Recycling Center Board
Throughout Rowan County, there are many administrative boards that serve our community in a variety of ways. In this week’s Board Highlight Blog, we're highlighting the Recycling Board.
The Morehead-Rowan County-MSU Community Recycling Center offers a variety of free services, including 24-hour drop off for recyclables, information on buying recycled products, and information for local businesses and households on reducing solid waste. By appointment, they also offer tours of the MCRC, showing the process, environmental education, and native/natural landscaping techniques, as well as presentations to middle and elementary schools. Recycling plays an important role in conserving resources and maintaining a healthy environment, as well as reducing solid waste in the area.
Services with a fee include (call 784-1250 in advance to schedule these services):
· Shredding of documents: $15/hour, $5 minimum
· Collection services for Businesses Curbside Recycling within Morehead City limits: $10/pickup
· Residential Curbside pickup (available to most areas of Rowan County): $10/month
The MCRC currently accepts paper, cardboard, cans, plastic and E-scrap including the following:
· Cardboard and ‘paperboard’
· Packaging Folders
· Plastic #1 & #2
· Clear shrink wrap
· E-scrap (computers, fax machines, phones, microwave ovens, cell phones)
· Paper
· Newspaper, magazines, office and school paper, mixed paper, and shredded paper, and junk mail are accepted. (Please put napkins, paper towels, tissues, etc. in the trash!)
· Metal
· Steel (tin) cans, Aluminum cans, and foil
The board’s meetings are held quarterly, typically on the 1st Wednesday of the first month of that quarter at 5pm. They are open to the public. Our community is greatly benefitted by the various services offered by the MCRC. Check out their website here: https://moreheadrecycling.org/
MEMBERS:
PRESIDENT CHRIS MERITT
CHARLIE WINKELMAN
HOLLY NIEHOFF
BETH OSLEY
WALT RIBKA
YVONNE BALDWIN