North Carolina C&D landfill to close in May

A C&D materials landfill known as the Catawba County Construction and Demolition landfill in Newton, North Carolina, has been scheduled to close permanently May 1 by its county government operator.

A press release issued by Catawba County says the landfill, part of the County’s Blackburn Resource Recovery facility, has reached its capacity.

The western North Carolina county says materials formerly brought to the landfill will, after May 1, be accepted by the county’s Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Landfill. “This includes any waste generated from the construction, renovation, repair and demolition of structures such as residential and commercial buildings, roads and bridges,” says Catawba County.

That landfill’s current tipping fee is $37.96 per ton, which the county describes as having been raised “due to higher construction and maintenance costs associated with the newer landfill.”

C&D materials also can be diverted to the county’s Blackburn Landfill Grinding Area. At that location says the county, “Asphalt, concrete, brick and block are accepted at no charge if the material is free of reinforcement materials.”

For what the county calls a nominal fee, the Grinding Area also accepts “natural wood waste, such as clean, uncontaminated wood pallets and brush, limbs, and trees, as long as limbs and trees are cut no larger than 8 feet long and 14 inches in diameter.”