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Richland County Recycling Programs
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Richland Recycles Day set for May 17

Richland County residents (NO businesses, please) are invited to participate in Richland County Recycles Day at the State Fairgrounds (1200 Rosewood Drive, Columbia) on May 17.

The event will include educational events for students, teachers and parents in the Ellison Building from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Residents also will have the chance to recycle the following household items between 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.:

  • Tires – car and light truck tires or smaller, small tires (e.g., bike, wheel barrow) – LIMIT 8 PER VEHCILE;
  • Computers and accessories (e.g., keyboards, monitors, printers, scanners);
  • Televisions (40 inch or smaller) – NO CONSOLES;    
  • Stereos – NO CONSOLES; 
  • Household electronics including VCRs, DVD players, power tools, radios, fax machines and small appliances, microwave ovens and other electrical items with power cords;
  • Telephones (land and cell) as well as pagers and answering machines;
  • Scrap metal (e.g., stoves, washers, dryers, bicycles, metal door frames, metal chairs, metal shelves, lawn mowers) – MUST BE FREE OF GASOLINE AND OIL; and
  • ·Hazardous household materials – click here for a complete list.

To drop off any of these items, please enter the fairgrounds through Gate 6 and exit from Gate 11.

For more information, call (803) 576-2446 or visit Richland County Solid Waste and Recycling.

    
   

Arcadia Lakes, Town of

Contact: Christine Murphy
Location and mailing address: 6626A Arcadia Woods Road, Columbia, SC 29206 
Phone: (803) 782-2272
Fax: (803) 787-3338 

CURBSIDE COLLECTION:

  • Cans (aluminum, steel)
  • Cardboard
  • Plastic bottles, jars and jugs
  • Paper (magazines, newspaper and inserts)
   

 

City of Columbia

Contact: Tiffany Jaspers
Location and mailing address: 2910 Colonial Dr., Columbia, SC 29203 
Phone: (803) 545-3803
Fax: (803) 733-8648 
Web: City of Columbia Web Site

CURBSIDE COLLECTION:

  • Aluminum cans, foil, trays and pie pans
  • Batteries (all types) -- not leaking
  • Cans (aluminum, steel, aerosol)
  • Cardboard (e.g., shipping and pizza boxes)
  • Cartons (e.g., milk, juice, broth)
  • Glass bottles and jars (brown, green, clear)
  • Paper (e.g., magazines, newspaper and inserts, office paper, unwanted mail, paper bags, greeting cards, envelopes)
  
  • Paperboard (e.g., cereal boxes, shoe boxes)
  • Plastic bottles, jars, jugs and other containers (e.g., beverage bottles, yogurt containers, butter tubs, frozen dinner trays)
  • Telephone books

 

Cooking Oil

Cooking oil (cooking oil, fats and greases) is accepted -- from households ONLY -- at the Public Works facility at 2910 Colonial Drive. The facility is open from 9:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m., Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Please note that cooking oil containers are not accepted for recycling at this site. Please call (803) 545-3780 for more information.

 

Electronics Recycling

Electronics, household (televisions, computers, computer monitors, printers and other electronic equipment) and fluorescent bulbs -- from City of Columbia residents ONLY -- can be recycled at the Public Works facility at 2910 Colonial Drive. Items can be dropped off between 9:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Please call (803) 545-3780 for more information.

 

Telephone Book Recycling

Telephone books can now be recycled year round in the City of Columbia. Residents can recycle their telephone books by simply placing them in their curbside recycling containers. City of Columbia residents also can recycle telephone books at both of the drop-sites listed below. Remember to put them in the recycling container for newspaper.

 

Unstaffed Drop-off Sites 

  • 2600 Bull St., behind the Department of Mental Health and DHEC buildings
  • Vista, off Lady St. behind M Vista (corner of Washington and Wayne Streets)

HOURS: 24 hours

SITES COLLECT:

  • Aluminum cans, foil, trays and pie pans
  • Cans (aluminum, steel, aerosol)
  • Cardboard (e.g., shipping and pizza boxes)
  • Cartons (e.g., milk, juice, broth)
  • Glass bottles and jars (brown, green, clear)
  • Paper (e.g., magazines, newspaper and inserts, office paper, unwanted mail, paper bags, greeting cards, envelopes)
  
  • Paperboard (e.g., cereal boxes, shoe boxes)
  • Plastic bottles, jars, jugs and other containers (e.g., beverage bottles, yogurt containers, butter tubs, frozen dinner trays)
  • Telephone books

 

Compost for Sale 

LOCATION: Humane Lane 

HOURS: Monday - Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.

DETAILS: Compost costs $25 per cubic yard.

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Forest Acres, City of

Contact: Joey Paschal 
Location and mailing address: 5205 Trenholm Rd., Forest Acres, SC 29206 
Phone: (803) 782-9475
Web site: City of Forest Acres Recycling Web Page

CURBSIDE COLLECTION:

  • Cans (aluminum, steel)
  • Cardboard
  • Glass bottles and jars (brown, green, clear)
  
  • Paper (magazines, newspaper and inserts)
  • Plastic bottles, jars and jugs (#1-#7)
  • Telephone books

 

Telephone Book Recycling

Telephone books can now be recycled year round in the City of Forest Acres. Residents can recycle their telephone books by simply placing them in their curbside recycling containers. Telephone books also are accepted at the Robert Spring Road Drop-off site listed below. Remember to put them in the recycling container for newspaper.

 

Drop-off Site 

  • 5400 Robert Springs Rd.

HOURS: Monday - Saturday, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. 

SITE COLLECTS:

  • Cans (aluminum, steel)
  • Cardboard
  • Glass bottles and jars (brown, green, clear)
  
  • Paper (magazines, newspaper and inserts)
  • Plastic bottles, jars and jugs (#1-#7)
  • Telephone books

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Fort Jackson

Contact: Ernest Dicks
Location and mailing address: 5671 Lee Rd., Fort Jackson, SC 29207 
Phone: (803) 751-4208 or (803) 751-1576

Unstaffed Drop-off Site 

  • Building 5671, Lee Rd.

HOURS: Monday - Friday, 7 a.m. - 3 p.m.; Saturday, 8:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

SITE COLLECTS:

  • Cans (aluminum, steel)
  • Cardboard
  • Glass bottles and jars (green, brown, clear)
  • Pallets (standard size 40" X 48" only)
  • Paper (colored paper, magazines, newspaper and inserts, mixed office paper)
  
  • Plastic bottles, jars and jugs (#1-#7)
  • Scrap metal
  • Telephone books

 

Irmo, Town of

Contact: Whitt Cline
Location: 7300 Woodrow St., Irmo, SC 29063
Mailing Address: PO Box 406, Irmo, SC 29063
Phone: (803) 781-7050
Fax: (803) 749-2743
Web: Town of Irmo Recycling Web Page

CURBSIDE COLLECTION:

  • Cans (aluminum, steel)
  • Cardboard
  • Glass bottles and jars (brown, green, clear)
 
  • Paper (magazines, newspaper and inserts)
  • Plastic bottles, jars and jugs

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Richland County

Recycling Coordinator: Shirley Mims
Location and mailing address: 400 Powell Rd., Columbia, SC 29203
Phone: (803) 576-2446
Fax: (803) 576-2499
Web site: Richland County Solid Waste and Recycling

CURBSIDE COLLECTION:

  • Aluminum cans and pie pans
  • Cans (aluminum, steel, aerosol)
  • Cardboard (e.g., shipping and pizza boxes)
  • Cartons (e.g., milk, juice, broth)
  • Glass bottles and jars (brown, green, clear)
  • Paper (e.g., catalogs, magazines, newspaper and inserts, office paper, unwanted mail, paper bags, envelopes)
  
  • Paperboard (e.g., cereal boxes, shoe boxes)
  • Plastic bottles, jars, jugs and other containers (e.g., beverage bottles, yogurt containers, butter tubs, frozen dinner trays)
  • Telephone books

 

Telephone Book Recycling

Telephone books can now be recycled year round in Richland County. Simply take them to any county drop-off site and put them in the recycling container for newspaper. Richland County residents also can recycle telephone books in their curbside recycling containers.

 

Unstaffed Drop-off Site 

  • Public Works, 400 Powell Road off Pisgah Church Rd.

HOURS:  Monday - Friday, 7 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.

SITE COLLECTS:

  • Aluminum cans and pie pans
  • Cans (aluminum, steel, aerosol)
  • Cardboard (e.g., shipping and pizza boxes)
  • Cartons (e.g., milk, juice, broth)
  • Farmer oil (up to 55 gallons)
  • Glass bottles and jars (brown, green, clear)
  • Paper (e.g., catalogs, magazines, newspaper and inserts, office paper, unwanted mail, paper bags, envelopes)
  
  • Paperboard (e.g., cereal boxes, shoe boxes)
  • Plastic bottles, jars, jugs and other containers (e.g., beverage bottles, yogurt containers, butter tubs, frozen dinner trays)
  • Telephone books
  • Used motor oil and oil filters

 

Staffed Drop-off Site 

  • Lower Richland, 10531 Garners Ferry Rd., just south of Mr. Bunky’s Convenience Store on Hwy. 76/378 -- Phone: (803) 776-2324

HOURS:  Monday - Saturday, 8 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.(site closes at 5:30 p.m. in Winter); Sunday, 12:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

SITE COLLECTS:

  • Aluminum cans and pie pans
  • Appliances, large (e.g., refrigerators, washers, dryers)
  • Batteries, lead-acid (car, truck, boat)
  • Cans (aluminum, steel, aerosol)
  • Cardboard (e.g., shipping and pizza boxes)
  • Cartons (e.g., milk, juice, broth)
  • Electronics, household (televisions, computers, computer monitors, printers and other electronic equipment)
  • Farmer oil (up to 55 gallons)
  • Glass bottles and jars (brown, green, clear)
  
  • Oil/gasoline mixtures
  • Paper (e.g., catalogs, magazines, newspaper and inserts, office paper, unwanted mail, paper bags, envelopes)
  • Paperboard (e.g., cereal boxes, shoe boxes)
  • Plastic bottles, jars, jugs and other containers (e.g., beverage bottles, yogurt containers, butter tubs, frozen dinner trays)
  • Telephone books
  • Tires (up to five - no rims)
  • Used motor oil and oil filters

 

Unstaffed Drop-off Sites 

  • Ballentine, Bird Road (behind 1009 Bickley Road)
  • Blythewood, 311 Blythewood Road
  • Clemson's Sandhills Research and Education Center, 900 Clemson Road
  • Sonoco Recycling, 1132 Idlewilde Blvd., off Bluff Road

HOURS:  24 hours

SITES COLLECT:

  • Aluminum cans and pie pans
  • Cans (aluminum, steel, aerosol)
  • Cardboard (e.g., shipping and pizza boxes)
  • Cartons (e.g., milk, juice, broth)
  • Glass bottles and jars (brown, green, clear)
  • Paper (e.g., catalogs, magazines, newspaper and inserts, office paper, unwanted mail, paper bags, envelopes)
  
  • Paperboard (e.g., cereal boxes, shoe boxes)
  • Plastic bottles, jars, jugs and other containers (e.g., beverage bottles, yogurt containers, butter tubs, frozen dinner trays)
  • Telephone books

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Richland County Landfill  

Contact: Alan Huffstetler 
Location and mailing address: 1070 Caughman Rd. North, Columbia, SC 29203 
Phone: (803) 576-2390

Staffed Drop-off Site 

  • Landfill, 1070 Caughman Rd. North

HOURS: Monday - Friday, 7 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.; Saturday, 7 a.m. - 12:45 p.m.

SITE COLLECTS:

  • Aluminum cans and pie pans
  • Appliances, large (e.g., refrigerators, washers, dryers)
  • Cans (aluminum, steel, aerosol)
  • Cardboard (e.g., shipping and pizza boxes)
  • Cartons (e.g., milk, juice, broth)
  • Electronics, household (televisions, computers, computer monitors, printers and other electronic equipment)
  • Farmer oil (up to 55 gallons)
  • Glass bottles and jars (brown, green, clear)
  
  • Oil/gasoline mixtures
  • Paper (e.g., catalogs, magazines, newspaper and inserts, office paper, unwanted mail, paper bags, envelopes)
  • Paperboard (e.g., cereal boxes, shoe boxes)
  • Plastic bottles, jars, jugs and other containers (e.g., beverage bottles, yogurt containers, butter tubs, frozen dinner trays)
  • Tires (up to five - no rims)
  • Used motor oil and oil filters

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Additional Used Motor Oil Collection Sites

Ballentine/Irmo

  • Ballentine Fire Department, 10717 Broad River Rd.*  

Blythewood Fire Department

  • 435 Main St.*  

Columbia

  • Advance Auto, 7613 Garners Ferry Rd.
  • Advance Auto, 7030 Two Notch Rd.
  • Advance Auto, 3010 Two Notch Rd.
  • Advance Auto, 4731 Devine St.
  • Advance Auto, 249 Bush River Rd.
  • Auto Zone, 3108 Two Notch Rd.
  • Auto Zone, 6121 St. Andrews Rd.
  • Auto Zone, 9860 Two Notch Rd.
  • Auto Zone, 255 O'Neil Ct.
  • Auto Zone, 3601 Main St.
  • Auto Zone, 7710 E. Garners Ferry Rd.
  • Auto Zone, 211 Ricky Ln..
  • Fire Department, 153 Atlas Rd.* 
  • Pep Boys, 1804 Broad River Rd.
  • Pep Boys, 2455 Decker Blvd.
  • Walmart Tire and Lube Express Center, 1326 Bush River Rd.
  • Walmart Tire and Lube Express Center, 5420 Forest Dr.
  • Walmart Tire and Lube Express Center, 7520 Garners Ferry Rd.
  • Walmart Tire and Lube Express Center, 360 Harbison Blvd.
  • Walmart Tire and Lube Express Center, 321 Killian Rd.
  • Walmart Tire and Lube Express Center, 10060 Two Notch Rd.

Eastover

  • Eastover Fire Department, 504 Henry St.*

Gadsden 

  • Fire Department, 122 Community Center Dr.*

Hopkins

  • Fire Department, 1631 Clarkson St.*

Spring Valley

  • Sandhills Fire Department, 130 Sparkleberry Ln.*

Upper Richland

  • Fire Department, SC 215 and County Rd. 38* 

NOTE: Sites marked with an asterisk (*) also accept used oil filters.

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DISCLAIMER: The information on this page is provided by local governments and may not reflect recent changes.
For the most up-to-date information, please call the contact listed.

For more information about recycling in South Carolina, please call 1-800-768-7348.

This Web page was last updated on April 23, 2013.

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