Shoreline Recycling & Transfer Station

How fun to get to review a «recycling & transfer station,» which is a wonderfully bureaucratic euphemism for «the dump.» It’s a little out of the way… I guess the NIMBYs in Shoreline aren’t as vociferous as NIMBYs elsewhere. But once I got there, I was super impressed by how easy, orderly, and frankly how non-​stinky it was… I guess it helps to go there in the winter rather than on a hot day in the middle of August. Maybe I should return in 6 months and see if it gets as ripe as the old Fremont Dump – oops, I mean, the old Fremont Recycling & Transfer Station – used to get.
Anyway, the staffers at the little check-​in booth were super friendly, and the painted lines on the pavement led me right to the spot I needed to go. It’s a bummer that yard/​green waste isn’t free disposal – my haul cost me $ 12 – but the County’s gotta eat I suppose. There is also an oddly majestic mural on one wall with waste being processed and Mount Rainier rising gloriously in the background.
Thumbs up to this place for taking care of stuff that nobody else wants to deal with.

My first trip to the dump, so I don’t have anything to compare to. But I got to toss my old mattress and box spring into the pit, and it only cost me $ 22!

This place is exactly what it should be. It’s well-​organized, cleaner than many garbage and recycling disposal sites, and has a cute atmosphere. There are even cute, colorful lines on the ground to help guide vehicles to the correct place to dispose of different things!
Will definitely return!

Quick and easy… just like I like my men.
This is my boyfriends deal, he’s 6’5 and throws shit over the edge like the Hulk. I can tell the other men are jealous the distance he gets when he throws trash bags. There is some unspoken competition here. OK men, whatever.
My trash cans do shutter when they look at him, though!
Here’s the deal:
1)Drive up, weigh your car/​trailer
2)Drive to the trash mecca, make sure your windows are down as you go by the huge colored tires.
3)Pick an empty stall, be confident in your reserve park skillz– seriously you’ll look like an idiot doing the Austin Powers, do it right the first time
4)Throw/chuck/hurl/catapult shit over the edge or sweep it into the hole
5)Do not throw shit they don’t want over the edge (like computers) you’ll get fined! You aren’t that slick. TRUE STORY: My boyfriends dad hired a guy who threw some computers monitors over the edge by mistake, got fined $ 100’s for that shit.
6)This time pick up the speed as you go by the HUGE colored semi truck tires– windows down
7)Drive around the loop and get weighed again & pay
They do take Visa*

Wow. How much fun was this place when my dad used to take me here as a wee child?
Sooooo Muuuuuch Fuuuun.
I always expected him to back right over the edge. So scary!
One time I threw a rock and broke a fishtank that had survived the drop.
Flies everywhere.
Fun fun fun!

The recycling area is so clean you could eat off the cement.
Seriously, sit right down and have a nice meal right there.
Okay, maybe not.
We came here a LOT while the North Seattle Recycling & Transfer Station was getting revamped, and sometime we still go here instead for reasons that only Chris knows.
He’s in charge of recycling. I’m just along for the ride.

The ease of getting here is awesome. However, the recycling are reminds me of The Hills Have Eyes, and I am not just referring to the landscape.
It is always a pleasure to see if some dumba$$ is going to back into me while I am emptying my load. Gotta love the danger.
And really, I do not read enough so even though there never seems to be more than 3 cars in line, I know I am good for a couple of chapters every visit as people struggle to pay their bill.
Good Times.

AKA, THE DUMP…
Okay, so it’s no longer PC to call these places a «dump» now they are referred to as Recycling AND Transfer stations… what’eva…
Yeah, they cleaned up with place, they forced me for 18 or so months to go to Lynn-​hood to make my dump runs and finally once they open up, I realize, this place sucks… Yeah sure, it’s a «green» building, solar panels, reclaimed water, blah, blah, blah…
I’m 5’5″ if I’m lucky, on a good day I’m 5’5″ and a half… Whoever designed the unloading area should be taken out back and well, never be seen from again. Back in the day, they had about 2 – 3 cables across the unloading area, you know to hold back the balance-​challenged from falling into the «pit of no return». Now they have a 3 or 4 foot high cement wall that you have to hoist your crap over to get it into the pit! WTH! Who thought up this brain-​child??? Someone on CRACK or someone who has never used a dump before! I can’t even pull my truck up to the edge and push stuff off the bed directly into the pit, if some of the crap falls off, I now have to jump down and find one of the tiny little slots in the wall to shove that crap into the pitl!
Why 3 stars you ask, I don’t know, I guess it’s cool now they separate the «green» materials from the everyday crap. Before you’d just toss lawn waste and tree branches right in with the broken toilets and other crap…(Sorry no pun intended…)
You know what else bugs me? There is only 1 line to check out and pay at, heck I’m getting pissed, I’m going to knock this down another star…