Hickory Grove Recycling Center
8007 Pence Road
phone: Call 311
Directions:
From Albemarle Road (going away from Charlotte) make a left at Harrisburg Rd (not Harris Blvd.) There will be a Circle K/76 service station and a Wal-Mart on your left. Turn left onto Pence Rd (just before the railroad tracks). Turn right about .7mile into recycling center entrance.
Hours of Operation:
Tuesday - Saturday; 7am - 3pm
Acceptable Materials:
Aluminum/steel/tin cans
Spiral paper cans ( i.e. frozen juice cans with lids)
Glass jars/bottles (all colors) (NO lids or caps, ceramic cups, window/windshield glass, pyrex, glass dinnerware--plates and cups)
#1 and #2 Plastic bottles only! (soda, liquor, milk, water, shampoo and detergent bottles)-- look on the bottom of the bottle for the numbers inside the recycling symbol! (NO Lids or caps, yogurt/cottage cheese/margarine containers, used motor oil containers)
Junk mail and Mixed Paper (office paper, junk mail, envelopes, cereal boxes without liners, paper bags, gift boxes, gift wrap, dry food boxes, beer and pop cartons, mail tubes, paper towel rolls, index cards, file folders, paper egg cartons and paper food trays). (NO paper contaminated with food residue, diapers, milk/juice cartons, text books, food packages coated with wax, styrofoam, plastic food containers, gift bows and ribbons, and plastic grocery bags!)
Newspapers and inserts
Magazines and catalogs
Telephone books
Flattened corrugated cardboard (NO pizza boxes!)
Eyeglasses
Household batteries (camcorder, laptop, camera, flashlight batteries, etc.)
Oil filters
Appliances (stoves, refrigerators, washers, dryers, water heaters, etc.)
Lead acid (car) batteries
Scrap aluminum and ferrous metal (bed frames, swingsets, etc.)
Paint: oil and water-based
Motor oil/antifreeze/transmission fluid (NO brake fluids!)
Cooking oil
Tires (no more than 5)
Plastic 6-pack rings
Propane tanks from gas grills (empty!)
Used clothing in good condition
Fire extinguishers
new item - Computers and Monitors
Goodwill Industries is operating donation centers at the following Mecklenburg County Recycling centers:
County residents can drop off items in good condition - including furniture, tools, books, toys, sporting equipment, household items, and more.
Household Construction & Demolition Debris:
Mecklenburg County will accept residents' wood waste (framing timbers, pallets, crates, spools, sheathing, treated lumber/decking), inert material (concrete, brick, asphalt pavement, mortar, sheet rock, rock, gravel), plastic (pipe, buckets, wrap), and other (shingles, fiberglass bath fixtures, tile, ceramic, carpet, padding). Residents will be charged $22 per pickup truck or trailer 12 feet or less. This service is available to residents only. Businesses can take C&D waste to the Foxhole Landfill, 17131 Lancaster Highway, 704-341-4962.
Mecklenburg County helps residents safely dispose of their household hazardous waste (HHW). Most HHW may be taken the
North Mecklenburg Recycling Center, Hickory Grove Recycling Center,
West Mecklenburg Recycling Center and
Foxhole Recycling Center where it is collected by ECOFLO, a licensed HHW transfer, storage and disposal facility. Call 704-336-5359, for a brochure about what constitutes HHW and how to store and prepare it for transfer to these recycling centers.
Other:
This center also accepts household garbage (which is everything else that can't be recycled or composted) and bulky waste items (mattresses, chairs, etc.) from county residents at no charge for disposal.
Please send your questions or comments to Steve Hoffman.
