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Conserve Resources with Your Appliances in Salt Lake City
How to save money & energy on appliance use
When shopping for new appliances, make sure they are Energy Star certified. Energy efficient appliance use can save a household around $450 in energy costs per year as well as saving significant emissions.
Check out the Energy-Efficient Appliances page to learn how to decrease energy use and waste on all types of appliances.
There are a variety of tax credits and rebates available for purchasing energy efficient appliances. Some are offered by the state government, and some are offered by utility companies. Use this Energy Star rebate finder to help you find programs applicable for you. There are also a couple federal home energy rebate programs coming in 2024, so stay tuned for those.
Dominion Energy’s ThermWise program offers a home energy audit for $25. This includes an in-home energy efficiency analysis followed by a plan for you to decrease your energy use. I recently had this done and found it very helpful.
Rocky Mountain Power has power saving programs available, like the Time of Day program, where you decrease your electric use during the day when demand is higher. During off hours, you pay cheaper rates to run appliances like the dishwasher and washer/dryer.
Where to buy used appliances in Salt Lake City
Locally-owned used appliance stores
- Precision Appliance
- ASU Appliances
- Utah Discount Appliance Warehouse – Scratch & Dent new appliances
These stores also buy your used appliances.
Thrift stores that sell appliances
Note that Savers and DI do not accept or sell appliances.
KSL and Facebook Marketplace are also good places to buy or sell used appliances. You may be able to find free appliances on Buy Nothing or Freecycle.
Small kitchen appliances can be donated to the Road Home or other local thrift stores.
How to recycle appliances in Salt Lake City
- If purchasing a new appliance, the retailer will likely take your old one to be recycled for a fee.
- SLC’s Call2Haul bulk waste pickup program is free to SLC residents. Schedule your annual pickup and they take your old appliances for recycling. Make sure refrigerator doors are removed or taped/ belted shut before being placed out for pickup.
- Haul old appliances to the Salt Lake Valley landfill for a flat rate charge of $16. There is an additional $20 fee for refrigerators since they have to remove the freon before being recycled.
- Haul to a scrap metal recycler and get some cash to recycle old appliances. You will need to pay extra (around $20) to remove freon in order to recycle a fridge
- Hire a waste hauler like Junk King. Their website claims they are ‘Salt Lake City’s greenest service’, and that they reuse, repurpose, or recycle 60% of what they haul away.
- Recycle broken vacuums at Best Buy or A1 Vacuum Center.
Find information about electronic recycling in Salt Lake City here.