Keep Myrtle Beach Beautiful Resources

Beautification, Littler and Recycling Information & Resources

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KEEP MYRTLE BEACH BEAUTIFUL PROGRAMS

Reduce Cigarette Litter

Cigarette butts are the most commonly littered item in the United States of America according to Keep America Beautiful (KAB). This program of Keep South Carolina Beautiful (KSCB), made possible through partnership with KAB, aims to reduce cigarette litter.

You can request a FREE cigarette receptacle to install at your business. You’ll need to place the bin in an accessible place, regularly empty it and conduct cigarette waste audits (counting cigarette waste, including those on the ground around the receptacle) every three months for one year. 

The cigarette butts are recycled for free by TerraCycle and are turned into compost and plastic products like benches, pallets and ash trays.

Learn more from PalmettoPride

RESOURCES

Turn Your Power Green with Santee Cooper

Santee Cooper Green Power is electricity generate from renewable resources like wind, solar and landfill gas. Santee Cooper Green Power helps preserve the environment, reduces demand on our non-renewable natural resources and increases our energy independence. 

Both commercial and residential customers can support renewable power growth by voluntarily purchasing Green Power through their monthly electric bills. Green Power also can be purchased for events. Recent green powered events include the 2022 RBC Heritage presented by Boeing, the 2022 World Famous Blue Crab Festival and the 2021 Loris Bog-Off.

Learn More about Green Power

Wickedly Awesome Beach & Fishing Gear Buyback Program

Keep The Beach beautiful and pass on beach gear with the Wickedly Awesome Buyback Program. This program provides space to sell or donate gently used beach equipment and fishing gear – they’ll even provide a pickup service making it convenient for visitors on their way out of town.

The Wickedly Awesome BuyBack program is available to all beach communitities in Horry and Georgetown counties. Visit WickedlyAwesome.com for more.

Food Waste Collection Program

Horry County Solid Waste Authority launched a pilot program for food waste in December 2022 offering free drop-off for residents at the Landfill Recycling Convenience Center on Highway 90 and the Carolina Forest Recycling Center on International Drive. The collected food scraps are then recycled into compost.

What can I compost?

Additional Links and Our Partners

City of Myrtle Beach Solid Waste & Recycling Division – information, hours and collection schedule for waste and recycling in the City of Myrtle Beach. Outside of the regular collection schedule, city residents can bring waste to the Jake Abraham Transfer Station, additional fees for some waste types may apply.

Horry County Solid Waste Authority provides waste management for Horry County including operation of recycling centers and the landfill.

Keep America Beautiful – The national nonprofit organization inspires and educates people to take action every day to improve and beautify their community environment. KA envisions a country in which every community is a clean, green, and beautiful place to live. KMBB a proud affiliate of KAB.

PalmettoPride is South Carolina’s anti-litter and beautification organization and state affiliate of KAB. KMBB is a proud partner of PalmettoPride.