Lewis County Solid Waste Utility

ANNOUNCEMENTS for JULY 2025

Lewis County transfer stations are closed on Sundays and all major holidays: New Year's Day (Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025), Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Presidents' Day, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Independence Day, Labor Day (Monday, Sept. 1), Veterans Day (Tuesday, Nov. 11), Thanksgiving Day (Thursday, Nov. 27), Christmas Day (Thursday, Dec. 25).

MRC Tool Bucket Library Now Open!

MRC Tool Library logo draft 3-27-24

The MRC Tool Bucket Library is now open to accept members and check out tools! Please visit www.mrctoolbucketlibrary.org to learn how to become a member and browse the tool selection.

The WSU Lewis County Master Recycler Composter (MRC) Volunteers received a Public Participation Grant from the Department of Ecology to help our community practice waste reduction by supporting a repair economy. The Tool Library is just like a regular library, but with tools instead of books! The MRC Tool Bucket Library provides free or low-cost access to shared tools and other durable goods and encourages self-reliance, re-use, repair, and reduced consumption.

Membership to the tool library is available at a variety of levels. Check out the MRC Tool Bucket Library website at www.mrctoolbucketlibrary.org to learn more about membership levels, tools available, and the process for borrowing tools.

The MRC group is looking for more volunteers to help operate the MRC Tool Bucket Library. They need help with tool checkouts and returns, maintaining tools, and inputting tools into inventory.

Here's a link to a video that explains both the Repair & Sustainability Fairs and the MRC Tool Bucket Library: https://youtu.be/IQQbrZbtpO4

Here is a brochure that explains more about the MRC Tool Bucket Library.

Now that the Tool Library is open, members can borrow tools they might only need to use once or twice a year, instead of every family purchasing tools they will use infrequently and storing them (or the fact that there are families that might not be able to afford the tools).

Please call 360-520-3206 or email mrctoolbucketlibrary@gmail.com, if you have questions about the project, or are interested in volunteering.

IMPORTANT INFO:

  • Fall Community Recycle Events are being scheduled. Dates and locations are Sept. 13 at the old Winlock Drop Box between Winlock and Vader; Sept. 27 at the Lewis County (Kiona) Road Shop in Randle; Oct. 11 at the old Meskill Drop Box west of Chehalis near Doty; and Oct. 25 at the Lewis County Road Shop on Pleasant Valley Road between Napavine and Winlock. All events run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., except for sensitive document shredding. The shredding truck will be on site for each event from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Check our Community Recycle Event page here for details.
  • The WSU Lewis County Master Recycler Composter volunteers are planning a fall Repair & Sustainability Fair on Saturday, Sept. 27, at Chehalis Outfitters, 1757 N. National Ave. Volunteers will be at the event to help you with repairs on clothing and textiles, small appliances, bikes, lawnmowers, and sharpening garden tools. At previous events, the following items were repaired: a drill, a rototiller, a lawnmower, a lamp, a stuffed owl, bicycles, a serger sewing machine, a computer, several items of clothing, and more than 60 gardening tools and knives were sharpened.
  • The Lewis County Solid Waste Utility is accepting comments on the Lewis County Solid and Hazardous Waste Management Plan draft update. Washington State law, RCW 70A.205, requires that each county prepare a comprehensive solid waste management plan, and update it periodically. With collaboration from the Lewis County Solid Waste Advisory Committee -- an advisory group to the Lewis County Commissioners, each city within Lewis County, and a consulting team from Herrera Environmental, the Lewis County Solid Waste Utility has developed a draft update of the Lewis County Solid and Hazardous Waste Management Plan. The purpose of the plan is to provide a guide for solid waste, hazardous waste, material reduction, recycling, and composting in Lewis County for the next 20 years. The draft plan update is now available for public review: Lewis County Solid and Hazardous Waste Management Plan draft update, or copies can be read at one of the Timberland Libraries in Lewis County or the Toledo Community Library. Comments on the draft plan update can be submitted to swu@lewiscountywa.gov or mailed to Lewis County Solid Waste Utility, P.O. Box 180, Centralia, WA 98531.
  • Not sure whether the item you no longer want or need should be thrown away, donated or recycled? Check out Lewis County's Waste Widget, a searchable database for many household, business, and construction items.
  • Hazardous Waste Collection days at the East Lewis County Transfer Station near Morton will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. the second Thursday of each month. Residential customers can drop off left-over cleaners, lawn, garden, and pool chemicals at no charge. No businesses may drop off hazardous chemicals during this time. The next Morton collection day is Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025.
  • The Hazo Hut in Centralia is open Wednesdays and the first & third Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. (except holidays) of each month. Businesses may visit by appointment only.
  • Customers are only be permitted to drop off motor oil and antifreeze on Wednesdays and the first and third Saturday (except holidays) of each month from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., when the Hazo Hut is open. Each customer will be permitted to drop off 5 gallons of motor oil during these times. RCW 70A.224.030 limits each household to depositing 5 gallons of motor oil each day. Please see a flyer for additional community drop-off locations for motor oil.

LEWIS COUNTY TRANSFER STATIONS

Tipping fee is $120.00 per ton for municipal solid waste (garbage, which includes household and business waste, mattresses, couches, furniture, noxious weeds, construction/demolition debris, etc. It cannot include ammunition, hazardous waste or liquid waste.) The minimum fee is $20.00 for 340 pounds or less. A 3.6 percent state refuse tax, rounded using standard rounding rules, is added to all transactions.

Central Transfer Station
1411 S. Tower Avenue, Centralia, WA
Hours of Operation: Monday - Saturday, 7:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m., in-bound gates close at 5:15 p.m., Closed Sundays
360-740-1451
Payment methods are cash, check, or credit cards. $2.00 handling fee per credit, debit, or pre-paid card transaction.

Map to Central Transfer Station

Map of the Centralia Transfer Station Campus

mapa de la estación de transferencia de basura y reciclaje

East Lewis County Transfer Station
6745 U.S. Highway 12, Morton, WA (2 miles east of Morton)
Hours of Operation: Monday - Saturday, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Closed Sundays
360-496-5095
Payment methods are cash, check, or credit cards. $2.00 handling fee per credit, debit, or pre-paid card transaction.

***Lewis County transfer stations in Centralia and Morton are CLOSED Sundays and all major holidays: New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Presidents' Day, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Independence Day, Labor Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day.***

SOLID WASTE SERVICES ADMINISTRATION OFFICE

1411 S. Tower Ave., Centralia, WA 98531 (Site of the Central Transfer Station)
P.O. Box 180, Centralia, WA 98531
Office Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
360-740-1451

swu@lewiscountywa.gov

The Administration Office is closed all major holidays.