Recycling
The City of Anderson encourages voluntary recycling efforts. Anderson County operates sixteen convenience centers for residential use, two of which are located in the vicinity of the City of Anderson. The Civic Center Convenience Center, located at Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd and Woodcrest Drive, is open 8am-6pm, seven days a week. The White Street Convenience Center, located on White Street adjacent to the Anderson Memorial Stadium, is open 8am-6pm, Monday-Saturday.
The convenience centers accept as recyclables: aluminum cans; steel cans; green, brown and clear glass; plastics #1 and #2; cellular phones; mixed paper; newspaper; cardboard (no waxed coating); used motor oil, bottles and filters; lead car and truck batteries; ink-jet cartridges.
Anderson County Environmental Services also operates a Recycling Education Center located on Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd across from the Anderson Civic Center/Sports and Entertainment Complex. The Recycling Education Center includes a resource facility with instructional materials, detail grass plots, butterfly garden, meeting space and an open-air covered pavilion for larger classes and demonstrations.
More information is available at www.andersoncountysc.org/web/Recycle_00.asp or by calling Anderson County Environmental Services at 864-260-1001.
Stormwater Utility
In 2006 the City of Anderson began a process to implement a stormwater management
program as required by the State and Federal government. This process required the City
to submit an application for a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)
permit.
The permit requires the City to address the quality of stormwater runoff through a number of requirements, including a reliable and sufficient source of funding for the program. To this end, the City has established a Stormwater Utility.
Recycle Grass Clippings
Weekly, City crews collect neighborhood yard waste and dispose of it at the Starr C&D Landfill. You can help reduce this waste stream and conserve landfill space by recycling your yard waste. Consider creating backyard compost. You may even discover composting to be a good way to re-use natural elements, help the environment, conserve dollars, and produce a high quality and inexpensive soil amendment all at the same time. If you have questions, call Public Works at 231-2246.
What is trash?
Collection schedule:
How you can help?
If you are interested in obtaining this mulched material, call (864) 231-2246. The City will haul it to you free provided that the haul distance is less than the distance to the landfill. Monitor the city website or call Public Works, (864) 231-2246 to determine your collection day.
Separate Trash
Different types of trash require specific types of disposal. You can help keep our streets cleaner and provide a more efficient means of collection by separating your trash appropriately. Please remember to separate your limbs, leaves, and other yard waste from household materials such as construction debris and appliances. Metal and appliances must be separated, too. So, if the City collected your neighbor's trash and left your trash behind, the problem may be mixed trash that cannot be collected by City crews. If you have questions, call (864) 231-2246.