Charleston County Recycling Center Tour

April is Earth Month and with the Trump administration’s complete abandonment of the fight against climate change, assault on science, and erasure of basic facts relating to environmental science, it is more important, and more challenging than ever to live out the humanist value of environmentalism: “I will take care of the Earth and the life on it.” All month we will be focusing on what we can do to care for our planet.

We have arranged for a tour of the Charleston County Recycling Center at 10 am on Thursday, April 10th. The Material Recovery Facility (MRF), opened in 2020. For safety, they don't take groups onto the processing floor, but they have a state of the art educational center, where we will be given a 10-minute presentation followed by question and answer time. We will be able to see the recycling process through viewing windows in the education center.

In addition to our tour of the Recycling Center on April 10th, we are promoting two additional opportunities to learn more about waste management and sustainable living in the lowcountry: a tour of the Bees Ferry Composting Center (where you can get free compost on the tour) on Saturday, April 19th, and a Community Plant Tour of Mount Pleasant Waterworks’ Henry Clay Duffie Water Resource Facility on Thursday, April 24th. These are public events, not put on by SHL, so they will not be on our Meetup. Get more details about participating in these events on our website.