Items Accepted

What can you bring into the center?

  • Paper:  Newspapers with inserts, magazines,  books, catalogs, office paper, junk mail, shredded paper, phone books, etc.  
  • Fiberboard: Beverage, cereal, cake mix, pasta, cracker or gift boxes, ect.
  • Corrugated Cardboard: Pre-flatten boxes.
  • Plastics: #1 PET or PETE, #2 HDPE, & plastic, grocery bags.
  • Aluminum, Tin, Beverage, and Metal Food Containers:   Please rinse out cans. NO paint  cans, aerosol cans or other potentially harmful or hazardous cans.
  • Glass: Please rinse out any glass bottles
  • Miscellaneous: empty printers, old cell phones, car batteries, empty printer and toner cartridges,  radios, old computers and accessories, rechargeable batteries (must say rechargeable on   it), telephones, digital clocks, and large bulky metal items.
  • Clean, used motor oil can be dropped off at the County Road Department Garage.  

Please make sure to rinse out glass, aluminum, and tin products. “Dirty” materials, typically cannot be recycled. Contaminated products, such as oily cardboard or paper, can contaminate an entire batch.

Items accepted at the trailer dropoffs are limited to per location.

Plastic items, with these symbols, are accepted. Items with other numbers: 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7 are not accepted at this time. The numbers can typically be found on the bottom of the item.

Household Hazardous Waste

Rockcastle County Solid Waste and Recycling works to obtain grants allowing us to hold Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) events. Items accepted for those events can be found below. Keep your items until an event. Proper disposal helps maintain healthy waterways, drinking water, and our environmental. Most drinking water is pulled from lakes, rivers, or wells. All of which can be contaminated by improper disposal of waste in our waterways. HHW days are for residential customers only. No businesses allowed.

  • Batteries: Lead Acid (no automotive), Ni-Cad, Lithium, Recyclable, and Dry Cell, etc.
  • Corrosives: Toilet Bowl Cleaner, Deck Wash, Muriatic Acid, Vinegar, Stop Bath, Drain Cleaners, Acetic Acid, Lye, etc.
  • Oxidizers: Pool and Spa Chemicals, Bleach, Hydrogen Peroxide, Ammonium Nitrate Fertilizer, etc.
  • Reactives: Aluminum Paint, Flammable Solids, Dangerous When Wet Materials, etc.
  • Paints: Oil Based ONLY. All other paints can be allowed to dry or mixed with either cat litter or saw dust and then disposed of in normal trash.
  • Mercury: Free Liquid, Thermostats, Thermometers, Mercurochrome, Any Device with Mercury in it.
  • Propane (must be manfacturer labeled as being propane): 20# Gas Grill Type, 1# Small Stove/Soldering Type.
  • Fluorescent Bulbs: 4′ to 8′ Bulbs Unbroken, Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFL).
  • PCB Materials (Polychlorinated Biphenyls): Light Ballast, Capacitors, Free-Liquid Oils (must be marked as such).
  • Aerosol Cans: Any and All Types.
  • Solvents: All compatible flammable solvents, such as:  gasoline, kerosene, lamp fluid, automotive fluids, etc.   
  • Pesticides, Herbicides, Insecticides: All liquid and solid forms, such as:  lawn fertilizers, lawn foods, lawn treatments, plant foods, insecticides, rodent poisons/killer, etc.       

PRESCRIPTION DRUG DISPOSAL

The Rockcastle County Solid Waste Office and Recycling Center has partnered with the Rural Communities Assistance Partnership (RCAP) to provide Prescription Drug Take Back Envelopes available for anyone looking to safely and privately dispose of any old and unwanted medications. Each seal-and-send medication mail-back envelope holds 8 oz and the postage is prepaid. Help us keep these medicines out of the waterways and landfills. Simply place your unwanted, outdated, medicine in the envelope, and place it in the mail, where Stericycle will then properly dispose of it.

The Mount Vernon Police Department provides regular prescription takeback for the county. For more information, please see their contact information below. 125 Richmond St. Mt. Vernon KY 40456 606-256-3437 Additional Info: Mon.-Fri.call 606-256-2427 for officer

Lastly, you can go to Google Maps and type in “drug disposal near me” or “medication disposal near me” to find your nearest drug disposal site.