West Virginia Landfills, Transfer Stations & Dumps
Where to dump in West Virginia, city by city and county by county, with the real hours, fees and permit rules from each operator's own pages. The finder shows 36 landfills and transfer stations, checked against the state Solid Waste Management Board's facility lists; the places below are checked by hand.
West Virginia counties and cities
How disposal works in West Virginia
West Virginia's Solid Waste Management Board publishes the per-ton rate at every landfill and transfer station, from $32.50 at Short Creek near Wheeling to $98.35 at the Philippi transfer station, including about $8.75 in state and county assessments. County solid waste authorities run many of them: $47.03 a ton in Raleigh County, $53.30 in Tucker County and $61 in Greenbrier County.
State law gives every resident a free day once a month at every landfill, for up to a pickup load of household trash, and bans car batteries, tires and yard waste from landfills.
We're writing West Virginia up place by place: 5 places are live, and our guide to what it costs to dump in West Virginia puts their rates side by side. The finder covers the open landfills and transfer stations in the federal facility data.