The Maple Valley Earth Day Fair started in 2024 to celebrate Earth Month in April by promoting environmental practices and activities for kids and adults, and to raise general awareness of local sustainability resources. This is a fun and free interactive event to bring our community together to protect the nature around us.

FREE Household Hazardous Waste Dropoff 

-- Located in the main Lake Wilderness Park Parking Lot

-- Accepted materials found here.

-- *Latex paint cannot be accepted at this event*

-- **To allow for more households to drop off materials, containers larger than 1 gallon cannot be accepted at this event.**

FREE lead testing for common household items

-- Located at the King County Hazardous Waste booth within the Earth Day Fair

-- **Each household can bring up to 3 items for testing**

-- Visit the booth and enter to win an Instant Pot!

Compost giveaways from Cedar Grove

Touch-a-Truck with Recology Cleanscapes

Family Story Time (at the Arboretum StoryWalk)

Activities for kids of all ages

Informational booths from

-- City of Maple Valley

-- Nature Vision

-- Green River Coalition

-- South King County Tool Library

-- King County Noxious Weeds

-- King County Hazardous Waste

-- Recology

-- King Conservation District

-- Tahoma High School Green Team

-- Cedar Grove

-- Soos Creek Water and Sewer District

-- Cedar River Water and Sewer District

-- Covington Water District

-- Maple Valley Farmer's Market

-- Elk Run Farms

-- Master Gardeners 

Questions? Contact Halley Kimball at [email protected].