County will ban electronic waste

Effective Jan. 1, Whitman County will no longer accept electronic waste at the county transfer station between Colfax and Pullman. The ban includes computer, monitor, television sets and similar equipment.

Public Works Director Mark Storey said the state of Oregon has banned electronic waste from landfills. Refuse from the county transfer station has been hauled to a landfill near Arlington, Ore., through a contract with Waste Management, Inc.,

Currently, two places accept e-waste: Goodwill Industries’ trailer near Shopko in Pullman and Pullman Disposal.