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Recycling Services

Adams Brown Recycling provides a variety of recycling services for Adams & Brown Counties, including community drop-offs, curbside, buy-backs, commercial recycling, school recycling, educational programs & tours, and more.

Buy Back and Drop off Centers

Adams Brown Recycling, Georgetown

• Materials we pay for – aluminum cans, scrap aluminum, copper brass, batteries, radiators, lead, alternators, starters, and more.
• Materials we take on donation – paper & cardboard, plastic bottles, glass bottles, steel, appliances, computers
• Other … there is a yard waste drop-off site

Adams County Waste & Recycling, West Union

• Materials we pay for – aluminum cans, scrap aluminum, copper brass, batteries, radiators, lead, alternators, starters, and more.
• Materials we take on donation – paper & cardboard, plastic bottles, glass bottles, steel, appliances, computers
• Other … Garbage is accepted for a fee of .06 per pound, and tires are accepted for fees (based on tire size) starting at $2.00 per tire 

Community Drop off Boxes – Community recycling boxes accept the following materials, and are available 24/7. Please wash all containers and throw away lids.

• Paper & Cardboard (newspapers,magazines, catalogs,office paper, junk mail, books,flattened cardboard boxes, cereal boxes, cracker boxes)
• Glass bottles
• Steel food cans
• Plastic bottles, jars & jugs
• Aluminum cans 

Adams County Drop offs

Adams County Engineers Garage ...11390 St. Rt. 41, West Union
Adams County Waste & Recycling ...... 95 Trefz Rd., West Union
Blue Creek ................Jefferson Twp. Fire Dept. in Blue Creek
Courthouse Square........... behind 116 W. Mulberry, West Union
Manchester...........................27 East 4th St., behind the library
Manchester High School ...........130 Wayne Fry Dr., Manchester
North Adams Elementary..................2295 Moores Rd., Seaman
Peebles Community Center .........34 South Nixon Ave., Peebles
Peebles Elementary School...... 700 Peebles Indian Dr., Peebles
Wayne Twp. Fire Department.......14815 St. Rt. 136, Cherry Fork
West Union Elementary School..........555 Lloyd Rd., West Union
Winchester ...... just past S&S Dairy Bar at 2033 Tri County Hwy

Brown County Drop offs
Aberdeen - River Crossing Marathon
Ash Ridge - Township Hall 
Decatur - old school
Fayetteville - 3854 St. Rt. 50 East
Georgetown - Shopko
Georgetown - 9262Mt. Orab Pike, at Adams Brown Recycling
Greenbush - at ballpark on State Route 68
Hamersville - Town Park 
Higginsport - Fire Department
Mt. Orab - 409 N. High St.
Ripley - 3rd & Cherry near the park
Russellville - Elem. School
Sardinia - Veteran’s Park

Curbside – Free curbside recycling available to residents of all Brown County villages. Call for more information.

Commercial Recycling – Fee-for-service for small or large businesses. Call to learn how we can help you with your recycling and waste minimization goals.

The Glass reFactory – Glass bottles that come into Adams Brown Recycling are melted down in our glass “hot shop” to create colorful glass suncatchers that are impressed with dozens of nature designs. Tours available, and suncatchers may be purchased on site. Wholesale accounts accepted. www.glassrefactory.com

Educational Programs & Tours - A Recycling Education Specialist is available, at no charge, to come to your classroom, school assembly, or youth/adult meeting, with an interactive presentation on recycling, solid waste and/or litter prevention. Group tours are given at the Georgetown recycling plant. Call for more information.