Solid Waste Division - Convenience Center operations
Hours: 8:00 - 4:30
Monday - Saturday
Closed Holidays
Telephone: (828) 698-4451
Center accepts the following items:
Household trash: If accompanied with recycling - (one bag of recycable materials for one bag of household trash) otherwise, household trash needs to be taken to the Transfer Facility for disposal.
Recycling:
- Bottles, Cans, Jars and Jugs
- Mixed Paper
- Cardboard
- Batteries (rechargeable and non rechargeable)
- Anit-Freeze
- Used Motor Oil and Used Oil filters
- Cooking Oil
- White Goods and Scrap Metal
- Computers, office equipment, telephones, etc
Center does not accept the following items (the Transfer Facility does accept these items):
- Yard debris
- Leaves
- Yard Waste
- Beneficial Fill
- Mattress
- Construction debris
- Furniture
- Garden Hose Reels, etc
- Sliding Glass Doors
- Carpet, linoleum, etc
- Paint (solid form for Transfer Station to accept)
Located at Convenience Center Drive off of Stoney Mountain Road
Convenience Center Contact Information
| Name | Title | Telephone |
|---|---|---|
| Marcus A. Jones PE | County Engineer Director of Engineering |
(828) 694-6526 |
| Natalie J. Berry PE | Assistant County Engineer Manager of Solid Waste Division |
(828) 694-6523 |
Greg Wiggins |
Operations Manager |
(828) 694-7982 |
| Megan Piner MPA | Environmental Programs Coordinator |
(828) 694-6526 |
| Kathy Nash | Administrative Assistance |
(828) 697-4505 |
Convenience Center Frequently Asked Questions
Convenience Center Operations FAQ'S
Q: The entrance does not appear to be safe when leaving the facility turning left towards downtown Hendersonville?
A: The site distance at the entrance/exit of the convenience center does meet NC
DOT standards for a 45 MPH speed limit stretch of roadway. However, the
county sent a request to NC DOT to change the speed limit for the entire
length of stoney mountain road to be posted at 35 mph. The county will continue
to monitor the entrance/exit even once the speed limit is reduced.
Q: Why did the county put the yellow railings in front of each household trash
receptacle and each recycle box?
A: The county is required to put the goal of safety over that of convenience.
However, we are monitoring the operations at the new center and making
adjustments. To maintain safety but adjust to the new center, we are looking at a
couple of changes to operations. First, we are going to incorporate a “chute” onto
the railing to make access to the openings easy until we can purchase open top
containers with a removable top. The removable top will allow us to cover the
material when the container is not in use and during the night. We have waited
on purchasing this year’s replacement containers to adjust to the new facility.
We hope to have the chutes installed as soon as possible and purchase the new
containers over the next couple of months. We will be making equipment change
during this budget year to accommodate these adjustments.
Q: Why are the containers arranged like they are at the convenience center?
A: A bottles, cans, jars and jugs container, a mixed paper container and a
cardboard container are grouped together for ease of recycling to the customer.
There are three groups of recycle containers.
Q: Why are the household trash receptacles not grouped with the each set of
recycle containers?
A: The reason for the household trash receptacles being located at the entrance to
the recycle center is so that staff can educate all citizens on the procedure of bag
for bag program.
Q: If we carry our recyclables in bags, after we empty our bags, there is no where to
dispose of the bags without returning to the trash receptacles at the beginning of
the center?
A: You are correct, we have made an adjustment for this issue. We have placed a
blue barrel just past the white goods area near the exit on the drivers side of the
one way road to accommodate throwing away the bags that were used for
hauling of recyclables. Thus is temporary and will be replaced with a 55 gallon
barrel marked for such disposal.
Q: How will the attendant building be powered?
A: The structure will use solar power for electricity.
Q: When will the county be accepting Household Hazardous Waste?
A: The county will beginning having monthly events throughout the summer months
of each year, beginning in April or May of 2012.
Convenience Center Bag for Bag program
You may also click here to download Henderson County's recycling guidelines.
| CAN recycle | CAN'T recycle | MUST BE |
| Aluminum cans, pie plates and foil | Aluminum Siding, doors or furniture, plastic bags | Rinsed, clean of food |
| Steel cans | Paint cans, plastic bags | Rinsed |
| Newspaper, white paper, colored paper, junk mail, magazines, shredded paper, phone books, notebook paper, cereal boxes and other paper board | Milk or juice cartons, any paper that is contaminated by food or oil, styrofoam of any kind, plastic bags | Clean and dry |
| All glass bottles and jars | Drink glasses, glass from window panes, plastic bags |
Rinsed |
Plastic bottles, jars and jugs. This includes shampoo bottles, detergent bottles, milk jugs, soda bottles and peanut butter jars. |
Motor oil containers, plastic bags, plastic cups, plastic trays, plastic buckets, plastic flower pots, plastic wrap, plastic film, plastic egg cartons, plastic butter tubs and yogurt containers and plastic to-go and deli containers | Rinsed |
| Corrugated cardboard | Cardboard that is wet or dirty, pizza boxes | Flattened and broken down, free of food contamination |
Currently, all #5 plastics are now accepted by the Hendersonville Co-op located at 715 Old Spartanburg Highway in Hendersonville through the Gimme 5 program sponsored by Preserve.
