Onslow County transfer station

Onslow County transfer station in Swansboro is a small local transfer station where residents drop off household trash to be compacted and loaded onto larger trucks bound for a landfill. Neighbors use it when driving to a distant landfill isn’t practical and for routine household cleanouts.

Drive up Swansboro Loop Road to the fenced facility and slow down for the entrance area; there’s typically an entrance booth and a scale where vehicles check in and out. Vehicles pull up to a concrete tipping area or bay to unload, and large compactors and roll-off trucks are regularly moving around the site. It looks industrial rather than landscaped - dumpsters, compactors, and haul trucks dominate the yard - and weekends or spring cleanup times can have a line of cars waiting to get in.