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City collection A sofa or chair is named on the city bulky item list, so it leaves through the same pickup service as a mattress or an appliance. $37 for the first bulky item in a city pickup, with 15 dollars for each additional item. Available to City of Olympia garbage customers, with the charge added to the utility bill after the pickup is arranged at 360.753.8368 option 2.
City collection Mattresses and box springs are named on the city bulky item list, with a limit of six per haul per day. $37 for the first mattress or box spring in a city pickup, with 15 dollars for each additional item. Available to City of Olympia garbage customers, with the charge added to the utility bill after the pickup is arranged at 360.753.8368 option 2 and a limit of six mattresses or box springs per haul per day.
City collection Washers, dryers, microwaves and other non-refrigerated appliances are on the city bulky list, while a refrigerator, freezer or air conditioner is refused by the city and goes to the county center. A non-refrigerated appliance is charged as a bulky item at 37 dollars for the first item and 15 dollars for each additional item on the utility bill, while a refrigerator, freezer or air conditioning unit is not picked up at all and is charged the county garbage rate at the Thurston County Waste and Recovery Center plus an 18 dollar per item special handling fee. Confirm the route at 360.753.8368 before the unit leaves the house.
City collection Household garbage goes out in the city cart on the every other week schedule, and anything that does not fit with the lid closed is charged as overflow. $6.79 per overflow tag for an extra bag that does not fit inside the cart. City of Olympia garbage customers, with the tag purchased from Utility Billing at 360.753.8340 before the collection day. Cart rates and the amounts on your account come from the residential rate sheet and are billed on the bi-monthly utility bill.
The highest first-item price applies once. Every remaining item uses its additional-item price. Loading, transportation and disposal are included. Applicable sales tax is shown before payment.
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The local disposal guide
Will the city take it?
Olympia collects its own garbage, recycling and organics through Waste ReSources, which the city describes as the exclusive garbage and refuse hauler inside the city limits, with garbage and recycling every other week and organics every other Monday. The city also runs an on-call bulky item service, so mattresses, box springs, sofas, chairs, washers and dryers, microwaves, non-refrigerated appliances, carpet rolls and tires and rims are picked up for a published per-item charge added to the utility bill, while refrigerators, freezers and air conditioners, concrete, dirt, brick, long pipe, paint, solvents, motor oil and asbestos are refused. Household chemicals go free to the county HazoHouse in Lacey, televisions and computers recycle free through E-Cycle Washington, and everything else from a clean out can be driven to the Thurston County Waste and Recovery Center for the published garbage, construction or yard waste rate.
The city runs an on-call bulky item service, so a couch, mattress, appliance, carpet roll or set of tires is collected at the address instead of going in the cart.
City cost & eligibility
$37 for the first bulky item in a city pickup, with 15 dollars for each additional item. Available to City of Olympia garbage customers, with the charge added to the regular utility bill after the pickup is arranged at 360.753.8368 option 2. Taxes are added to the published rate.
When & how
Arrange the pickup with Waste ReSources at 360.753.8368 option 2 before the items go out, and keep the load in a spot the collection crew can reach.
Get it ready
Keep bulky items out of dumpsters and waste enclosures, because they fill containers and damage compactors. The published list covers mattresses, box springs, sofas, chairs, washers and dryers, microwaves, non-refrigerated appliances, carpet rolls and tires and rims, while refrigerators, freezers, air conditioners, cement, long pipe, dirt, brick, rocks, paint, solvents, motor oil and hazardous material including asbestos are refused.
A sofa or chair is named on the city bulky item list, so it leaves through the same pickup service as a mattress or an appliance.
City cost & eligibility
$37 for the first bulky item in a city pickup, with 15 dollars for each additional item. Available to City of Olympia garbage customers, with the charge added to the utility bill after the pickup is arranged at 360.753.8368 option 2.
When & how
Arrange the pickup with Waste ReSources at 360.753.8368 option 2, then leave the piece in the spot you agreed for the collection.
Get it ready
Offer working furniture to a thrift store first, because the city lists donation as the first option, then keep anything left out of the dumpster and waste enclosure and clear of the containers so the crew can reach it.
Mattresses and box springs are named on the city bulky item list, with a limit of six per haul per day.
City cost & eligibility
$37 for the first mattress or box spring in a city pickup, with 15 dollars for each additional item. Available to City of Olympia garbage customers, with the charge added to the utility bill after the pickup is arranged at 360.753.8368 option 2 and a limit of six mattresses or box springs per haul per day.
When & how
Call Waste ReSources at 360.753.8368 option 2 to arrange the pickup, and keep the bedding in the reachable spot you agreed for the collection day.
Get it ready
Keep the mattress out of the cart, the dumpster and the waste enclosure. The county publishes no separate mattress line for its own sites, so confirm how a mattress would be charged at 360.867.2491 before hauling one to the Waste and Recovery Center.
Washers, dryers, microwaves and other non-refrigerated appliances are on the city bulky list, while a refrigerator, freezer or air conditioner is refused by the city and goes to the county center.
City cost & eligibility
A non-refrigerated appliance is charged as a bulky item at 37 dollars for the first item and 15 dollars for each additional item on the utility bill, while a refrigerator, freezer or air conditioning unit is not picked up at all and is charged the county garbage rate at the Thurston County Waste and Recovery Center plus an 18 dollar per item special handling fee. Confirm the route at 360.753.8368 before the unit leaves the house.
When & how
Arrange a bulky pickup for a non-refrigerated unit, or haul a refrigerant unit to the county center at 2420 Hogum Bay Road NE in Lacey, which is the only site that takes it.
Get it ready
Empty the appliance and keep it out of the cart, the dumpster and the waste enclosure. A refrigerant unit needs its own trip because the county adds a special handling fee for it, and the city refuses to collect it.
Televisions, monitors and computers recycle free through E-Cycle Washington, and they are not on the city bulky item list.
City cost & eligibility
Free at an E-Cycle Washington collection site for computers, monitors and televisions, or charged at the county center as garbage with an 18 dollar per item handling fee for a television or monitor. The HazoHouse refuses electronics outright.
When & how
Drop the device at a listed E-Cycle site such as the Goodwill store at 400 Cooper Point Road SW, open daily, or A+ Computers at 2724 Pacific Avenue SE on Tuesday through Friday afternoons, or pay the county rate at the Waste and Recovery Center in Lacey.
Get it ready
Keep electronics out of the garbage cart and the recycling cart, call ahead before dropping off a large or heavy television, and expect the county sites to handle electronics as garbage rather than as recycling.
Construction material is not on the city collection routes, so debris goes to the county center or into a rented container.
City cost & eligibility
From $21 per load under 300 pounds, then 136 dollars per ton prorated for construction and demolition debris at the Thurston County Waste and Recovery Center. Thurston County facilities are for people who live in the county and county businesses, card payments carry a 2 dollar processing fee, and asbestos containing material needs a permit from the Olympic Region Clean Air Agency and is charged separately. The city also rents containers for the same debris at published rates.
When & how
Haul the load to the county center at 2420 Hogum Bay Road NE in Lacey, open weekdays 7 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. and weekends 8 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., or rent a container through Waste ReSources at 360.753.8368 option 2.
Get it ready
Keep construction debris out of the garbage cart and cover the load for the drive, because Washington law requires a secured load. Concrete, asphalt, rock, brick and long lengths of pipe are refused as regular garbage, roofing debris and asbestos carry their own county rates, and fixtures and remodeling debris count as construction material.
Exercise machines are not on the published city bulky list, so whether the city collects one depends on what Waste ReSources accepts, and the county center takes the load as garbage.
City cost & eligibility
No published bulky rate names exercise equipment, so ask Waste ReSources at 360.753.8368 option 2 whether the machine rides the same first item and additional item charge, or plan on the county garbage rate at the Thurston County Waste and Recovery Center, which starts at 21 dollars under 300 pounds and then 136 dollars per ton prorated.
When & how
Arrange a pickup with Waste ReSources, or drive the load to the county center on Hogum Bay Road in Lacey during its open hours.
Get it ready
Take the machine apart as far as it will come, keep the console and cord with the frame, and leave the load in a reachable spot for the crew or secured for the drive.
Tires and rims are on the city bulky item list, and the county center takes passenger tires at the garbage rate with a five tire daily limit.
City cost & eligibility
$37 for the first bulky item in a city pickup when tires and rims are part of the load, with 15 dollars for each additional item. City of Olympia garbage customers, with the charge added to the utility bill. The county center also takes passenger tires at the regular garbage rate, limited to five tires per vehicle per day, and recycles them when they are kept separate from other material.
When & how
Add the tires to a city bulky pickup through 360.753.8368 option 2, or take up to five passenger tires per vehicle to the county center and unload them into the designated area yourself.
Get it ready
Keep the tires separate from the rest of the load if you drive them to the county center, because separated tires are recycled, and stay within the five tire daily limit per vehicle.
Household chemicals go free to the county HazoHouse in Lacey, with daily limits set per material.
City cost & eligibility
No charge. Free for people who live in Thurston County at the HazoHouse drop off, with businesses registering and paying fees. Limits run per vehicle per day: five gallons for automotive products, chemicals and cleaners, pesticides and pool or hobby chemicals, ten gallons for paint related material, ten fluorescent bulbs, and three propane containers with none larger than five gallons.
When & how
Take the material to the HazoHouse at 2420 Hogum Bay Road NE in Lacey, open daily 8 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. and closed on New Year's Day, July 4, Thanksgiving and Christmas, and use the south entrance.
Get it ready
Transport material sealed and upright in a plastic lined box, keep containers five gallons or smaller and labeled with the contents, and store acids and oxidizers apart. The HazoHouse refuses electronics, medical waste, asbestos, cooking oil, fire extinguishers, radioactive material and alkaline batteries.
Household garbage goes out in the city cart on the every other week schedule, and anything that does not fit with the lid closed is charged as overflow.
City cost & eligibility
$6.79 per overflow tag for an extra bag that does not fit inside the cart. City of Olympia garbage customers, with the tag purchased from Utility Billing at 360.753.8340 before the collection day. Cart rates and the amounts on your account come from the residential rate sheet and are billed on the bi-monthly utility bill.
When & how
Collection runs every other week under the 2026 calendar, with the pick-up day set by the route group, and carts go out with the handle facing the house and three feet of clearance on each side.
Get it ready
Bag and tie household trash, close the lid, bring the cart in after collection, and keep sidewalks, bike lanes and storm drains clear. Cart tags escalate through three notices, and after the third the cart may be left unemptied with charges applied.
Carts go out with the handle facing the house, three feet of clearance on each side, and the lid closed, because the truck arm needs an unobstructed reach. Residents are asked to bring carts in after collection and to keep sidewalks, bike lanes and storm drains clear rather than parking a cart in the street.
Material that does not fit with the lid closed is charged as overflow, with a pre-purchased tag covering one extra bag. Cart tags move through three notices, and after the third the cart may be left unemptied with charges applied, so a repeated tag is a signal to change the cart size or arrangement rather than to add bags.
Bulky items need an arrangement and a reachable spot
Call Waste ReSources at 360.753.8368 option 2 before the items go out, and keep them out of dumpsters and waste enclosures because they fill containers and damage compactors. The city asks that bulky items sit in a designated area that does not block onsite waste containers or interrupt the normal collection.
Transport household hazardous waste sealed and upright in a plastic lined box, in labeled containers of five gallons or less, with acids and oxidizers stored apart from each other. The HazoHouse is drive-through and visitors are asked not to walk into the area, and each material type has its own daily limit per vehicle.
Televisions, monitors and computers belong at an E-Cycle Washington collection site rather than in a cart or in the bulk pile, and a large or heavy television is worth a call ahead. The county's own sites handle electronics as garbage for a fee, so a free E-Cycle drop off is the route worth planning first.
Yard debris, organics and the closing drop off site
Organics collection runs every other Monday through a subscription arranged with Utility Billing, and yard debris can also be driven to the county center. The city's Saturday drop off site is closing after the property sale, with cardboard collection ended on January 31, 2026 and glass drop off extended further into 2026, so glass goes to 1000 10th Avenue SE around the clock, Yauger Park, or Concrete Recyclers on Black Lake Boulevard.
Use a permitted, accessible outdoor spot. Arrange the move out of your home, keep shared access clear and follow your confirmation’s readiness instructions. Check with your building about access or staging limits before booking.
City of Olympia Waste ReSources, with Thurston County disposal facilities
Arrange a city bulky item pickup
For a household inside the city limits with a mattress, couch, appliance, carpet roll or set of tires that should not go in the cart.
Cost & conditions
$37 for the first bulky item, with 15 dollars for each additional item in the same pickup. City of Olympia garbage customers; call Waste ReSources at 360.753.8368 option 2 to arrange the pickup and the charge is added to the utility bill.
Arrange it
Call Waste ReSources at 360.753.8368 option 2 during its 5:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. window, describe each item, and leave the items in a reachable spot away from the containers.
No refrigerators, freezers or air conditioners, and no cement, long pipe, dirt, brick, rocks, paint, solvents, motor oil or asbestos. Six mattresses or box springs is the limit per haul per day.
City of Olympia Waste ReSources, with Thurston County disposal facilities
Haul the load to the Thurston County Waste and Recovery Center
For a household that would rather drive a full load to Lacey than schedule a pickup, including a refrigerator, construction debris or a television.
Cost & conditions
From $21 per load under 300 pounds, then 136 dollars per ton prorated, with an 18 dollar per item handling fee added for a television, monitor or refrigerated appliance. Thurston County residents and county businesses; card payments carry a 2 dollar processing fee, and asbestos containing material needs a permit from the Olympic Region Clean Air Agency before it is hauled.
Arrange it
Drive to 2420 Hogum Bay Road NE in Lacey, use the north entrance for garbage and the un-tarping area to uncover the load, and pay at the scale.
Open weekdays 7 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. and weekends 8 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., closed New Year's Day, July 4, Thanksgiving and Christmas, with extra charges for televisions, monitors, refrigerated appliances, roofing debris and asbestos, and a five tire per vehicle daily limit.
City of Olympia Waste ReSources, with Thurston County disposal facilities
Recycle a television or computer free through E-Cycle Washington
For a household replacing a television, monitor, computer or laptop and looking for the free route.
Cost & conditions
No charge. Free through the state E-Cycle Washington program at listed collection sites for computers, monitors and televisions, including the Goodwill stores in Olympia and Lacey and A+ Computers in Olympia.
Arrange it
Check the E-Cycle site list for the closest collection point and its hours, and call ahead before dropping off a large or heavy television.
The county center is not a free electronics site: electronics left there are disposed of as garbage, and a television or monitor carries an 18 dollar handling fee. The HazoHouse refuses electronics outright.
City of Olympia Waste ReSources, with Thurston County disposal facilities
Take chemicals to the HazoHouse
For paint, automotive fluids, batteries, pesticides and other household chemicals that must never go in a cart.
Cost & conditions
No charge. Free for people who live in Thurston County, with businesses registering and paying fees, and a daily limit per vehicle for each material type.
Arrange it
Drive to the HazoHouse at the Waste and Recovery Center, 2420 Hogum Bay Road NE in Lacey, use the south entrance, and stay in the vehicle because the facility is drive-through.
Open daily 8 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. and closed on New Year's Day, July 4, Thanksgiving and Christmas; electronics, medical waste, asbestos, cooking oil, fire extinguishers, radioactive material and alkaline batteries are not accepted.
Household garbage, construction and demolition debris, roofing, food and yard waste, recyclables, clean clothing donations, passenger tires, refrigerated appliances, and televisions and monitors, each at the county's published rate or free for recyclables and donations.
For people who live in Thurston County and county businesses. Passenger tires are limited to five per vehicle per day and customers unload them into the designated area, televisions, monitors and refrigerated appliances carry an 18 dollar per item handling fee at this site only, and the load has to be secured and uncovered in the un-tarping area before the scales.
Monday through Friday 7 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday 8 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., closed New Year's Day, July 4, Thanksgiving and Christmas; use the north entrance for garbage.
From $21 per load under 300 pounds, then 136 dollars per ton prorated, with an 18 dollar per item handling fee for a television, monitor or refrigerated appliance. Thurston County residents and county businesses, with cash, check, debit, credit and mobile wallet payments accepted and a 2 dollar processing fee on card payments.
Automotive products, batteries under two pounds each in individual bags, chemicals and cleaners, aerosols and road flares, fluorescent bulbs, mercury containing products, paint related material, pesticides and herbicides, pool and hobby chemicals, and propane containers.
Free for people who live in Thurston County, with businesses registering and paying a fee. Containers must be five gallons or smaller and labeled, acids and oxidizers travel apart, and electronics, medical waste, asbestos, cooking oil, fire extinguishers, radioactive material and alkaline batteries are refused.
Open daily 8 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. and closed New Year's Day, July 4, Thanksgiving and Christmas; the facility is drive-through, so use the south entrance and stay in the vehicle.
No charge. Free for residents of Thurston County with the limits set per material and per vehicle each day, and a fee for businesses that register in advance.
Televisions, desktop computers, monitors, laptops and portable DVD players, working or not, recycled free through E-Cycle Washington.
Call ahead to schedule a drop off of a large or heavy television, and bring only the items the E-Cycle program covers, because this is a collection site rather than a household hazardous waste site.
Open daily 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.
No charge. Free through the state E-Cycle Washington program for the covered electronics.
Prices, timing and the details that matter at your address.
How much does pickup cost?+
Choose your items to see the exact price. A standard sofa is $79 first and $29 additional. The highest first-item price applies once; every remaining item uses its additional-item price. Loading, transportation and disposal are included. Review any applicable sales tax and the final total before payment.
Can I book a pickup for today?+
Book by 2pm at your pickup address for same-day pickup, where available. Choose from the dates shown at checkout. Your booking is for a pickup day, and we text you when your hauler is on the way.
Do my items need to be outside when I book?+
You can book while your items are still inside. Arrange any indoor carrying and have everything outside and accessible according to your confirmation. We load and haul it away from there. Contact us before booking if your property has restricted access.
How do I get a bulky item picked up in Olympia?+
Call Waste ReSources at 360.753.8368 option 2 and describe the items. Olympia is the exclusive hauler inside the city limits, so the pickup is added to the utility bill at the published first item and additional item rates. The list covers mattresses, box springs, sofas, chairs, washers and dryers, microwaves, non-refrigerated appliances, carpet rolls and tires and rims, while refrigerators, freezers and air conditioners are not picked up at all.Official guidance
Will Olympia pick up a couch?+
Yes. Sofas and chairs are on the city bulky item list, so call Waste ReSources at 360.753.8368 option 2, and the first item plus any additional item is charged to the utility account. The city asks residents and property managers not to put furniture in dumpsters or waste enclosures, because it fills containers and damages compactors, and a piece that still works can be donated instead.Official guidance
How do I get rid of a mattress in Olympia?+
Call Waste ReSources at 360.753.8368 option 2 and add the mattress or box spring to a bulky pickup, which is charged to the utility account at the published first item and additional item rates with a limit of six mattresses or box springs per haul per day. The Thurston County Waste and Recovery Center in Lacey is the other drop off, and the county publishes no separate mattress line for its own sites, so confirm the rate with the county at 360.867.2491 before loading a trailer.Official guidance
Will the city take a refrigerator or an air conditioner?+
No. The city rate sheet states that freezers, refrigerators and air conditioners are not picked up, and the city fees sheet lists refrigerant units among the material not accepted as regular garbage. They go to the Thurston County Waste and Recovery Center in Lacey, which is the only site that takes them, where the garbage rate applies plus a per item special handling fee. A washer, dryer, microwave or other non-refrigerated appliance can go on a city bulky pickup instead.Official guidance
How do I recycle a television in Olympia?+
Use the state E-Cycle Washington program, which recycles computers, monitors and televisions free at listed collection sites such as the Goodwill store on Cooper Point Road and A+ Computers on Pacific Avenue, where the site list gives the days and hours. The county's own sites are not free for electronics: at the Waste and Recovery Center a television or monitor carries the garbage rate plus a per item handling fee, and the HazoHouse does not accept electronics at all.Official guidance
Who picks up bulky items in Olympia?+
Waste ReSources, which the city describes as the exclusive garbage and refuse hauler inside the city limits, picks up bulky items for a published first item and additional item charge added to the utility bill. The list covers mattresses, box springs, sofas, chairs, washers and dryers, microwaves, non-refrigerated appliances, carpet rolls and tires and rims, with a limit of six mattresses or box springs per haul per day, and refrigerators, freezers and air conditioners are not picked up. Arrange the pickup at 360.753.8368 option 2 and keep the items out of dumpsters and waste enclosures.Official guidance
Where can I take things myself?+
The Thurston County Waste and Recovery Center at 2420 Hogum Bay Road NE in Lacey takes household garbage, construction and demolition debris, roofing, food and yard waste, recyclables, clothing donations and passenger tires, with special handling fees for televisions, monitors and refrigerated appliances. The HazoHouse at the same address takes household chemicals free for county residents, and televisions and computers are free at E-Cycle Washington collection sites such as the Goodwill store on Cooper Point Road or A+ Computers on Pacific Avenue.Official guidance
What is happening with yard waste and the Saturday drop off site?+
Organics collection is a city subscription that runs every other Monday and is arranged with Utility Billing, and yard debris can also be driven to the county center. The city's Saturday drop off site is closing because the property was sold, with cardboard collection ended on January 31, 2026 and glass drop off extended further into 2026 while alternatives are explored, so glass goes to 1000 10th Avenue SE around the clock, Yauger Park, or Concrete Recyclers on Black Lake Boulevard.Official guidance
