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Transfer-station workers, haulers say new weekend closures are disrupting service and morale
Summary
More than a dozen King County solid waste employees told the County Council they are seeing longer hauler wait times, diverted recycling, and falling morale after the county reduced landfill availability on weekends and began a five-day haul schedule.
More than a dozen King County transfer-station workers told the County Council on March 25 that recent schedule changes — including closing the county landfill on weekends and expanding a five‑day hauling plan — have caused long truck queues, curtailed recycling options and damaged worker morale.
The employees, speaking during the committee's public-comment period, described multi-hour waits for commercial haulers, repeated preemptive station closures and recycling commodities being pushed into the landfill because trailers and hauling capacity were unavailable. “I've been in solid waste as a transportation operator for 26 years,” said Alex Nagy, a transfer-station…
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