Blue Hen Disposal

For almost 50 years, Blue Hen Disposal, a locally owned and operated company, has provided quality and dependable solid waste service in Sussex County, Delaware. Blue Hen offers commercial, residential, and roll off waste and recycling collection from their centrally located operations center in Millsboro, Delaware. Our professional and courteous employees understand the value we have for our customers and this is apparent in the level of service they provide. We commit ourselves to building strong personal relationships with our customers, maintaining an organized operation, and providing the same prompt, dependable service we have for the past 39 years.Contact us today for a price quote for Residential, Commercial, or Roll Off service. Blue Hen would appreciate the opportunity to serve you. Our experienced staff can determine the optimal disposal and/or recycling solution for your business or project and provide you with prompt, cost effective waste removal service. Fill out our request a quote form, or call us at (302) 945-3500

Residential Waste Removal

Blue Hen Disposal offers once a week residential waste collection and every other week recycling collection throughout Sussex County, Delaware. Blue Hen provides trash and recycling 95 gallon wheeled carts to all residential customers. We ask that our customers have their trash out to the curb the night before your scheduled pick-up day.Blue Hen disposal picks up residential waste with the newest, most technologically advanced fleet of automated collection trucks in Delaware. When placing your trash container at the curb do not lean objects against the container or place the container too close to fences, trees, mailboxes, or vehicles.

Blue Hen Disposal has several options for payment with no additional charge to our customers. We accept Checks or credit cards--Visa, Mastercard, or Discover payable via telephone.Automated service utilizes a truck equipped with a mechanical arm that lifts your trash and recycling containers from the street and empties the containers' contents into the truck - without the driver ever leaving the cab.Automated trash service is more convenient. You can fill your container without having to worry about how heavy the contents are - simply wheel the containers to the curb on your service day and the truck's mechanical arm will do the rest.The automated containers are more durable, and reduce the likelihood of tipping or spilling. Because they are uniform in appearance, they also help neighborhoods look neater and cleaner.

Commercial

Blue Hen Disposal understands our commercial customers’ unique waste service needs. That’s why we’ve made it our mission to be responsive, reliable, and competitively priced.We know it’s our job to make sure our garbage collection services help your business, not burden it. That’s why we take extreme care to respect your workplace, and your time. From the ground up, we’ve made it our business to take care of yours. Because we all know, time is money. And that is one thing we will never waste.

Roll Off Service

Blue Hen Disposal offers roll off waste collection and disposal services for all types of waste produced and generated from commercial, construction, demolition, and reconstruction projects. Our roll off collection fleet is operated by professionally trained and experienced operators who are responsive to the demanding and changing waste disposal needs of our customers. We have specialized equipment that is prepared to meet any customer specific waste removal need. Call us at (302) 945-3500 or contact us to request a quote.Blue Hen DIsposal offers many different container sizes to meet the specific requirements of your business or job site. Roll off container sized offered include 10, 20, 30, and 40cubic yards and can be placed in almost any safe, sizable location for easy access to the waste. While they are often seen on construction and demolition sites, they can be used for all levels of non-hazardous waste and recycling collection and transportation. Blue Hen Disposal also offers roll off compactors for large waste generating locations such as grocery stores, hospitals, or other large commercial businesses.

Organic Recycling

Blue Hen Disposal takes yard waste, food waste and construction wood waste to Blue Hen Organics in Frankford, Delaware where these organic materials are manufactured into high quality compost, topsoil and other horticultural soil amendments that are sold in bulk throughout the Delmarva Peninsula. Compost is a biological process of recycling organic materials to support and sustain new plant growth. Composting is the transformation of organic material through decomposition involving invertebrates and microorganisms into a stable, nutrient-rich, soil-like material.

Yard waste and food waste are ground and blended together based on a computer model formula for each type of compost. The mixed organic material is placed in windrows and monitored daily for tempurature, moisture, and oxygen to ensure the optimal composting parameters. After the 6-month process, the finished compost is screened and ready for sale.Blue Hen Disposal is proud to be on the leading edge of organic recycling on the Delmarva Peninsula by partnering with Blue Hen Organics to recycle yard waste, food waste and construction wood waste in an environmentally safe and beneficial manner. Give us a call at (302) 945-3500 to find out how affordable it is to recycle your organic material.

Yard Waste Recycling

As of January 1, 2011, yard waste cannot be disposed of in any Delaware landfill. Yard Waste must be separated from trash and taken to an approved yard waste collection or composting facility.DNREC's definition of yard waste includes leaves, grass clippings, prunings, garden materials, brush, shrubs, Christmas trees, and tree limbs up to 4' in diameter.Blue Hen Disposal takes yard waste to the only DNREC approved composting facility in Sussex County, Blue Hen Organics, located in Frankford, Delaware. At Blue Hen Organics, yard waste is ground, blended with food waste, and composted. The finished compost is used in agricultural and landscaping applications all over the Delmarva Peninsula.