Community Corner

Get your Trash Ready: Neighborhood Clean-up Coming Up

Take advantage of city garbage collection services between Oct. 3 - 7 when most residents within city limits can set out additional garbage on their normal pick-up day with no additional charge.

The city of Enumclaw is getting ready to help you declutter!

On your regular trash pick-up day all next week (between October 3 and October 7), you are able to put more garbage out for collection at no additional charge.

This once-a-year service comes as the city's 13th Annual Residential Neighborhood Clean-up. See city site for more information.

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Most residents*, including duplex residents, within city limits, can set out additional trash within the following limitations, according to the city flyer:

  • One major appliance
  • Up to five extra bags, bundles or cans of trash will be allowed. All trash must be bagged, bundled or contained in a receptacle equivalent to 32 gallons and cannot exceed 50 pounds.

Oversized items will not be removed. All extra recycling will be removed, provided it is properly contained. Surplus steel, with a maximum size of 4’ in length and 4” in diameter, will be collected.

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Furniture, computers, monitors or televisions are no longer acceptable. Other unacceptable items include:  liquids, hazardous wastes, yardwaste, tires, rocks and concrete.

*Apartment residents & mobile home parks are NOT eligible for participation

If you have questions, call the City of Enumclaw Shops at 360-825-5541.

But What Do I Do with the Stuff the City Won't Take?

Earlier this year, Patch spoke with Kurt Mattioda, the owner of , a new business located in the same building as Intent Yoga on Cole Street that will likely take your surplus items and even pick it up for you. .

Enumclaw Recyclers (www.enumclawrecyclers.com) takes the following items for free -- or you can call 253-218-9248 to arrange a pick up:

Appliances:

  • Washers
  • Dryers
  • Hot water heaters
  • Refrigerators*
  • Stoves
  • Microwaves
  • Dishwashers

Small Appliances:

  • Toasters
  • Fans
  • Blenders
  • Bread machines
  • Coffee makers
  • Heaters

Household Items:

  • Sinks, faucets
  • Tubs
  • Pots and pans
  • Metal windows and doors
  • Bed frames
  • Vacuum cleaners

Outdoor Items:

  • Car and motorcycle batteries
  • Vehicles (with a title)
  • Tires with wheels*
  • Lawn mowers
  • Barbeques
  • Propane tanks
  • Lawn furniture
  • Anything with a motor

Electronic equipment:

  • Cell phones
  • Computer hard drives
  • Monitors
  • Stereos and speakers
  • TVs and VCRs
  • Lamps
  • Electrical cords
  • Ink and toner cartridges

*Note that the disposal of refrigerators and tires does incur a fee.

E-Cycle Washington

Enumclaw Recyclers is also an official collection center for Washington's E-Cycle program and will accept and properly dispose of the following computer equipment:

  • Computers
  • CPUs (Towers)
  • Laptops
  • Computer Monitors
  • Televisions

Click here for more information about E-Cycle Washington.


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