Find out below where to go and who to call to recycle your residential waste:
County recycling centers:
Hanes Mill Road Landfill - 325 Hanes Mill Road, (336) 661-4900
Forsyth Co. Center #1 - 445 Lindsay St., Kernersville (near the Public Works Department), (336)723-2784
Forsyth Co. Center #2 - 6328 Yadkinville Rd., Pfafftown (beside Vienna Volunteer Fire Department) - (336) 723-2784
Hours: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Tuesdays-Saturdays, except major holidays.
Accepted materials: Aluminum beverage cans; glass bottles and jars (clear, green and brown); plastic bottles and jugs (clear and colored); steel food and beverage cans; aerosol cans; chipboard (i.e. cereal boxes and paper towel rolls); junk mail and office paper; magazines and catalogs; newspaper; telephone books; corrugated cardboard; tires (at Hanes Mill Road landfill only).
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The city of Winston-Salem provides weekly recycling collection to households and some small businesses. Get details here.
Important contact information:
Call (336) 723-2784 for missed collections; bin requests; schedules and general information.
Call 727-8153 to request small business or multi-family recycing.
Call 727-8418 to request school recycling.
Call 784-4300 for information on household hazardous waste recycling.
Information on recycling in:
Cookprint: A term used by food writer Kate Heyhoe to describe the entire chain of resources used to prepare meals, along with its resulting waste.
Seeks to transform greater Greensboro area into into a more bicycle-friendly community.
Bicycle recycling project that promotes bicycling as a means of alternative transportation, a healthy lifestyle choice and a way to build community.
This network of locally owned and independent businesses in the North Carolina Triad formed in the summer of 2009 and aims to share ideas and network to promote locally owned brick and mortar retail businesses, to educate the consumers on the importance of shopping locally, and to encourage investment in our community be keeping our dollars at home.
"How you define an eco-friendly frame product, depending on your perspective, comes in a hundred shades of gray." - Robyn Feinsod, manager of marketing and merchandising for Graphik Dimensions Ltd in High Point.
