Recycling Efforts in Colleton County

 

Aluminum Can Recycling is at the Firehouse

There is no public curbside pick-up for recycling in Colleton County, and the main reason for this is the added expense of dedicated trucks and the workers to drive them. Despite the lack of residential curbside recycling, there are still options for Colleton residents who want to recycle.

A place that takes in solid waste as well as recycling is now called A Convenience Center. Whether the recycling is single-stream, where all items are placed together in a bin, or separate stream all the recycled items will exit the County for processing. 

Checking in with the Town of Edisto Beach, Administrator Iris Hill explains their current set up. “The Town of Edisto renewed the garbage hauling contracts in 2019,” said Hill. “We were keen to start a curbside recycling program then but hit a roadblock when the cost to haul the garbage doubled. So then Town Council decided not to implement the recycling program due to the increased resources being allocated for garbage removal.”

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