What’s Accepted?
Yes, these items can go in your cart:
- Tree trimmings
- Clean wood waste, unpainted and unpreserved lumber and woodwaste, particle board, plywood, and pallets
- Leaves
- Grass Clippings
- Garden Residue
- Landscape Debris, including tree trunks, stumps, limbs and shrubs
- Food scraps, including dairy, meat, and bones
- Paper Towels and Napkins
- Coffee filters
- Cardboard
- Other organic materials
No, do not dispose of these in your cart:
- Plastic bags or bottles
- Fruit stickers
- Wax or plastic lined paper cups
- Cork
- Glossy paper materials
- Biosolids, biosolid derived products, animal manure, or sewage
- Rocks
- Gypsum Waste
- Treated wood
- Vactor wastes
You Haul Fees
We happily accept the following organic materials at our facilities in Seattle, Bellevue, Everett, Maple Valley and Woodinville.
Composting Tipping Fees
Prices for Maple Valley and Everett
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Starting September 15, 2012, Cedar Grove Composting will impose a $5.54 per ton regulatory/sorting fee for each inbound ton of commercial foodwaste or commingled residential yardwaste /foodwaste received at its Facilities. This fee will replace the contamination fees currently being accessed.
Cedar Grove reserves the right to reject any load that appears to have contamination in excess of acceptable levels to meet the standards established by WAC 173-350.

