No Matter What Kind Of Trash You Have, There's A Place For It

-------------------------------- KING COUNTY SOLID WASTE DIVISION. --------------------------------

------------------- GENERAL INFORMATION. -------------------

Office Hours: 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Monday-Friday.

General Information: 296-6540 (recording) or 296-6542.

Recycling/Composting Information 296-4466 (Office can provide a resource guide to recycling centers in King County that accept or buy back recyclables.)

Transfer stations and rural landfills are open seven days a week, except Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day. Transfer station hours are 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. except Factoria, which is open 8 a.m. to 1 a.m. Monday through Friday, and 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. weekends. Drop Box and rural landfill Standard Time hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Daylight Savings Time hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

-------------------------- TRANSFER STATION LOCATIONS. --------------------------

(All but Renton and Algona have recycling bins).

-- First Northeast: 2300 North 165th St., (North 165th Street and Meridian Avenue North), Seattle.

-- Bow Lake: 18800 Orillia Road S., Tukwila.

-- Renton: 3021 N.E. Fourth Street, Renton.

-- Algona: 35315 West Valley Highway, Algona.

-- Houghton: 11724 N.E. 60th St., Kirkland.

-- Factoria: 13800 S.E. 32nd St., Bellevue.

------------------------ RURAL LANDFILLS/DROP BOX. ------------------------

(All have recycling bins.)

-- Hobart: 24041 276th Ave., S.E., Hobart (open to service area only.)

-- Vashon Island: 18910 Westside Highway S.W., Vashon.

-- Cedar Falls: 16925 Cedar Falls Road S.E., North Bend.

----- RATES. -----

1. Sites with scales: (Transfer stations and Hobart/Vashon Landfills.)

-- Basic fee - $71.77/ton (with tax and surcharges.)

-- Yard Waste - $60.67/ton.

(Hobart and Factoria are the only sites with scales that take yard waste.) 2. Sites without scales: (Enumclaw Landfill, Cedar Falls Drop Box.)

-- Uncompacted Solid Waste - $11.97/cubic yard.

-- Uncompacted Yard Waste - $9.94/cubic yard.

-- (Cedars Falls is the only site without scales that takes yard waste.)

-- Minimum charge (at Hobart, Factoria & Cedar Falls only.) Solid Waste - $10.75/entry.

-- Yard Waste - $7.75/entry.

--------- RECYCLING. ---------

Residents in unincorporated King County generally have curbside collection of recyclables. King County's recycling line can give information on haulers for unincorporated King County; a list of recycling coordinators in King County cities outside Seattle; recycling sites other than transfer stations, and private yard waste and wood/composting facilities in King County. Call 296-4466.

Acceptable materials:

-- All facilities that accept recycling take aluminum cans, glass jars and bottles, tin cans, newspaper, mixed paper, and cardboard boxes.

-- Plastics are accepted at the Bow Lake Transfer Station, and all the rural landfills and the Cedar Falls drop box. Accepted are the No. 1 (PET bottles such as soft drinks and liquor bottles), and No. 2 (HDPE, plastic bottles, such as milk jugs, detergent and lotion bottles.)

---------------------- YARD WASTE/KING COUNTY. ----------------------

Acceptable materials.

-- Leaves, grass, brush, clippings, prunings and branches under 4 inches in diameter and 8 feet in length. Unacceptable materials.

-- Stumps, lumber, rocks, dirt or sod, demolition debris or plastic.

-- Containers used for transport must be emptied and taken home for disposal or re-use, especially plastic bags.

------------------------------- HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTEMOBILE. -------------------------------

King County has a mobile collections in 24 locations each year throughout King County in areas not served by permanent household hazardous waste collection facilities. Residential hazardous waste is also accepted at no charge at the South Household Hazardous Waste Facilities. (see Seattle above.)

Acceptable materials.

-- Pesticides, oil-base paints, thinners and solvents, hobby chemicals, cleaning products, motor oil (or call 1-800-RECYCLE), latex paints (can be dried out instead.)

Unacceptable materials.

-- Explosives (call Bomb Squad, 911), business wastes.

All locations free to King County residents.

Upcoming wastemobile locations:

June 4-6, 11-13 - Kirkland.

June 18-20, 25-27 - Des Moines.

July 9-11, 16-18 - Carnation-Duvall.

July 23-25, July 30-Aug. 1 - Woodinville.

Aug. 6-8, 13-15 - Issaquah.

Aug. 20-22, 27-29 - Fairwood.

Sept. 3-5, 10-12 - Auburn.

Sept 17-19, 24-26 - Bellevue.

Oct. 1-3, 8-10 - Vashon.

Oct. 15-17, 22-24 - Kent.

Oct. 29-31, Nov. 5-7 - Federal Way.

Nov. 12-14, 19-21 - Tahoma.

Dec. 3-5, 10-12, Redmond.

Hours:

Thursday and Friday, noon to 7 p.m.

Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Call the Hazards Line for more information, 296-4692.

---------------- SNOHOMISH COUNTY. ----------------

----------------- TRANSFER STATIONS. -----------------

-- Everett Transfer Station, 2902 36th St., Everett. Hours: Monday-Friday, 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; closed June 13-14 for repairs. Starting June 17, closed to public 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays and takes nothing over pickup size except from commercial haulers.

-- Southwest Transfer Station, 21311 61st Place W., Mountlake Terrace; Monday-Friday, 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; starting June 17, closed to public 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays.

-- North County Transfer Station, 19600 63rd Ave. N.E., Arlington, open seven days a week 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Closed June 8-16 for repairs.

---------- DROP BOXES. ----------

(Nothing over 5 cubic yards at these sites. All open 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. but days differ.)

-- Gold Bar: 42819 Highway 2, Gold Bar, Tuesday and Saturday.

-- Granite Falls: 7526 Menzel Lake Road, Granite Falls, Sunday, Monday and Friday.

-- Lake Roesiger: 19619 Dubuque Road, Snohomish, Tuesday and Saturday.

-- Monroe: 19235 144th St., S.E., Monroe, seven days a week.

-- Oso: 30022 203rd Ave. N.E. Arlington, Saturday and Sunday. (Open seven days a week during North County closure June 8-16.) 435-2844.

-- Sultan: 33014 Cemetery Road, Sultan, Sunday, Monday and Friday.

Call 388-3425 during business hours for more information, or 388-3429 for a 24-hour-recording.

----- RATES. -----

Transfer stations.

-- Passenger car, $13.50.

-- Pickup truck, $15 minimum.

Drop Boxes.

-- Passenger car (sedan) $13.50.

-- Pickup truck (5-cubic yard maximum) $15 minimum.

(Neither transfer sites nor drop boxes can accept items over 6 feet long. Cut longer items in half. Call ahead, 388-3425, if you have questions. Items such sod and dirt are not accepted.)

-------------------------- HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE. --------------------------

-- Save for periodic county roundups. Next roundups Sept. 24-Oct. 16 in four locations to be determined.

-- Includes paint, household cleaners, pesticides, chemicals.

-- Call 388-3425 for schedule.

--------- RECYCLING. ---------

-- Curbside recycling is available to almost all single and multiple-family residences. Call your garbage collection service or city hall for details or to sign up.

-- 35 drop-off centers county-wide, including drop-off boxes and transfer stations. Free recycling of mixed paper, newspaper, glass, bottles, tin and aluminum cans.

-- Call 388-3425 for locations and how to prepare materials.

-- See Yellow Pages under "Recycling" for private buyback centers.

-- Motor oil and antifreeze can be taken to area Schuck's Auto Works.

-- Call 388-3425 during business hours for more information, or 388-3429 for a 24-hour-recording.

------------- PIERCE COUNTY. -------------

--------- LOCATIONS. ---------

1. Hidden Valley Landfill.

17925 Meridian Street E.

Puyallup.

Hours: Seven days a week, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Cost: $48 ton.

2. Prairie Ridge Transfer Station.

South Prairie Ridge and Prairie Ridge Road.

Bonney Lake.

Hours: Wednesday through Sunday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Cost: $48 a ton.

3. Purdy Transfer Station.

14515 54th Ave. N.W.

Purdy.

Wednesday through Sunday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Cost: $48 a ton.

-- Pierce County Utilities Department holds a Hazardous Waste Turn-In Event annually about the middle of April at the Puyallup Fairgrounds.

-- Pierce County has a curbside yard waste program and a county-owned compost facility at Purdy.

-- For more information, call 593-4050.

----------- OTHER AREAS. -----------

If you live outside these jurisdictions, call the Solid Waste Utility number for your county or city that's listed in the phone book.