Columbus, OH Opens New Bulk Trash Collection Center to Divert Large Items from Landfill

SEATTLE (Waste Advantage): Columbus has opened a new bulk trash collection center that aims to divert items from the landfill that could be reused or rehabilitated. It is the second bulk collection in the city. The centers help keep things like furniture or bulky items out of the landfill, if they can instead be rehabilitated or donated to consignment stores like Goodwill.

Columbus Division of Refuse Collection administrator Tim Swauger said this will help extend the life of the landfill while reducing carbon emissions. “We accept yard waste, any recycling, styrofoam … furniture and electronics, bicycles, anything that we can divert from the landfill,” Swauger said.

Swauger said land for more centers like this is limited within the city limits, but Columbus and the Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio are talking to neighboring suburbs to find land to add regional bulk waste centers. “So really for the city as we’re growing, the population continues to increase. We only have one landfill in the landfill down there. When it’s full, there is no other convenient location that’s available to open up a new landfill.”

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