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Oregon Dumps, Transfer Stations & Landfills

Where to dump across Oregon — with the real hours, fees and rules that are hard to dig out of Metro and county websites. 144 sites from the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality's permit records: 105 transfer stations, 23 landfills, and hazardous waste, yard debris, recycling and construction-debris sites.

Oregon cities

How disposal works in Oregon

Most Oregonians haul to a transfer station, not a landfill. Counties run them almost everywhere; in the Portland area it's Metro, the regional government, with stations in Northwest Portland and Oregon City. Some landfills, like Roseburg's, take only commercial haulers, so the station is the public's way in.

Prices swing more than you'd expect. A small load costs $8.50 at the Klamath Falls Landfill and $51 at Metro; heavier loads run from $111 a ton in Klamath County to $176.70 at Metro. Rural stations in Lane, Douglas and Klamath counties charge by the can or cubic yard instead of weighing you, and many are open only a few days a week.

Sort before you go: yard debris and clean wood cost less than garbage nearly everywhere, recycling is usually free, and Oregon's electronics law means computers, monitors and TVs go to an Oregon E-Cycles drop-off, never the trash. These are the counties with the most sites in our data:

We're writing Oregon up city by city — 8 areas are live, with more on the way, and our guide to what it costs to dump in Oregon puts their rates side by side.