Services Available

Easy sign up plans available, starting as low as $20 a month for weekly service. Contact us for more information, great discounts and practical incentives.On call or bulk recurring recycles removal service. Basic rate 10 cents a gallon based on container size for pre-sorted materials, plus a service fee charged each time we come to pick up your recyclables: $10.00 and up, depending on volume of materials and location. Minimum pick up is 50 gallons.

• Please allow three business days for on call recycle pick up. This will allow us to coordinate your stop into our route schedule in your area.

• Outside/curbside pick up, or ground floor central location.

• We can also provide inside collection, sorting, and removal of materials for an extra charge.

• Please bag all shredded paper separately, and flatten all cardboard.

• We do not supply or service dumpsters. All materials must be sorted. No materials are compacted until separated and delivered to a materials recovery center.

• Service extends to the greater Palmer Wasilla area only at this time. Billed monthly in arrears.

• Sign up and receive free promotion as an eco-friendly business on our website and in our newsletters.

Residential Rates &   Services

Curbside recycle pick up services once a week, coordinated with your local garbage pick up day for your convenience. $20.00 a month. Service extends to the greater Palmer Wasilla area only at this time.Durable 18.7 gallon curbside recycle container with raised lid provided. Small 55 cents a month rental fee to use container. Customer responsible for container. Replacement fee $35.00.

Our service plan accommodates all recyclables generated from your household. If needed, you may place additional containers at the curbside as long as they are secured from blowing away. We will not charge for extra materials. Do not include materials from other places such as work, relatives, neighbors etc.We also supply you with a concrete paver to place in your container as a precaution on windy days. The extra weight will keep your container from blowing away. Please use it. Also, please do not overfill container or the lid will not snap on tight and will be more likely to blow away.

• Do not let any paper products get wet. Local markets and materials recovery centers will not accept wet paper or paper board, so we will not pick it up.

• We sort all your commingled recyclables for you at the curbside. Please bag all shredded paper separately, and flatten all cardboard and paperboard boxes.

• Door step pick up services available at no extra charge for senior citizens.

• Go to Recycling Tips for types of materials accepted.

• Billed in advance, quarterly. We accept VISA and MasterCard. Auto pay options available.