Chapter
SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT—REDUCTION AND RECYCLING
- RCW 70A.205.005— Legislative finding—Priorities—Goals.
- RCW 70A.205.007— Landfill disposal of organic materials—Goal.
- RCW 70A.205.010— Purpose.
- RCW 70A.205.015— Definitions.
- RCW 70A.205.020— Environmental excellence program agreements—Effect on chapter.
- RCW 70A.205.025— Standards for solid waste handling—Areas—Landfill location.
- RCW 70A.205.030— Inert waste landfills.
- RCW 70A.205.035— Implementation of standards—Assessment—Analyses—Proposals.
- RCW 70A.205.040— County comprehensive solid waste management plan—Joint plans—Requirements when updating—Duties of cities.
- RCW 70A.205.045— County and city comprehensive solid waste management plans—Contents.
- RCW 70A.205.050— County and city comprehensive solid waste management plans—Levels of service, reduction and recycling.
- RCW 70A.205.055— County and city comprehensive solid waste management plans—Review and approval process.
- RCW 70A.205.060— County and city comprehensive solid waste management plans—Review by department of agriculture.
- RCW 70A.205.065— Utilities and transportation commission to review local plan's assessment of cost impacts on rates.
- RCW 70A.205.070— Technical assistance for plan preparation—Guidelines—Informational materials and programs.
- RCW 70A.205.075— Maintenance of plans—Review, revisions—Implementation of source separation programs.
- RCW 70A.205.080— Financial aid to counties and cities.
- RCW 70A.205.085— Matching requirements.
- RCW 70A.205.090— Contracts with counties to assure proper expenditures.
- RCW 70A.205.100— Local board of health regulations to implement the comprehensive plan—Section not to be construed to authorize counties to operate system.
- RCW 70A.205.105— Local health departments may contract with the department of ecology.
- RCW 70A.205.110— Solid waste disposal facility siting—Site review—Local solid waste advisory committees—Membership.
- RCW 70A.205.115— Private businesses involvement in source separated materials—Local solid waste advisory committee to examine.
- RCW 70A.205.120— Permit for solid waste handling facility—Required.
- RCW 70A.205.125— Permit for solid waste handling facility—Applications, fee.
- RCW 70A.205.130— Permit for solid waste disposal site or facilities—Review by department—Appeal of issuance—Validity of permits issued after June 7, 1984.
- RCW 70A.205.135— Permit for solid waste handling facility—Renewal—Appeal—Validity of renewal—Review fees.
- RCW 70A.205.140— Permit for solid waste disposal site or facilities—Suspension.
- RCW 70A.205.150— Exemption from solid waste permit requirements—Medication disposal.
- RCW 70A.205.155— Hearing—Appeal—Denial, suspension—When effective.
- RCW 70A.205.160— Solid waste collection companies—Notice of changes in tipping fees and disposal rate schedules.
- RCW 70A.205.165— Landfill disposal facilities—Reserve accounts required by July 1, 1987—Exception—Rules.
- RCW 70A.205.170— Waste generated outside the state—Findings.
- RCW 70A.205.175— Waste generated outside the state—Solid waste disposal site facility reporting requirements—Fees.
- RCW 70A.205.180— Financial aid to jurisdictional health departments—Applications—Allocations.
- RCW 70A.205.185— Financial aid to jurisdictional health departments—Matching funds requirements.
- RCW 70A.205.190— Diversion of recyclable material—Penalty.
- RCW 70A.205.195— Unlawful to dump or deposit solid waste without permit—Penalties—Litter cleanup restitution payment.
- RCW 70A.205.200— Name appearing on waste material—Presumption.
- RCW 70A.205.205— Disposal of sewage sludge or septic tank sludge prohibited—Exemptions—Uses of sludge material permitted.
- RCW 70A.205.210— Duties of department—State solid waste management plan—Assistance—Coordination—Tire recycling.
- RCW 70A.205.215— Additional powers and duties of department.
- RCW 70A.205.220— Department to cooperate with public and private departments, agencies, and associations.
- RCW 70A.205.225— Department authorized to disburse referendum 26 (RCW 43.83.330) fund for local government solid waste projects.
- RCW 70A.205.230— Department authorized to disburse funds under RCW 43.83.350 for local government solid waste projects.
- RCW 70A.205.235— Hazardous substance remedial actions—Procedural requirements not applicable.
- RCW 70A.205.240— Determination of best solid waste management practices—Department to develop method to monitor waste stream—Collectors to report quantity and quality of waste—Confidentiality of proprietary information.
- RCW 70A.205.245— Solid waste stream analysis.
- RCW 70A.205.250— Solid waste stream evaluation.
- RCW 70A.205.255— Analysis and evaluation to be incorporated in state solid waste management plan.
- RCW 70A.205.260— Solid waste—Beneficial uses—Permitting requirement exemptions.
- RCW 70A.205.265— Solid waste handling permit—Exemption from requirements—Application of section—Rules.
- RCW 70A.205.270— Composting of bovine and equine carcasses—Guidelines—Exemption from solid waste handling rules.
- RCW 70A.205.275— Rules—Department "deferring" to other permits—Application of section.
- RCW 70A.205.280— Penalty.
- RCW 70A.205.285— Construction.
- RCW 70A.205.290— Qualified anaerobic digesters exempt from permitting requirements of chapter—Definitions.
- RCW 70A.205.300— Transporters—Definition—Registration required—Penalties.
- RCW 70A.205.310— Transporters—Delivery of recyclable materials to transfer station or landfill prohibited—Records—Penalty.
- RCW 70A.205.320— Damages.
- RCW 70A.205.330— Solid waste recyclers—Notice—Report—Penalty.
- RCW 70A.205.340— Financial assurance requirements.
- RCW 70A.205.400— Disposal of vehicle tires outside designated area prohibited—Penalty—Exemption.
- RCW 70A.205.405— Fee on the retail sale of new replacement vehicle tires. (Effective until January 1, 2026.)
- RCW 70A.205.410— Fee on the retail sale of new replacement vehicle tires—Failure to collect, pay to department—Penalties.
- RCW 70A.205.415— Waste tire removal account.
- RCW 70A.205.420— Waste tire removal account—Use—Information required to be posted to department's website.
- RCW 70A.205.425— Waste tire removal account—Use of moneys—Transfer of any balance in excess of one million dollars to the motor vehicle fund. (Effective until January 1, 2026.)
- RCW 70A.205.430— Disposition of fee. (Effective until January 1, 2026.)
- RCW 70A.205.435— Cooperation with department to aid tire recycling.
- RCW 70A.205.440— Waste tires—Definitions.
- RCW 70A.205.445— Waste tires—License for transport or storage business—Requirements.
- RCW 70A.205.450— Waste tires—Violation of RCW 70A.205.445—Penalty.
- RCW 70A.205.455— Waste tires—Contracts with unlicensed persons prohibited.
- RCW 70A.205.460— Limitations on liability.
- RCW 70A.205.500— Educational material promoting household waste reduction and recycling.
- RCW 70A.205.505— Battery disposal—Restrictions—Violators subject to fine—"Vehicle battery" defined.
- RCW 70A.205.510— Identification procedure for persons accepting used vehicle batteries.
- RCW 70A.205.515— Requirements for accepting used batteries by retailers of vehicle batteries—Notice.
- RCW 70A.205.520— Retail core charge.
- RCW 70A.205.525— Vehicle battery wholesalers—Obligations regarding used batteries—Noncompliance procedure.
- RCW 70A.205.530— Department to distribute printed notice—Issuance of warnings and citations—Fines.
- RCW 70A.205.535— Rules.
- RCW 70A.205.540— Source separated organic solid waste collection services—Fees—Exceptions—Rule making.
- RCW 70A.205.545— Certain businesses must arrange for organic materials management services—Enforcement authority—Requirements—Limitations of this section—Penalties—Definitions.
- RCW 70A.205.550— Data to support the goals of the Washington center for sustainable food management—Voluntary reporting protocols.
- RCW 70A.205.600— Solid waste incineration or energy recovery facility—Environmental impact statement requirements.
- RCW 70A.205.605— Incineration of medical waste.
- RCW 70A.205.610— Sharps waste—Drop-off sites—Pharmacy return program.
- RCW 70A.205.615— Closure of energy recovery and incineration facilities—Recordkeeping requirements.
- RCW 70A.205.620— Paper conservation program—Paper recycling program.
- RCW 70A.205.700— Develop and establish objectives and strategies for the reuse and recycling of construction aggregate and recycled concrete materials.
- RCW 70A.205.710— Composting food and yard wastes—Grants and study.
- RCW 70A.205.715— Food waste reduction—Goal—Plan—Definitions.
- RCW 70A.205.720— Development of standards for the management of compostable products—Process—Report to the legislature—Stakeholder advisory committee. (Expires July 1, 2028.)
- RCW 70A.205.730— Cooperative program—State and local government.
- RCW 70A.205.740— Enforcement authority—Penalties.
- RCW 70A.205.750— Collection bins—Color coding requirements.
- RCW 70A.205.760— Multifamily residential buildings—Requirements for organic materials waste and recycling collection containers.
- RCW 70A.205.900— Authority and responsibility of utilities and transportation commission not changed.
- RCW 70A.205.901— Application of chapter—Collection and transportation of recyclable materials by recycling companies or nonprofit entities—Reuse or reclamation.
- RCW 70A.205.902— Application of chapter—Steel slag.