Description
Customers within King County’s service area can drop off waste and recycling at one or more of the eight transfer stations and two drop boxes operated by the County. There is opportunity to significantly increase material reuse and recycling at these facilities and reduce associated GHG emissions and operational costs.
King County will increase recycling at transfer stations by expanding Public Deck Spotter staff and by providing information, enforcement, and education about material diversion and sorting. It will continue to expand resource recovery by extracting valuable materials that enter facilities by expanding its fleet of equipment for resource recovery, including excavators, magnets, scrap handler buckets, and belts. The County will also increase the recovery of reusable materials at other King County facilities by creating and/or expanding space at its office buildings, warehouses, transfer stations, and closed landfills dedicated to material recovery and reuse and by increasing resources dedicated to recovery and reuse. Examples of additional infrastructure investments include the construction of an organics collection structure as part of the existing Vashon Transfer Station. At Vashon and Shoreline, King County will install cardboard balers, helping to reduce the required transportation by approximately 75 percent and decreasing the associated GHG emissions. The County will complete the South County Recycling Transfer Station, which is set to open in 2026, and build the Northeast Recycling and Transfer Station, projected to be completed in 2029.