Follow the Waste Tour 2025

May 15, 2025

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Follow the Waste Tour 2025!
Lincoln County Solid Waste District asked our local government officials if they’d like tours of the facilities we take all the garbage, recycling, and mixed compost to on a weekly basis. We had the honor of hosting City of Lincoln City Mayor Wahlke and City of Depoe Bay Mayor Short and Councilor Poland along for the ride.
We toured Garten Services where their CEO Will Posegate showed us their Material Recovery Facility where all mixed recycling is processed and sorted out. As luck would have it, one of our amazing drivers, Lonnie West, was dumping his walking floor trailer (as seen in photo 4). Will also showed us their battery sorting area, where we saw an exploded Lithium-ion battery they had recently dealt with (photo 7).
The tour then went to Coffin Butte Landfill with Republic Services where we toured their whole facility and learned about all the ways the landfill captures the methane gas and seals the waste through different types of man-made material. We were lucky once again, as we saw one of our awesome transfer haulers, Gabe Snow, after he was on the tipper.
Lastly, we stopped at Pacific Region Compost where we take all the mixed compost. They process the product we bring them into their final product in just 60 days in “wind rows”. These wind rows heat up to 100+° and are rotated through a big machine in rows to make sure they are small enough pieces and all contamination is eradicated.
Huge thank you to all the facilities for their great tours and for our local government officials for taking the time to learn more about a huge part of the health and safety of our communities!