The Horry County Solid Waste Authority and Santee Cooper's "Green Power" generators are now producing electricity from the state's first renewable power. Click Here to learn more about the methane gas plant and its impact on our environment.


The Horry County Solid Waste Authority has several facilities and locations throughout the county. Click on a link at below to view a slide show of pictures from them.

Landfill  ·  Material Recycling Facility  ·  Green Power
 
 
 

Recycling improves our quality of life…for example, recycling just one ton of office paper can save 7,000 gallons of water. And by recycling cardboard, we can save 25% of the energy required to make new cardboard. Every little bit helps: if each household reused a paper grocery bag for just one shopping trip, about 60,000 trees would be saved.

  
 
 
Keeping our air clean…Most cars on U.S. roads carry only one person. We have so much extra room in our 140 million cars that everyone in Western Europe could ride with us. If each commuting car carried just one more person we'd keep more than 360 million pounds of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere…each day!