Design Your Recycling Program

• Use the Smart Business: A Guide to Reducing Waste & Recycling at Your Business along with assistance from the Smart Business Recycling Program Team. Use these helpful worksheets with your recycling guide to start or improve your program:
• Educate and promote. 
• Schedule a training session with us to help get your program started on the right track.

Find a Recycler

Finding a recycler may be the toughest part of starting or expanding a recycling program, but we can help.

• If your business already has a a disposal contract, explore if recycling is an option to add-on.
• Check the Smart Business: Partnerships list to see if your local government is one of our partners and able to help with business recycling.
• The "S.C. Recycling Markets Directory: Connecting Materials to Markets" is designed to help businesses, local governments and others reduce waste, conserve resources and ultimately provide raw material to manufacturers to make recycled-content products. The directory offers a listing of more than 300 recycling companies, organizations and others that make available a variety of services and markets as well as a robust selection of recyclable commodities. The directory is provided in partnership by DHEC’s Office of Solid Waste Reduction and Recycling and the S.C. Department of Commerce.

Recycle the Right Way

• Here are the Top 5 Tips for Recycling at Your Business.
• Download the "Dirty Dozen: Office Edition" poster to find out what NOT to put in your recycling. 
• Research information on recycling specific material below:
  • Electronics
  • Composting
  • Hard-to-Manage Items

Contact Info

Email smartbiz@dhec.sc.gov or call 1-800-768-7348.