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VANCOUVER, WA

Vancouver, WA Garbage & Recycling Extra Services Overview

The City of Vancouver, WA offers a range of extra garbage and recycling services for residents with active Waste Connections accounts, including a free annual bulky item pickup of up to five large items and a separate one-time appliance pickup where items are recycled if scheduled directly. Seasonal programs provide added convenience, such as spring cleanup coupons for yard debris and tires (valid April through June) and fall leaf disposal coupons (available October through December). Residents are also encouraged to properly recycle batteries at designated drop-off sites, with specific limits on size and quantity, and to safely dispose of household hazardous waste—such as automotive fluids, cleaners, paints, and pesticides—at local hazardous waste facilities, with varying hours that require advance confirmation.

Bulky Item Pickup Day

City of Vancouver residents with active Waste Connections garbage service can use the free bulky item pickup program to dispose of up to five items too large or bulky to fit in a garbage cart. Customers are eligible for one curbside pickup each calendar year of up to five items. Sign up on RecycleRight.

Appliance disposal

In addition to the Bulky Item Pickup, an annual one-time free appliance pickup is available to single-family households as part of regular Vancouver Solid Waste services.

To arrange for an appliance pickup under our regular program, you must schedule directly with Waste Connections by calling 360-892-5370 or emailing customerhelp@wcnx.org. The appliances collected as part of the regular appliance pickup option will be recycled.

Appliances collected as part of the Bulky Item Pickup Day will be sent to the landfill.

Cleanup Coupons

SPRING COUPONS
A set of coupons for free spring cleanup of yard debris and tires is provided to each single-family residential customer within the City of Vancouver with an active Waste Connections account. Coupons are valid for three months, from April 1 through June 30.
Get Your Spring Coupons
FALL COUPONS
To help residents take care of fallen leaves, we offer fall leaf coupons for free disposal at designated drop-off sites. Vancouver and Clark County residents can redeem the free leaf disposal coupons from October 1 through December 31. This coupon is for leaves only.
Get Your Fall Coupons

All cell phones: regardless of size, make, model or age.

Size limits: Lithium-ion batteries must be no larger than 300Wh and no battery can weigh more than 11lbs.

Quantity limits: Drop-offs limited to 10 batteries per day.

Does not accept: Vaping or e-cigarette devices/products, batteries from businesses, batteries larger than 300Wh, vehicle batteries, battery-containing products (except cell phones), other hazardous waste, damaged, defective or recalled batteries.
(see list of sites online)

Recycle Batteries

Do not put these in your curbside garbage or recycling. You may drop off this item for recycling. CALL BEFORE YOU DRIVE!

ACCEPTED BATTERIES

Rechargeable batteries:

  • Lithium ion (Li-Ion)
  • nickel-metal hydride (NiMH)
  • nickel-cadmium (NiCd)
  • small sealed lead acid (SSLA/Pb)
  • nickel zinc (Ni-Zn)

Single-use batteries:

  • Alkaline
  • lithium primary
  • silver oxide
  • zinc-air
  • zinc-carbon,
  • zinc-chloride (Commonly known as AA, AAA, 9V, D-cell, coin and button cell)

 

Other Products

Household Hazardous Waste: To identify potentially hazardous products, look for words on the product label such as poison, danger, warning, caution, or flammable.

Most household hazardous wastes are generated from one of the following categories:

Automotive Products: oil, antifreeze, gasoline, brake and transmission fluid

Household Cleaners: oven cleaners, drain cleaners, disinfectants, laundry products

Paints and Solvents: latex and oil-based paint, thinners, varnishes, wood preservatives

Poisons/Pesticides: fungicides, insecticides, herbicides and rodenticides

 

DAYS AND HOURS FOR FREE HHW DROP OFF VSARIES – CHECK LOCATIONS AND CALL BEFORE YOUMAKETHE DRIVE 

Central Hazardous Waste Facility
11034 NE 117th Avenue
Vancouver, WA 98686
Phone: 360-256-8482

West Van Hazardous Waste Facility
6601 NW Old Lower River Road
Vancouver, WA 98660
Phone: 360-737-1727

[All information above taken from the city website at https://www.cityofvancouver.us/ on 3/20/2026]