Stove out. Cash in. Get Paid to Recycle an Eligible Wood Stove.

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For a limited time, residents of King, Kitsap, Pierce, and Snohomish Counties can receive $500 for recycling their old, polluting wood stove. Funding is limited to one project per household.

To qualify for the recycling reward, you must own your home or property, and you will be responsible for removing and transporting your old device to one of our approved recycling facilities. 

Eligible devices include:

• Wood stoves or fireplace inserts (which are wood stoves made to be installed inside a fireplace) that are uncertified or don’t meet the 2020 EPA standard.
• Free-standing manufactured fireplaces. (Built-in, zero-clearance or traditional brick fireplaces are not eligible.) 
• Wood-burning furnaces or coal-burning devices.

Your device must be in working order and can be installed or uninstalled for the recycling reward. 

Pellet stoves, indoor barrel stoves, cook stoves, and trash burners are not eligible for the reward.

If you have any questions, please contact us or call 206-343-8800 and ask for the Wood Stove Recycling team.

If you think you qualify, please complete an application.

Sign-Up

Next Steps and Additional Information

After you sign up, you will be prompted to submit several photos of your device to be reviewed for eligibility.

Once approved for the recycling program, qualified applicants will receive an Agency-issued coupon with instructions for where to take their stove for recycling, and paperwork for receiving the $500 reward. Approved recycling participants have 45 days to recycle their stove at one of our designated recycling facilities. Recycling facility locations and contact information will be provided with the recycling coupon.

Why Scrap Your Stove

• During a burn ban, it is unlawful to use uncertified wood stoves.
• Uncertified stoves release twice as much air pollution as certified stoves.
• Since 1992, only EPA-certified wood stoves and fireplace inserts can be sold in Washington.
• It is illegal to install an uncertified wood stove or insert in Washington
• It is illegal to sell, give away or exchange an uncertified wood stove unless for scrap.
• Installing an uncertified stove can also void insurance policy coverage in some instances.

Old, uncertified wood stoves and inserts are particularly polluting and inefficient. These wood stoves are no longer legal to sell, purchase, give away or re-install anywhere in Washington state due to the significant pollution they generate. Unhealthy fine particles from wood smoke pose a health risk to everyone. Children, older adults, and people with heart disease, asthma, and other lung diseases are the most at risk.

To find out if your wood stove is EPA certified, look for a label on the back or side of the stove body. If your stove is EPA certified, you will see a section on the label that looks like this:  

If it does not have this label or an EPA certification statement, your stove is an uncertified wood stove.

Since 2015, residents who live within the Tacoma-Pierce County Smoke Reductions Zone (only) are required to remove and recycle, or render inoperable, uncertified wood stoves or fireplace inserts. Learn more about the Tacoma-Pierce Stove Rule.

Cleaner Burning

While burning wood for heat, cleaner burning practices will help you breathe easier, and help prevent air quality burn bans. Learn how to generate less smoke from your wood heat, save money, and stay warm.  

Learn more about Cleaner Burning.

Review clean burning information, take our Clean Burning Challenge, and we will mail you a free Clean Burning Kit!