Today I visited the Snellville Recycling Center for the first time since I moved here 15+ years ago. I looked at it from afar, but I never went in before. I've been doing some spring cleaning so I took a bunch of cardboard boxes, and some old appliances like a coffeemaker & an old vacuum cleaner over there.
I knew it that it had a lot of upgrades, but I was really pleased! If you haven't been using the Recycling Center, you should take a load of recyclables over there to check it out for yourself.
You can learn about what they will and won't accept, the days and hours of operation at this link:
http://www.snellville.org/works/recycling.aspx
It will save you a lot of time and effort to read over that page first, so you won't load up stuff that they won't accept. It will also help you know how to organize your stuff so it's quicker to sort at the Recycling Center.
Each type of accepted recyclable material has its own bay. The Recycling Center is for use by Snellville residents only, so make sure you have some ID to show you are a resident. It's very organized there, and they will help you make sure everything gets put in the right place.
If you are paying for the larger trash bin/home trash pickup beyond the pickup that is covered in your Snellville City Taxes (I was), then you might want to consider doing more recycling. The more you can keep out of your regular residential trash pickup, then you could use a smaller home refuse container and not have to pay the extra trash pickup charges. I have been paying about $26 quarterly. So by having less trash and using the Recycling Center (free), I'll save $104 per year.
I had already been doing the basic recycling in the bin that they pick up from my curb, but it's nice to know that more than that can be taken to the Recycling Center.
Using the Recycling Center is very convenient. It's located on Marigold St., which is right behind Briscoe Park. You can get to it through the park, or you can enter Marigold Street from Lenora Church Road (the street right by the Elizabeth Williams Library Branch).
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