ESOP Home services and building
Recology collects garbage, recycling and food and yard waste in 13 King County cities, including Seattle, Shoreline, Issaquah, Redmond and Burien, and runs Recology Stores that sell reusable household goods and take hard-to-recycle items like batteries and textiles. The company has been 100 percent employee-owned through an ESOP since 1986.
At a glance
- Ownership
- ESOP, 100 percent employee-owned
- Employee-owned since
- 1986
- Location
- Seattle, Shoreline, Bothell, Issaquah, Redmond, Mercer Island, Burien, SeaTac, Tukwila, Des Moines, Maple Valley and other King County cities
- Address
- Recology Store Shoreline, 15235 Aurora Ave N Ste 102, Shoreline
- Region
- Seattle, Eastside, South King County and Tacoma, North End and Everett
- Website
- www.recology.com/recology-king-county
- Category
- Home services and building
How it's owned
An employee stock ownership plan: a trust holds company shares for employees, usually as a retirement benefit, with conventional management.
In the company's own words: “became 100% employee owned in 1986, through the Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP).”
Information verified October 2026 by FYP Seattle. Know something we got wrong, or a business we missed? Tell us and we'll fix it.