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Public Works | Solid Waste Division
Unincorporated Residents
Residents within City Limits
If you live within city limits, such as Anacortes, Burlington, Mount Vernon, or Sedro-Woolley, your city provides curbside recycling. Please reach out to the city in which you reside to ask about recycling services.
Check out information on what each accept.
Waste Management Now Accepts To-Go Cups!
Frequent Household Recycling Items
The following items are accepted by the Skagit County Transfer Station recycling areas. If there is too much contamination with other unwanted materials, the whole load may have to go to a landfill rather than be recycled into new products. Please sort into the following accepted categories:
Aluminum cans: Must be empty and clean.
Cardboard: The transfer station accepts corrugated cardboard only. It must be empty, with no liners or contents and flattened.
Glass bottles and jars: Must be empty and clean, without lids, separated by color (green, brown, and clear). No dishware, pottery, window glass, or mirrors allowed.
Mixed Paper: Must be dry and clean! This includes clean and dry advertising mail, envelopes, cereal boxes, soda & beer boxes, phone books, paper egg cartons, school papers, paper sacks, and magazines. Remember no pizza boxes or other food-contaminated paper is allowed.
Newspapers: Must be clean and without kitty litter or excessively soiled.
Plastics: Clean plastic bottles, jugs, and tubs ONLY. Keep items loose, not in plastic bags. No other plastic is accepted (i.e. clamshells, bakery trays or plastic bags).
Scrap metal: Please remove all plastic or other non-metal materials from your scrap before disposal.
Find more infomation on how to recycle different items below.
You can take your appliances to one of the following locations. Call to verify fees and to ensure that your appliance type is accepted.
Computers, TVs, and Electronics
Computers, televisions, and other electronic equipment contain heavy metals and other hazardous materials that should not go into a landfill. Beginning January 1, 2009, recycling is free for the following products under Washington’s E-Cycle law:
Look for the E-Cycle Washington logo at participating vendors. For recycling locations for the above products, please visit the website or call 1800RECYCLE.Peripherals, such as cell phones, mice, printers, copiers, and scanners may be covered at local drop off locations for a small $ fee.
Recycle Locations:
Anacortes
Aktion Club of Anacortes
Frontier Lumber
1911 Commercial Ave
Anacortes, WA
from 9:00 a.m. – Noon the second Saturday of every month
Mount Vernon
Goodwill Store
102 Valley Mall Way
(360) 848-0646
Goodwill is open for electronics drop-off from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday and from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sundays.
Pacific Power Batteries
107 E. Cedar St,
Mt. Vernon, WA 98273
Phone:425-259-9260
Open Monday-Friday, 8 a.m. – 6 p.m.; Saturday-Sunday, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Sedro-Woolley
City Recycling Facility
315 Sterling Street
(360) 855-1884
Electronics can be dropped off from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays at the facility at the corner of 3rd and Sterling Streets.
Lumber and Building Materials Exchanges
Building Salvage Supply Stores
Secondhand Stores
Neighborhood Barter & Trade
Online Materials Exchange
Building Salvage Supply Stores
Not all food waste can be composted at home, nor do all households choose to compost on-site. If you are interested in composting more types of food waste, or are interested in yard wastepick-up at the curbside, Waste Management provides food & yard waste pick-up in the cities of Anacortes, Burlington, Sedro-Woolley and the town of La Conner including Shelter Bay. If you live outside the city or town limits, you may still qualify, find out by contacting Waste Management at 360-757-4851. Waste Management hauls all of the yard and food waste collected at the curbside to Skagit Soils for composting. Skagit Soils will also accept yard & food waste dropped-off by customers.
What can you place in your curbside food & yard waste bin?
Yard WasteYard waste can be picked up with food waste via the curbside pick-up service provided through your city by Waste Management. Please see Food Waste (above) for more information.
Drop-Off Locations for Yard Waste
Mount Vernon (Residents Only)
Purchase punch cards for $5, $10, or $20
$1 per punch, loads up to 60 lbs.
City Shop, 409 W. Fir Street, (360) 336-6218
March - October: Wed-Fri, 11:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m, Sat and Sunday, 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
November - February: Wed, Sat, Sun 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Grass, leaves, fruits, vegetables, brush, and branches that are no more than 7 inches in diameter
Sedro-Woolley (Residents and Urban Growth Areas)
315 Sterling Street, (360) 855-0929
$12.00 per yard
March - Sept: Mon and Sat, 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Oct - first weekend in Nov: Sat, 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
2nd week in Nov - Feb: no drop-off
Grass clippings and light brush. *Pumpkins: First 2 weeks / November, bare Christmas trees first 3 weeks / January.
You can dispose of the following batteries at all Skagit County Recycling Sites.
a. Rechargeables
b. Automotive
c. Button
d. NiCad
e. Lead-Acid
Single-use, alkaline batteries are NOT accepted at any of the Skagit County Transfer Sites.
Please do not bring them in for recycling. Alkaline batteries made in the United States (Energizer, Duracell, etc.) in the last 5 years do not contain mercury and can be thrown in the regular garbage. When purchasing batteries it is always good to consider buying rechargeables.
You can drop off all types of household and automotive batteries at Pacific Power Battery
107 E Cedar Street Mount Vernon WA 98273
360-419-3190
(Across the parking lot from the Chuck Wagon)
Cars: Have a car you need to get rid of and want to recycle? Try one of these options:
Tires:
The County's Ovenell Transfer Station will take up to four tires, no larger than 36-inches in diameter. General waste rates apply.
Please refrain from illegal dumping!
Illegal dump sites are hazardous to wildlife and human health and are very expensive to clean up. To report illegal dumping, please call (360) 416-1573.
The following information is for households only. Businesses must contact the Small Quantity Generator Program to arrange for disposal of chemicals. Each type of oil or chemical must not be mixed with other chemicals and must be stored in an unbreakable, sealed container.
Antifreeze: Households may dispose of up to five gallons of antifreeze at any of the Skagit County Recycling Sites.
Motor oil: Households may dispose of up to five gallons of motor oil at any of the Skagit County Recycling Sites. You can also take motor oil to:
Schuck's Auto Supply
Riverside Drive, Mount Vernon, 360-424-6131
Burlington Boulevard, Burlington, 360-707-0310
Crossroads Square, Sedro-Woolley, 360-854-9508
Paint Recycling
Skagit households and businesses have a new place to put old paint with the debut of the PaintCare program. This new recycling program makes it safe and easy to recycle leftover paint stain, and varnish, free at over 149 locations across Washington. The PaintCare program collaborates with local government facilities and paint retailers near residential neighborhoods. These locations make it simple for households and businesses to find their nearest drop-off site by visiting PaintCare’s online site locator. To reinforce the program’s ease of use, businesses, organizations, and households with 200 gallons of paint or more to recycle may request a free pickup at their location. Some restrictions apply. More information about what kinds of paints are accepted, and a request form are found on PaintCare’s website. Find out more about PaintCare, and locate drop-off locations near you by visiting the website https://www.paintcare.org/states/washington/
Most PaintCare drop-off locations accept both latex and oil-based architectural paint products, including paints, stains, and varnishes. Paint must be dropped off for recycling in original containers with its original manufacturer labels. Non-PaintCare products (those not accepted for recycling within the program) are still acceptable to bring to the Skagit County Household Hazardous Waste Facility for disposal.
PaintCare Products
Non-PaintCare Products
Pharmaceuticals
Skagit County Health Department: Dispose of Medical Wastes Properly
Walgreens Pharmacy now sells pill disposal pouches for a small fee. Place you leftover pills in a pouch and return them to the pharmacy for safe disposal.
Sharps Disposal By Mail System
Waste Management provides each customer with a specially designed sharps container for used needles, a government-approved exterior shipping box, and instructions for use. When the container is full, it is closed, bagged, and sealed inside its original exterior packaging. Residential and commercial customers simply return the postage pre-paid box to their mail carrier or nearest post office. It is then delivered to the Sharps Disposal by Mail System processing center where the receipt and complete destruction of the container and its contents are fully documented.
www.wastemd.com
877-WASTE-MD
877-927-8363
Steel is accepted at Skagit County's recycling sites, as well as at Skagit River Steel & Recycling, 360-757-6096, in Burlington.
The LightCycle Washington program makes it easy to recycle fluorescent lights! You can drop up to 10 bulbs a day, compact fluorescents, tubes or HID bulbs, at any of the following Skagit locations for no cost.
Visit www.lightrecycle.org for additional information.
Kaptein's Ace Hardware
1420 Riverside Dr.
Mount Vernon
Mon-Sat 7:30 am - 7 pm
Ekrem Hardware Do-It Center
237 E. Fairhaven Ave.
Burlington, WA
Mon-Sat 8 am - 5:30 pm
Chuckanut Lighting
938 Fountain St.
Burlington, WA
Mon-Fri 9 am - 6 pm, Sat 10-5
City Recycling Center
315 Sterling Street
Sedro-Woolley, WA
Mon 7 am - 2 pm
Fluorescent and compact florescent light bulbs contain trace amounts of mercury, a hazardous material. Please store used bulbs safely to prevent breakage and take to the Skagit County Household Hazardous Waste Facility at the Ovenell Transfer Station. Households can also take their light bulbs to Lowe’s and Home Depot for collection or to the Skagit County PSE office. Note that PSE only accepts small household fluorescent bulbs but no large tubes or other lighting.
Businesses needing to safely dispose of their fluorescent lighting should contact the Small Quantity Generator program.
Guide to Recycling and Solid Waste Brochure
Cell phones and accessories are made from valuable resources such as precious metals, copper, and plastics - all of which require energy to extract and manufacture. Recycling cell phones reduces greenhouse gas emissions, keeps valuable material out of landfills and incinerators, and conserves natural resources.
Styrofoam
Styro Recycle Inc-Renton
West of Ikea
253-838-9555
http://www.styrorecycle.com/contact/contact.htm
Monday-Sunday, 9am-5pm
