The Department of Environmental Management would like to congratulate the Residents of New Hanover County for their outstanding effort to do the right thing and go above and beyond the call to use the Recycling Drop-Off Sites.
Below is a Year-To-Date chart showing the comparison of materials from last year to this year:
The County also recycles a large amount of material at the landfill area and the Waste-To-Energy Plant which includes white goods, scrap steel, tires and construction & demolition debris such as sheetrock and wood waste. Below is the amount of material diverted form the landfill and recycled at New Hanover County montly:
|
Month |
White Goods |
Scrap Steel |
Tires |
Sheetrock |
Wood Waste |
|
July 07 |
4.38 tons |
106.7 tons |
299.23 tons |
97.86 tons |
192.93 tons |
|
Aug 07 |
7.31 tons |
95.58 tons |
275.23 tons |
112.32 tons |
555.29 tons |
|
Sep 07 |
9.82 tons |
138.65 tons |
290.68 tons |
43.61 tons |
107 tons |
|
Oct 07 |
44.97 tons |
68.69 tons |
308.41 tons |
119.37 tons |
313.54 tons |