Spokane Waste of Energy
 Shedding Light on Spokane's overpriced Solid Waste System

  

It costs $98 a ton for waste disposal in Spokane County.

What does it cost for waste disposal in other communities?
Landfill sites     Wheelabrator WTE sites  
 Missoula MT $24.00 /ton    Tampa FL $71.00 /ton
 Bozeman MT $36.00 /ton    Pinellas County FL $37.50 /ton
 Billings MT $11.50 /ton    Hudson Falls NY $80.22 /ton
 Portland OR $63.50 /ton    Baltimore MD $60.00 /ton
 Boise ID $10.00 /ton    Spokane $98.00 /ton
 Phoenix AZ $36.25 /ton      
 Yakima WA $24.05 /ton      
 Walla Walla WA $43.25 /ton      
 Kennewick WA $68.00 /ton      
     Resident Rate Free (12 loads)      
 Seattle WA $82.50 /ton      

Congratulations Spokane, nearly the highest in the nation, over twice the national average, and
from 25 to 275 percent higher than other Wheelabrator WTE cities!

Average Tipping Fees per state and region (2001)

  Landfills Incinerators & Waste-to-Energy Plants Processing Facilities

Northeast

      

Connecticut

  51.40  59.26  67.51

Delaware

  48.57  28.26  53.74

Maine

  54.30  54.19  35.73

Maryland

  52.20  56.28  38.34

Massachusetts

  69.25  64.95  67.92

New Hampshire

  68.57  79.22  49.37

New Jersey

  57.47  54.96  68.25

New York

  67.74  66.72  49.90

Pennsylvania

  50.84  52.32  59.23

Rhode Island

  57.75  -  73.54

Vermont

  54.61  42.83 58.00

Average Northeast

  55.35  60.15  58.19

Southern

      

Alabama

  30.94  39.90  34.20

Arkansas

  24.52  18.28  25.55

District of Columbia

- - 48.56

Florida

  37.80  58.51  43.12

Georgia

  31.69  60.00  33.68

Kentucky

  31.02  -  38.26

Louisiana

  25.39  -  28.12

Mississippi

  26.52  30.00  31.56

North Carolina

  31.30  32.00  39.27

South Carolina

  32.50  59.50  28.66

Tennessee

  29.99  28.00  26.30

Virginia

  39.95  45.59  45.50

West Virginia

  35.17  -  49.14

Average Southern

  32.77  53.48  39.01

Midwest

      

Illinois

  33.88  63.82  39.32

Indiana

  30.17  27.00  38.09

Iowa

  33.46  45.00  36.85

Kansas

  28.86  -  27.92

Michigan

  33.53  54.76  37.89

Minnesota

  43.53  59.61  57.26

Missouri

  32.87  -  33.42

Nebraska

  24.91  -  34.70

North Dakota

  26.28  -  34.55

Ohio

  28.39  -  37.90

South Dakota

  27.49  -  51.30

Wisconsin

  33.75  50.36  35.28

Average Midwest

  31.92  52.79  38.73

Western

      

Arizona

  25.54  -  27.70

Colorado

  19.89  18.25  25.58

Idaho

  21.22  -  47.74

Montana

  23.51  65.00  41.39

Nevada

  10.54  -  18.21

New Mexico

  16.60  -  24.12

Oklahoma

  24.31  42.00  22.40

Texas

  22.16  57.07  31.48

Utah

  25.52  25.00  23.71

Wyoming

  19.04  -  39.21

Average Western

  21.32  40.06  26.65

Pacific

      

Alaska

  46.80 140.91  93.59

California

  33.22  36.93  40.72

Hawaii

  52.26  72.25  71.17

Oregon

  28.26  63.84  43.23

Washington

  41.17 71.68  77.36

Average Pacific

  33.84 57.15  47.10