Recycling options in (and around) the Coulee
Last updated 9/9/2015 at 10:44am
Ever wonder just what your options are for recycling? Here’s a list put together by Coulee Dam Councilmember Gayle Swagerty, who has been exploring the options. Swagerty is an avid recycler and advocates local cooperation for an easier approach.
“Let’s have a conversation about recycling,” she says. “You can recycle in and around the coulee.”
Recyclable
opportunities locally:
• Coulee Hardware
416 Midway Ave Grand Coulee
phone: 633-1090
Materials accepted: household rechargeable batteries
• Coulee Recycling
Alcan Rd NE, Grand Coulee
phone: 633-2175
hours:Wednesday-Saturday
Noon - 4 p.m.
Materials accepted: metals such as copper, brass, aluminum, (currently not buying iron or cans), radiators, automotive batteries
• Delano Regional
Transfer Station
22151 Alcan Rd. NE
phone: 633-0100
hours: March 1 - Oct. 31:
8 a.m. - noon Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday; Saturday 8 a.m. - 3 p.m.; Nov.1-Feb 28: Tuesday and Thursday 8 a.m. - 4 p.m.; and Saturday 8 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Materials accepted: clean appliances free appliances with freon compressors (fee), tires large and small (fee), cardboard .02/lb
• Nespelem Recycling Center
64 Schoolhouse Loop Road,
Nespelem
phone: 634-2416, 634-2158
hours: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. - 4 p.m., Materials accepted: paper, newspaper, magazines, cardboard, plastic #1&2, aluminum and steel cans, small and major appliances, air conditioners, metals, fluorescent lights, e cycling: computers, TV’s, cell phones, wires, toner cartridges, portable cd players
• Safeway
320 Midway Ave, Grand Coulee
hours: 6 a.m. - noon
Materials accepted: plastic grocery bags
• Senior Center
203 Main Street, Grand Coulee
phone: 633-2321
Materials accepted: aluminum cans (collection locations at Senior Center, Safeway, Harvest Foods, Seaton’s Grove), eyeglasses, hearing aids, ink cartridges, telephones
Recycling opportunities
in other locations near by:
• Ephrata Landfill Recycling
Drop-off at the landfill
south of Ephrata just off Hwy 28
hours: Mon. - Fri. 7:30 a.m - 3 p.m.;
Saturday 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.
phone: 509-754-4319
Materials accepted: mixed waste paper (newspaper, envelopes, magazines & catalogs, telephone books, file folders, office & computer paper), corrugated cardboard, glass bottles & jars (all colors), aluminum cans, automobile household batteries (including recyclable), used motor oil (5-gallon maximum), used antifreeze, refrigerators ($7.25 each), washers, dryers, dishwashers (fee by weight), scrap metal 28.80/ton
• Ephrata recycling
drop off Alder St. near bus station
Materials accepted: mixed paper (newspaper, envelopes, magazines & catalogs, telephone books, file folders, office & computer paper), corrugated cardboard, aluminum cans, glass bottles and jars, automobile and household batteries, used oil
• Lincoln County Recycling Center
3.5 miles west of Davenport on
State Route 2
Drop-off bins
Materials accepted: corrugated cardboard, aluminum cans, plastic (pop, water, juice, milk, detergent bottles), newspaper, inserts, magazines, white paper
• Lincoln County Transfer Station
same location
hours: Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday
9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
phone: 509-725-0122
Materials accepted: tires (fee), appliances (has or ever had freon) fee, appliances (all other) free, metals, household chemicals
• Okanogan County Recycle Center
2241 B&O North Road, Okanogan
hours: Tuesday-Saturday
9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
winter hours: (begins Oct 6)
Tuesday-Saturday 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
phone: 509-422-2602
Materials accepted: newsprint, office paper, waste paper (including pop & cereal boxes, junk mail, colored paper), magazines (boxed or tied), plastic jugs (clear and light green, milk jugs), aluminum cans, copper, brass, clean aluminum, radiators, automobile and household batteries, used motor oil
Spokane Waste to Energy Plant
2900 S. Geiger, Spokane
hours: 7:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.
7 days a week except
major holidays
phone: 509-625-6521
Materials accepted: plastic #1&2, mixed plastic #3-7 including garden pots, corrugated cardboard, mixed paper (including cereal boxes, junk mail, egg cartons), aluminum and tin cans, newspapers, magazines, phone books, glass bottles (no plate glass, ceramics or drinking glasses), metals (iron, copper, brass). Hazard materials accepted: household cleaners, gasoline, oil, antifreeze, pool cleaner, pesticides, automotive and household batteries, fluorescent and CFL bulbs, oil-based paint
Be sure to take advantage of the household hazardous waste collection event this Friday, Sept 11, at the Delano Regional Transfer Station from Noon - 4p.m. For locations accepting fluorescent, CFL & HID bulbs, visit LightRecycleWA.org.
Begin your own recycling program by setting up a place at your home to collect the material and drop them off at one of the listed sites when heading in that direction.
Future recycling plans include locating partitioned bins in the coulee to collect recyclable materials to be transported to a recycling center. If you are interested in helping bring expanded opportunities to our area, contact Gayle Swagerty at 633-8375, or email gayleswagerty@gmail.com.
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