Richland County
Recycling Coordinator: Syndi Castelluccio
Physical and Mailing Address: 1070 Caughman Road North, Columbia, SC 29203
Phone: (803) 576-2467
Fax: (803) 576-2495
Website: Richland County Solid Waste and Recycling
Curbside Collection
- Aerosol cans (empty)
- Aluminum cans
- Cardboard - shipping and pizza boxes
- Cartons - milk, juice, broth
- Glass bottles and jars - brown, green, clear
- Mixed paper - catalogs, magazines, newspaper and inserts, office paper, unwanted mail, paper bags, envelopes
- Paperboard - cereal boxes, shoe boxes
- Plastic bottles, jars, jugs and other containers - beverage bottles, yogurt containers, butter tubs, frozen dinner trays
- Steel cans
- Telephone books
Staffed County Drop-Off Centers
1. C&D Landfill Drop-Off Center, 1070 Caughman Road North, Columbia, SC 29203
Phone: (803) 576-2390
Hours of Operation
Monday - Friday, 7AM - 4:30PM
Saturday, 7AM - 12:30PM
CLOSED Sunday
2. Lower Richland Drop-Off Center, 10531 Garners Ferry Road, Eastover 29044 (just south of Mr. Bunky's Convenience Store on Highway 76/378)
Phone: (803) 776-2324
Hours of Operation
Monday, Wednesday, Friday & Saturday, 8AM - 5PM
Sunday, 12:30PM - 5PM
CLOSED Tuesday & Thursday
CENTERS 1-2 COLLECT:
- Aluminum Cans (NO aluminum foil or pans)
- Antifreeze
- Batteries, Lead-acid (car, truck, boat)
- Batteries, Rechargeable (from cordless tools, phones, laptops)
- Cardboard (flattened and dry)
- Carpet Padding/Foam Rubber
- Cooking Oil
- Fluorescent and CFL Bulbs (lengths up to 4 feet are accepted)
- Glass Jars and Bottles (NO lids)
- Household Electronics (televisions, computers, computer monitors, printers and other electronic equipment)
- Mattresses and Box Springs
- Oil/Gasoline Mixtures
- Paint, Latex (limit 10 gallons per household per day)
- Paperboard (cereal boxes, shoe boxes)
- Plastic Bottles, Jars, Jugs and Other Containers (plastics numbered #1 through #7 including butter tubs, yogurt cups, milk and juice cartons; NO cups, NO polystyrene foam)
- Refrigerators, Freezers and Freon Tanks
- Scrap Metal and Large Appliances (washers, dryers, stoves, grills, bicycles)
- Steel/metal cans
- Textiles and Linens (clothes, shoes, sheets, towels)
- Tires (limit 8 per household per day)
- Wood Waste (branches, stumps, clean lumber, pallets)
3. Clemson's Sandhills Research and Education Center, 900 Clemson Road
Phone: (803) 576-2440
Hours of Operation
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday - Sunday, 9AM - 6PM
CLOSED Monday & Wednesday
SITE COLLECTS:
- Aluminum Cans
- Cardboard (flattened and dry)
- Cooking Oil
- Glass Bottles and Jars (NO lids)
- Paper (newspaper and inserts, catalogs, magazines, unwanted mail, telephone and paperback books, envelopes, office paper)
- Plastic Bottles, Jugs, Jars and Other Containers (plastics numbered #1 through #7 including butter tubs, yogurt cups, milk and juice cartons; NO cups, NO polystyrene foam)
- Steel/Metal Cans
Sonoco Recycling
Address: 1132 Idlewilde Boulevard, Columbia SC
Phone: (803) 929-6000
Hours: 24 hours a day
Items accepted:
- Aluminum cans
- Cardboard
- Chipboard boxes
- Metal cans
- Newspaper and junk mail
- Plastics
- Phonebooks
Town of Arcadia Lakes
Contact: Elizabeth Krajewski
Physical and Mailing Address: 6911-2 N. Trenholm Road, Columbia, SC 29206
Phone: (803) 782-2272
Fax: (803) 787-3338
Curbside Collection
- Aerosol cans (empty)
- Aluminum cans
- Cardboard - shipping and pizza boxes
- Cartons - milk, juice, broth
- Glass bottles and jars - brown, green, clear
- Mixed paper - catalogs, magazines, newspaper and inserts, office paper, unwanted mail, paper bags, envelopes
- Paperboard - cereal boxes, shoe boxes
- Plastic bottles, jars, jugs and other containers - beverage bottles, yogurt containers, butter tubs, frozen dinner trays
- Steel cans
City of Columbia
Contact: Samantha Yager
Physical and Mailing Address: 2910 Colonial Drive, Columbia, SC 29203
Phone: (803) 545-3800
Fax: (803) 733-8648
Website: City of Columbia Website
Brochure: City of Columbia
Curbside Collection
- Aerosol cans (empty)
- Aluminum - cans, foil, trays and pie pans
- Cardboard - shipping and pizza boxes
- Cartons - milk, juice, broth
- Glass bottles and jars - brown, green, clear
- Mixed paper - magazines, newspaper and inserts, office paper, unwanted mail, paper bags, greeting cards, envelopes
- Paperboard - cereal boxes, shoe boxes
- Plastic bottles, jars, jugs and other containers - beverage bottles, yogurt containers, butter tubs, frozen dinner trays
- Steel cans
- 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 AM and 3:30 PM, 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
Electronics, household equipment (televisions, computers, computer monitors, printers and other electronic equipment) and ALL fluorescent bulbs - from City of Columbia residents ONLY - can be recycled at the PublicWorks facility at 2910 Colonial Drive. Items can be dropped off between 9:30 AM and 3:30 PM on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. Please call (803) 545-3780 for more information.
Compost for Sale
This compost is made of yard trimmings from City of Columbia residents.
Location: Humane Lane
Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:30AM - 5PM
Details: Compost costs $25 per cubic yard.
City of Forest Acres
Contact: Joey Paschal
Physical and Mailing Address: 5205 Trenholm Road, Forest Acres, SC 29206
Phone: (803) 782-4719
Website: City of Forest Acres Recycling WebPage
The City of Forest Acres collects garbage, recycling and yard debris once a week at each residence.
On the morning of your weekly garbage collection, your cart must be at the curb by 7 AM. Please remove your cart from the curb by 8 PM of your collection day. Garbage must be placed in roll carts. Recyclable materials must be placed in recycling bins for pickup, but should not be bagged.
Garbage
What to Throw Away
Your roll cart is for disposing of regular household garbage. Please place bagged household garbage in your roll cart. Bag and tie so garbage won't fly! Plastic shopping bags are good to use as garbage bags and you can use the handles as ties. Pet owners: please seal animal waste and cat litter in plastic bags before placing in roll cart. Please do not use your cart for yard waste, recycling, hot ashes, flammable liquids, chemicals, motor oil, hazardous waste or construction debris.
Curbside Collection
Each resident is provided with one recycling bin from the city.
- Aerosol cans (empty)
- Aluminum cans
- Cardboard - flattened shipping and clean pizza boxes
- Glass - clear, green and brown beverage and food containers (must be clean to be accepted)
- Newspapers and magazines
- Plastic containers - milk jugs, soda bottles, plastic bottles, jugs, and jars with recycling codes #1-7
- Paperboard - flattened cereal and shoe boxes
- Steel cans
- Telephone books
**NOTE: containers contaminated with food may result in rejection of the entire bin of recyclables
Unacceptable items for curbside recycling:
- Egg cartons, Plastic bags, Styrofoam of any kind
- Light bulbs, Dishes or Window pane glass
Public Works facility at the corner of Covenant Rd. and Robert Springs Rd. This facility ONLY accepts the following items:
- Plastic containers - milk jugs, soda bottles, plastic bottles, jugs, and jars with recycling codes #1 - 7
- Newspapers and magazines
- Paperboard - flattened cereal and shoe boxes
- Cardboard - flattened shipping and clean pizza boxes
- Aluminum and tin - soda, vegetable and aerosol cans
- Telephone books
The following items are not collected by the City of Forest Acres, but may be disposed of at Richland County facilities listed below:
- Gear oil
- Fuel oil
- Heating oil
- Kerosene
- Hydraulic oil
- Diesel fuel
- Automatic transmission oil
- Motor oil
- Cooking oil
- Oil and gas mixture
- Antifreeze
- Tires
- Lead acid batteries
- Fluorescent light bulbs
- Paint
- Propane tanks
- Helium tanks
Fort Jackson
Contact: Ernest Dicks
Physical and Mailing Address: 5671 Lee Road, Fort Jackson, SC 29207
Phone: (803) 751-4208 or (803) 751-1576
Unstaffed Base Drop-Off Site
Building 5671, Lee Road
Hours: Monday - Friday, 7AM - 3PM; Saturday, 8:30AM - 3:30PM; CLOSED Sunday
SITE COLLECTS:
- Aluminum cans
- Cardboard
- Glass bottles and jars - green, brown, clear
- Mixed paper - colored paper, magazines, newspaper and inserts, mixed office paper
- Pallets (standard size 40" X 48" only)
- Plastic bottles, jars and jugs - #1-#7
- Scrap metal
- Steel cans
- Telephone books
Town of Irmo
Contact: Whitt Cline
Physical Address: 7300 Woodrow Street, Irmo, SC 29063
Mailing Address: PO Box 406, Irmo, SC 29063
Phone: (803) 781-7050
Fax: (803) 749-2743
Website: Town of Irmo Recycling WebPage
Curbside Collection
- Aluminum cans
- Cardboard
- Mixed paper - magazines, newspaper and inserts
- Plastic bottles, jars and jugs
- Steel cans
Additional Used Motor Oil Collection Sites
Ballentine/Irmo
- Ballentine Fire Department, 10717 Broad River Road*
Blythewood Fire Department
- 435 Main Street*
Columbia
- Advance Auto, 7613 Garners Ferry Road
- Advance Auto, 7030 Two Notch Road
- Advance Auto, 3010 Two Notch Road
- Advance Auto, 4731 Devine Street
- Advance Auto, 249 Bush River Road
- Auto Zone, 3108 Two Notch Road
- Auto Zone, 6121 Street Andrews Road
- Auto Zone, 9860 Two Notch Road
- Auto Zone, 255 O'Neil Court
- Auto Zone, 3601 Main Street
- Auto Zone, 7710 East Garners Ferry Road
- Auto Zone, 211 Ricky Lane.
- Fire Department, 153 Atlas Road*
- Pep Boys, 1804 Broad River Road
- Pep Boys, 2455 Decker Boulevard
- Richland County Public Works Facility, 400 Powell Road
- Walmart Tire and Lube Express Center, 1326 Bush River Road
- Walmart Tire and Lube Express Center, 5420 Forest Drive
- Walmart Tire and Lube Express Center, 7520 Garners Ferry Road
- Walmart Tire and Lube Express Center, 360 Harbison Boulevard
- Walmart Tire and Lube Express Center, 321 Killian Road
- Walmart Tire and Lube Express Center, 10060 Two Notch Road
Eastover
- Eastover Fire Department, 504 Henry Street*
Gadsden
- Fire Department, 122 Community Center Drive*
Hopkins
- Fire Department, 1631 Clarkson Street*
Spring Valley
- Sandhills Fire Department, 130 Sparkleberry Line*
Upper Richland
- Fire Department, 300 Camp Ground Road*
Note: Sites marked with an asterisk (*) also accept used oil filters.