Who can get curbside recycling pickup in Myrtle Beach, SC? How the city’s program works

There are several ways Myrtle Beach residents can recycle to limit their waste, but access to them depends on where and how you live. Here’s how the process works and how you can keep your recyclable waste out of a landfill.

All recycled materials in Horry County end up at the county’s Materials Recycling Facility, sometimes called MRF, which can process 30,000 tons of recyclables annually. MRF staff hand sort, package and ship the recycled waste to factories.

However, the facility isn’t designed for individual drop offs. Instead, MRF receives recyclables from other smaller recycling centers. Horry County operates 25 recycling convenience centers, but these centers are reserved for residents of unincorporated areas because they don’t have access to their own programs.

Municipalities in the county operate their own recycling programs and centers that feed into MRF. In Myrtle Beach, recycling is processed at the Jake Abraham Transfer Station at 3221 Mr. Joe White Ave.

City residents who live in houses pay a monthly fee, typically $30.80, and the city offers weekly household garbage, yard waste and recycling curbside collection. For residents in condominium and apartment complexes, the city still offers recycling service, but the process can be slightly more complicated.

Because the city of Myrtle Beach doesn’t perform recycling dumpster collection, it’s up to the complex owner to provide a private collection services, like these businesses that asked to be listed on the Horry County Solid Waste Authority website.

If a complex in Myrtle Beach doesn’t offer recycling services, city residents still take their recycling directly to the Jake Abraham Transfer Station to be processed. The station is open between 3:00 and 5:00 p.m. from Tuesday through Friday and 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on Saturday.

To drop off recyclables, residents must provide proof of an address within city limits. Current utility bills, driver’s licenses, parking decals and parking decals are all considered acceptable.

For both curbside pick up and recycling center drop off, the city of Myrtle Beach accepts the following recyclable materials:

• #1 and #2 plastic bottles and jugs

• Aluminum and tin cans

• Cardboard boxes with any packaging and tape removed

• Catalogs, magazines and newspapers

• Corrugated cardboard

• Clean paper bags

• Empty aerosol cans without caps

• Glass bottles and jars without lids

• Office and school paper

• Junk mail

• Paperback and telephone books

There are also recycling programs in all Horry County public schools. In addition to educational resources about recycling, schools offer classroom, cafeteria and commingle recycling bins.

Classroom recycling bins accept:

• Computer, copy, stationary, carbonless, fax, loose, scratch and notebook paper without spirals or cardboard

• Envelopes

• Sticky notes

• Shredded paper in clear bags

Cafeteria and commingle recycling bins accept:

• Steel and aluminum cans

• Plastic bottles

• Clean food containers

• Clean cardboard

• Newspapers

• Magazines