RECYCLING

Cardboard

Cardboard must be clean and flattened.

Please use the large 30 yard container to put your flattened cardboard into.  If you are a senior or disabled, you may use the regular single stream recycling containers for your flattened cardboard.  Please no greasy cardboard.

Please remove any bags or Styrofoam packing from the boxes as those are not recyclable.

Single Stream Recycling

Single-stream items: newspapers, plastic bottles and jars (Nos. 1-7), tin cans, magazines, catalogs, cereal boxes, egg cartons, and clean uncoated paper.   These can all be mixed together in the designated bins.

Coated paper products such as milk cartons do NOT qualify in the recycling program.  Other things that can NOT be recycled in our single stream program include plastic wrap, Styrofoam, clothing, plastic items that are not bottles or jars (such as hangers and toys), items that are combinations of metal, plastic, and/or paper, juice pouches, ceramics, wood and other yardwaste, drinking glasses and mirrors.

Glass in any form is not accepted in the single stream recycling program.  The Whitman County Landfill has a collection point there that accepts glass for recycling.  Please do not put any glass in the single stream recycle containers as it is viewed as a contaminant and will reduce the recyclability of the other material.

No plastic bags!  Please recycle your plastic bags at Dissmores, Safeway, Wal-Mart and other fine stores in our community.

Aluminum cans

We are currently paying $0.20 per pound cash or $0.25 per pound credit to a Pullman Disposal Service account for aluminum cans.  Our buyback hours for aluminum cans are from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm, Monday through Thursday. Please stop by our office so we can assist you with your buyback.

Only aluminum cans will be accepted.  We cannot take aluminum in other forms – such as foil, pie pans, doors and car parts.  Aluminum must be clean and the cans must be empty.  Cans that have liquid in them will not be accepted.

Electronic Waste

Please see our office staff to sign-in before recycling your electronic waste. Please do not drop off your e-waste without checking in! E-waste left unattended could possibly be taken by non-PDS staff… leave at your own risk.  Never leave a CPU with a functioning hard-drive unattended!

TV’s, monitors, CPU’s, laptops, cell phones, and E-readers are all accepted at no charge at part of the state’s E-Cycle recycling program.  Other types of e-waste such as printers and scanners do not qualify for the E-Cycle program and are assessed $0.50 per pound (plus tax) fee to recycle.

Please refer to our page on e-waste for more information.

To see where other electronic waste items are collected check out the Washington State Department of Ecology’s site here.

Shredding

Document Destruction is available at Pullman Disposal from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm, Monday through Thursday, at our main office at 135 NW Harold Drive in Pullman.

Shredding is $0.50 per pound, plus tax.

Please call us if you have any questions.

Rechargable battery recycling

We accept lithium ion, nickel metal hydride, lead-acid, and rechargeable batteries. We do not accept alkaline household batteries – they should be thrown in the garbage.

Please bring all batteries to our office staff inside our main office.