Starting March 30, Seattle Public Utilities will offer new recycling services with added options for glass, paper, food waste, electronics, oil, plastics and more. The recycling program aims to help the city divert 60 percent of all generated waste to recycling or composting by 2012.

Currently, Seattle sends over 400,000 tons of garbage to a landfill in eastern Oregon. That is enough waste to fill 7,000 train cars each year. More than half of the disposed items are recyclable or compostable.

Food and yard waste will now be collected every week. Currently, food and yard waste is collected every other week. There will also be more food and yard waste cart sizes to choose from, including 13-gallon, 32-gallon and 96-gallon options.

All leftover food, including meat, fish and dairy, can go into the recycling and yard waste carts now.

Food scraps account for one-third, or 45,000 tons, of residential trash each year, according to a city news release. Last year, more than 100,000 Seattle households helped divert 80,000 tons of food and yard waste from the landfill, turning into compost for local parks and gardens.

There will also no longer be recycling containers just for glass. Glass now goes into the same container as the rest of recycling.

Now more paper, plastic and metal items can be recycled including cups, deli trays, aluminum foil and plastic plant pots.

Used motor oil will be picked up curbside for no cost.

Most households will also have new trash pick-up days and all will be subject to new solid waste rates.