CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - A South Carolina county says it is sending its recyclable material to a facility that separates garbage from salvageable material and turns irrecoverable waste into fuel pellets.
News outlets report Charleston County announced Friday that it’ll start paying Berkeley County about $40 a ton to transport recyclable material to RePower South facility, a mixed waste factory.
Charleston County’s recycling facility on Romney Street has had issues. In June, machinery problems caused recyclables to be sent to a landfill.
County spokesman Shawn Smetana says Romney Street is too small to handle Charleston waste and sending recyclables to RePower is a fix until the county’s 2020 opening of a new $24 million recycling center.
The Post and Courier says the county decided to build the new recycling center in 2013.
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