Wayne County Recycle Center

A plain-looking county recycling center just off W Hill Street that locals use to drop off household recyclables and bulk items. Neighbors bringing carloads or small trailers swing by to keep stuff out of the landfill. Expect a working, no-frills place where the goal is simply to sort and move materials on.

Drive up the access road to a small entrance booth and pull forward to unload; there’s a scale in most yard-style centers so vehicles might be weighed. Recycling chutes or large bins for paper, cardboard, glass, plastics and metals will be grouped together, with bulky items and yard debris parked in separate piles. The site looks industrial-gravel or pavement, metal containers, and forklifts or loaders moving material on busy days. Weekends and spring cleanup periods tend to be the busiest times, so lines can form at the entrance.