When is recycling collected in Wenatchee WA?
WM collects Wenatchee recycling every week on your garbage day. Put items in empty, clean, and loose, with no plastic bags and no shredded paper. Bags snag the conveyor belts at the recycling center, and shredded paper is too small to sort. Extra recycling that does not fit with the lid closed costs $3.92 per 32-gallon bag, or rent an extra cart at a reduced rate.
Can I recycle plastic tubs and to-go cups in Wenatchee?
Yes. WM added paper to-go hot cups, polypropylene cold cups, and plastic tubs for yogurt, cottage cheese, butter, and take-out soup to its curbside list. Tub lids, plastic lids, clamshells, K-Cup pods, plastic straws, and #6 cups such as Red Solo cups go in the garbage. Plastic bottles go in without their lids.
What does the Wenatchee Transfer Station charge?
The Wenatchee Transfer Station at 1421 South Wenatchee Avenue charges a $56.70 minimum for loads up to 1,000 pounds and $113.40 per ton above that. Yard waste costs $22.81 up to 500 pounds and $91.25 per ton above. A single furniture item costs $16.80. Every bill adds the 19.05% Wenatchee utility tax, the 3.6% state solid waste tax, a $1 per ton health district charge, and an energy surcharge.
Where do I take tires in Wenatchee?
The Wenatchee Transfer Station takes tires at $7.80 each without a rim and $10.80 with a rim, up to 6 per load, plus fees and taxes. Chelan County's Dryden and Chelan transfer stations take unmounted tires, and Dryden limits you to 5 a day.
Is there a recycling drop-off near Wenatchee?
Chelan County's Dryden Transfer Station takes aluminum and tin cans, cardboard, mixed paper, newsprint, magazines, paper and plastic cups, plastic tubs, milk jugs, plastic bottles, scrap metal, and appliances. It takes no glass. Scrap metal loads cost $30 a ton with a $15 minimum. Appliance loads cost $15 for up to 2, and refrigerators, freezers, and air conditioners $30 each.
Where does Wenatchee take household hazardous waste?
Not to the Wenatchee Transfer Station, which refuses hazardous waste. Chelan County Solid Waste runs household hazardous waste collections and turns away propane tanks, tires, computers, needles, fireworks, ammunition, and asbestos. Take rechargeable and button batteries to a Battery Network drop-off site. Call Chelan County Solid Waste at (509) 667-6415.