Snohomish County, WA Trash & Recycling: Bulk Item Disposal (2026)

040(4)(a) requires solid waste collection companies to offer bulky materials collection service for reuse, recycling, or disposal, and this requirement applies both inside and outside the recycling service zone, unlike ordinary curbside recycling and yard debris service which are zone-limited. The code encourages, though doesn't mandate, that haulers develop innovative and cost-effective routing so bulky pickups happen periodically throughout their entire service area rather than only on request. 020(8) defines 'bulky materials' as large items generated by residences, such as appliances, furniture, and other oversize materials, which would typically not fit into the collection containers used for recyclables, yard debris, or garbage.

Subsection (4)(b) separately lets haulers offer, at their own option, expanded recycling and yard debris service outside the mapped zones, with rates for those optional add-ons set by the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission. 080(5), the same effective date the county tied combined garbage-and-recycling rates to for multi-family buildings. Because bulky pickup sits under 'other services' rather than the zone-based recycling and yard debris rules, a hauler can't refuse a bulky item collection request by pointing to a customer's address being outside the recycling service zone; the obligation to offer the service is county-wide.