The Permanent Facility is open every Tuesday and Saturday from 9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

For Cowlitz and Wahkiakum County Residents Only

Where: Cowlitz County’s Household Hazardous Waste Facility located at the Waste Control Transfer Station, 1150 3rd Avenue in Longview

Bring: Pesticides, paint, thinners, solvents, motor oil, antifreeze, pool chemicals, hobby chemicals, cleaning products, toxic, corrosive, or flammable material - Refer to the information below for additional ways to dispose of used motor oil and antifreeze!

Don’t Bring: Material from businesses (including farms, schools, and churches)*, unlabeled products, empty paint cans or containers, leaking containers, explosives, ammunition, radioactive material, or biological/infectious material

Limit: Total volume cannot exceed 25 gallons or 200 pounds and individual items larger than 5 gallons or 50 pounds without prior approval

* If you have material from businesses (including farms, schools, and churches) please call and request information on business-generated hazardous waste.

• Keep material in original container

• Store material so it will not tip or spill during transport

• Don’t transport material in passenger compartment of vehicle

• Don’t bring children or pets

• No smoking while on site

If you cannot attend these free collection events, save your material for the next mobile collection day. Click or call for the next date and time.

Used Motor Oil & Antifreeze

CONGRATULATIONS COWLITZ COUNTY - In 2008, you recycled 39,164 gallons of used motor oil!

The Cowlitz County Department of Public Works sponsors the recycling of used motor oil and antifreeze at several locations throughout the County. Click here to view a list of recycling locations and for steps on how to properly recycle used oil and antifreeze .

Used motor oil can be re-refined into a good, as-new lubrication oil.  Oil never wears out, it just gets dirty. Here are some facts concerning the recycling of used oil:

• Recycling used oil could reduce national petroleum imports by 25.5 million barrels of oil per year, and save much of the energy to process it.

• More than 4.5 million gallons of used oil are discarded every year in Washington State.  Used oil is the largest single source of oil pollution (over 40 percent) in our nation’s waterways.  Most is dumped by do-it-yourselfers.

• Recycling used oil in Cowlitz County is easy.  Place oil in a clean, sealed container (i.e. milk jug) and take to the nearest participating collection site listed above and drain into the collection tank.

Recycling sites are intended for the disposal of oil and antifreeze from residential households. Businesses requiring the disposal of oil and antifreeze can contact the Transfer Station at (360) 425-4302.

List of Used Oil/Antifreeze Recycling Locations

For more information call the Cowlitz County Solid Waste Division, Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. at (360) 577-3125.

Sponsored by Cowlitz County Department of Public Works and the Washington State Department of Ecology. Special thanks to our volunteers from WSU Cooperative Extension Master Composter and Master Gardener Programs. Contact the WSU Co-Op program for composting and gardening information and area workshops.