Solid Waste Refuse District

Name Title Phone Email
Jason Peterson District Supervisor (406) 827-3482 jpeterson@co.sanders.mt.us
Kathy Conlin Billing Clerk, Recycling Assistant (406) 827-6942 kconlin@co.sanders.mt.us
Glen E. Magera Board Member
Carol Brooker Board Member
Anthony B. Cox Board Member
Jennifer Ekberg Board Secretary (406) 827-6966 jekberg@co.sanders.mt.us

Refuse Sites

City Address Hours*
Thompson Falls 269 Airport Rd.
Thompson Falls, MT 59873
View Map >		 Thursday & Saturday: 9am – 5pm
Sunday: 1pm – 5pm
Plains 122 Old Hicks Rd
Plains, MT 59859
View Map >		 Thursday, Saturday & Sunday: 9am – 5pm
Hot Springs 38 Little Bitterroot Rd.
Hot Springs, MT 59845
View Map >		 Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday: 9am – 4pm
Heron 249 Mt. Hwy 200
Heron, MT 59844
View Map >		 Thursday: 1pm – 5pm
Saturday: 9am – 4pm
Noxon 23 Government Mountain Rd.
Noxon, MT 59853
View Map >		 Friday: 1pm – 5pm
Sunday: 9am – 4pm
Trout Creek 61 Vinson Mill Rd.
Trout Creek, MT 59874
View Map >		 Thursday & Saturday: 9am – 5pm
Sunday: 1pm – 5pm
Dixon Ravalli: North Valley Creek Rd., 1 mile from Hwy 93
View Map >
or
Charlo: Herak Rd., 1.5 miles from Hwy 212
View Map >		 Monday-Sunday: 7am – 7pm

*All Sites are CLOSED on FEDERAL HOLIDAYS.  (Sites do not have ‘make up’ days for those holidays.  We are sorry for any inconvenience that this may cause.)

Les Lantz taking the weekly recyclables from the Courthouse

Cardboard Recycle Trailer Locations

City Address
Thompson Falls TFalls Town Pump, West End of Parking, Thompson Falls, MT 59873
View Map >
Trout Creek Behind The Local Store)
Trout Creek, MT 59874

Sanders County Solid Waste Refuse District entails a Transfer Site in Thompson Falls and Roll Off Sites in Plains, Trout Creek, Noxon, and Heron. Please see forms below for schedules, forms and recycling information.

RECYCLING

SANDERS COUNTY ACTIVELY PROMOTES RECYCLING!  Due to current market conditions and high transportation costs, Sanders County is no longer able to accept plastics or paper for recycling.  Please click on the information sheet below titled ‘Current News on Recycling Plastics.’  Republic Recycling on 3207 W. Broadway in Missoula 721-1120 takes #1 and #2 plastics (transparent) as well as mixed paper.

Check out our Recycling Brochure (under ‘Information’ below) which lists the items we accept.  It also gives ideas on what to do with items we can’t take. We have recycling drives such as E-Waste, (used electronics) which occurs in early summer.  Save up your used electronics for the next event, which is generally early summer at the TF Transfer Site.  Recycling reduces the amount of refuse we haul to Missoula, and keeps the fees down!  

2014 Used Electronics Recycling Event Yielded 9.79 Tons!

Forms, Information & Helpful Links

2018 E-Waste Event Collected 2 tons of used electronics!

WHAT IF WE JUST STOPPED RECYCLING?  As a person, you would not see a difference in one day.  However, there would be a huge impact on our landfills.  On average, each person produces 4.38 lbs. of waste per day.  To figure out how much waste would go to the landfills if we quit recycling, multiply 4.38 by 7.125 billion people on earth.  That’s 31.2 BILLION pounds of waste that would go to landfills every single day.  Sanders County alone recycled 642 tons of product in 2017.  Do your part…do what you can-RECYCLE!