Holmes County residents turn out strong for waste collection event
Holmes County waste drives keep drawing crowds, with 268 participants at Recycling Day in 2018 and 229 at a hazardous-waste removal day in 2019.
Holmes County’s waste collection events keep drawing residents in numbers that show real demand, not just routine county housekeeping. Holmes County Solid Waste logged 268 participants at Recycling Day in 2018, then 229 people at a hazardous-waste removal day in 2019, after 260 took part the year before that.
Those turnout levels point to a service many households use to get rid of recyclables and hazardous material the right way. County officials have also used special collection days to keep non-recyclables out of the recycling stream and reduce contamination in collection bins.
The most recent household hazardous-recycling event at Harvest Ridge on May 4, 2024 also went well. Tim Morris thanked the Lakeville Lakers 4-H Club, Gary Graham, Holmes Rental and Millersburg Tire for helping with the effort, a sign that the county’s collection days depend on local volunteers and sponsors as much as on county staff.
The county has repeated the same approach in other years. Holmes County Solid Waste sponsored a special Recycling Day on June 25, 2022 to encourage responsible recycling and eliminate contamination from non-recyclables, and another Recycling Day was held Oct. 9, 2021 at the Harvest Ridge parking lot west of Millersburg.
The recycling system itself has shifted over time, but the need for drop-off options has remained steady. In August 2020, nine of Holmes County’s 13 recycling sites were still operating. A 2017 report counted 46 single-stream bins across several drop-off locations countywide.
The hazardous-waste side has shown similar demand for years. A household hazardous-waste collection in July 2016 took in 7.46 tons of material, underscoring how much waste local families can keep out of regular trash, ditches and burn piles when a collection day is available.
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