SOFT DRINK BOTTLES & MILK JUGS
Brunswick County Recycling Sites
Now Accepting Two Types Of Plastic
BY SUSAN USHER
We rc taking some plastics
now."
That may not sound earth-shatter
ing. hut lor Brunswick County Re
cycling Coordinator Mary McCarley
the county's recent venture into
plastic recycling is a milestone she
won't forget soon.
"That's the one thing I've heard
the most concern: about since I took
this job a year and a half ago?find
ing a means of recycling plastics,"
McCarley said during a recent inter
v iew. I m really glad we're doing
this, but I wasn't going to start ac
cepting plastics until we had a viable
market for them."
The county now pays its solid
waste contractor. Waste Industries
Inc.. to accept the plastics, which the
company then resells.
Bottles of two types of plastic are
being accepted at the county's five
recycling sites These are polyethyl
ene teraphthalate (PET) or No. I
plastics, which is used to make two
liier soft drink bottles, and high-den
sity polyethylene (HOPE) or No. 2
plastics, used in making bleach and
milk jugs. However, dark colors,
such as the plastic sleeves on some
soft drink bottles, can't be used by
the company which buys the bottles
and shouldn't be taken in for recy
cling.
Consumers can tell if a plastic
bottle can be recycled by checking
the bottom for a three-arrow loop
with a number inside, McCarley
said If the number is a "I" or "2" it
can be recycled. If no number is
found on the bottom, she suggests
checking the label. Plastics need to
be sorted by number either in ad
vance, or at the recycling site.
The five recycling sites also ac
cept newspapers, rinsed and crushed
aluminum cans, and rinsed white,
clear and green glass jars with lids
removed.
Recycling station sites and hours
are as follows:
?N.C. y(U Convenience Site,
near Old Georgetown Road. 7:30
-7:30 p.m., Mon.-Sat.; II a.m.-7
p.m. Sun.;
?Ocean Isle Transfer Station, S
a.m.-4:30 p.m.. Mon.-Sat.;
?Oxpen Convenience Site, N.C.
130 East. 7:30 a.m.-7 pm.. Mon.
Sat.; 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Sun.;
?Southport Transfer Station. N.C.
87. 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Mon.-Sat.;
?I.cland Transfer Station, 8 a.m.
4:30 p.m.. Mon.-Sat.
Five more convenience/recycling
sites are in the planning. McCarley
said, with the next facility to b^* lo
cated at Winnabow. Others will be at
the county sanitary landfill in Sup
ply, on N.C. 211. and in the North
west and Waccamaw areas.
Only seven of Brunswick
County's municipalities have active
recycling programs, though the state
Kae u!! !c<c?j! govern^"0*0
will reducing the waste stream.
In the South Brunswick Islands.
Ilolden Beach and Calabash have
staffed drop-off centers and Ocean
Isle Beach has an unstaffed drop-off
Recycling For Christmas Trees Offered
Wondering what to do with your Christmas tree now that the holidays
are finally over?
Why not recycle it?
Rninswirk County will soon be under contract with a company 'hat
grinds trees, branches and other yard waste into a mulch that can be used
for landscaping and gardening, according to county Recycling
Coordinator Mary McCarley.
As a result, Christmas trees are now being accepted at any of the coun
ty's three solid waste transfer sites or the two convenience sites for recy
cling. Special containers will be set aside at each site for transporting the
trees to the landfill, where they will be stored until the "tub grinder" ser
vice begins.
Within the next 30 days, the useful mulch material will be available
free of charge on a first-come, first-servtd basis for use in landscaping or
composting, McCarley said.
For more information on the county's recycling programs, call the
Brunswick County Engineering Department at 253-4488.
center. Shallotte. Sunset Beach anil
Varnamtown do not have town
sponsored recycling programs.
Bald Head Village. Southport.
Long Beach. Caswell Beach and
North Brunswick High School in
Iceland also have recycling programs.
"We don't care if people recycle
through the county or collect materi
als :>nil take them to a nrivate recv
cler." said McCarley. "We just want
to encourage people to recycle."
At both the landfill and transfer
stations. Brunswick County also ac
cepts wood and yard waste for
mulching, household-type waste, and
"white gixxls" such as refrigerators.
The landiill also takes old tires for
shredding, building and remodeling
materials, non-regulated medical
waste, ash and fly ash. wastewater
treatment sludge and nutals. animal
carcasses; dry paint and paint cans
and drums and barrels that have been
perforated. Some of the items must
be disposed of in specific areas of the
landfill.
McCarley maintains a list of ven
dors who take items such as scrap
metal, old batteries and used motor
oil.
Her office coordinates an office
recycling project at the government
center, accepting white ledger, com
puter, mixed papers, newspapers and
aluminum cans. Each spring or early
summer she also coordinates a coun
tywide telephone book recycling
program, accepting old books when
new ones are distributed.
A five-compartment mobile recy
cling trailer is available for loan to
non-profit organizations and festi
vals. Items collected can be disposed
of through the county recycling pro
gram or at the user's choice.
From July 1. 1092. through June
30. 1993, the county and municipali
ties collected X50 tons of recy
clables. That included glass, plas
tics. metal and paper, but not tires or
yard waste.
McCarley has seen the volume of
materials recycled locally increase
hut n??t ??? rinidlv ;k thr*
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volume of materials going into the
county landfill for burial. Though
recycling twice as much as two
years ago, Brunswick County resi
dents are still recycling only about 4
percent of all solid waste.
"If everyone would recycle just
one thing it would help." insists
McCarley. "It all adds up."
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COUNTY RECYCLING SITES are now accepting some plastics, including crushed tw o-liter soft drink
bottles like those Recycling Coordinator Mary MeCartey is tossing in a PET container, and milk jugs,
w hich arc made of HOPE plastic.
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