Enumclaw Recycling Station Opens Full-Time Soon

ENUMCLAW, WA - Enumclaw's recycling and transfer station will soon be open full-time seven days per week. The full-time hours will begin on May 1, according to King County. The transfer station will be open between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. each day.

Here's more on the new hours from King County:

Beginning May 1, the recycling and transfer station will be open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. seven days a week. The facility is currently closed to the public on Wednesdays and Thursdays.

“Employees working at the Enumclaw station on days when the facility was closed to the public say they have had to turn away customers who were coming to use the station,” said Pat McLaughlin, King County Solid Waste Division Director. “We appreciate the support of the Metropolitan King County Council which approved budget sufficient to provide this enhanced service to residents and businesses in southeast King County.”

“This increase in operating hours will make recycling and solid waste disposal more convenient for my district’s growing population,” said King County Councilmember Reagan Dunn.

Public feedback received by the County’s Solid Waste Division during a 30-day comment period was unanimously supportive of the extended hours.

Located at 1650 Battersby Ave. E., the station serves residents and businesses largely from the Enumclaw, Black Diamond and Maple Valley areas.

In addition to accepting garbage, the station also accepts a wide variety of materials for recycling – and opening two additional days per week enhances customer access to the numerous recycling opportunities at the station, including:

• Appliances,
• Cardboard,
• Comingled recyclables (paper, cans, glass bottles and jars, plastic containers),
• Fluorescent bulbs and tubes,
• Scrap metal,
• Textiles,
• Clean wood (untreated/unpainted/unstained), and
• Yard waste.

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