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Washington Transfer Stations, Dumps & Landfills

Where to dump across Washington — with the real hours, fees and resident rules that are hard to dig out of city and county websites. 126 sites from the Washington Department of Ecology's records: 68 transfer stations, 31 drop boxes and hazardous waste drop-offs, 10 landfills, and compost and construction-debris sites.

Washington cities

How disposal works in Washington

In Washington you'll usually take a load to a transfer station, not a landfill. Cities and counties run the stations, weigh every load, and truck the garbage on to a regional landfill. That makes dumping expensive by national standards: in the places we've written up, garbage runs from $51.10 a ton for Richland residents at Horn Rapids to $243.38 in King County. What keeps a small trip affordable is the minimum charge, which covers the first few hundred pounds.

Separate your load before you go. Yard waste and clean wood cost less than garbage almost everywhere, recycling is often free, and a mixed load is usually charged as garbage. Hazardous waste goes to a separate drop-off, free for residents but on its own days. These are the counties with the most sites in our data:

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