The Orange County Solid Waste Department recently added a new, 24-hour drop-off site for recycling in the community.

The county government shared new dumpsters are in place and open at the Jones Ferry Park and Ride Lot, located at 603 Berryhill Drive west of Carrboro. Like the other sites, they are free for the public to use.

“The opening of the drop site is through the collaboration of the Town of Chapel Hill, UNC-Chapel Hill and the county,” said Orange County Solid Waste Director Robert Williams. “The addition of the Recycling Drop Off Site provides a convenient location in the Chapel Hill/ Carrboro area for residents to drop off single-stream recycling, glass and cardboard.”

The new recycling drop-off site at the Jones Ferry Road Park and Ride Lot. (Photo via the Orange County Government.)

The site will be unmanned, but accessible 24 hours a day. It features separate collection areas for the general recycling, glass and cardboard items. Orange County said trash drop-off and scavenging in the bins is prohibited.

Jones Ferry Road’s addition of a 24-hour recycling site brings the county’s total back up to four. Two of the sites are in Chapel Hill: one behind the Harris Teeter grocery store in Meadowmont and the other near Cedar Falls Park on Weaver Dairy Road. The other drop-off site is in Hillsborough, behind the Home Depot store in the Hampton Pointe shopping center. The county previously had a 24-hour recycling site at University Place mall in Chapel Hill, but the lease for the dumpsters was not continued past May 2022 as part of the ongoing redevelopment of the mall property.

More details on the 24-hour recycling drop-off sites in Orange County, as well as requests for when dropping off items, can be found on the county’s Solid Waste Department website.

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