Facility details
- Address
- 47 Long Pond Rd
Southwest Harbor, ME 04679 - Phone
- (207) 244-9033
- Facility type
- Recycling
- County
- Hancock County
- EPA Region
- 1
- Data sources
- EPA
- Last verified
- 2026-10-09
About this facility
A recycling center collects, sorts and prepares recoverable materials so they can be sold to mills and manufacturers instead of being landfilled. Some are public drop-off sites run by a city, county or hauler; others are commercial buy-back yards or processing plants that take material from collection routes and businesses. What a given site handles depends on its equipment and the markets it sells into, so one center may focus on cardboard and containers while another takes only scrap metal. Many sites pay for certain materials and charge for others. Hours, fees and accepted materials vary — call ahead to confirm what is taken, how it must be sorted and whether there is a minimum quantity.
Typically accepted at Recycling Center facilities
- Cardboard and mixed paper
- Plastic bottles and containers
- Aluminum and steel cans
- Glass bottles and jars
- Scrap metal
- Electronics (at some sites)
Hours, fees and accepted materials vary by site — call ahead before hauling a load.
Nearby facilities
- EMR Transfer Station and Recycling Center Transfer Station same site · Southwest Harbor, ME
- Bar Harbor Town Recycling Center Transfer StationRecycling 8.9 mi · Bar Harbor, ME
- Bar Harbor, Town of Transfer Station 9.5 mi · Bar Harbor, ME
- Swans Island, Town of Transfer Station 10.1 mi · Swans Island, ME
- Lamoine Transfer Station Transfer Station 12.2 mi · Lamoine, ME
- Lamoine Redemption Recycling 12.3 mi · Lamoine, ME
- Lamoine, Town of Transfer Station 14.4 mi · Lamoine, ME
- Blue Hill, Town of Transfer Station 14.7 mi · Blue Hill, ME
- Blue Hill-Surry Transfer Station Transfer Station 15.1 mi · Blue Hill, ME
- Deer Isle Transfer Station Transfer Station 16.2 mi · Deer Isle, ME
Nearest landfill: Rockland Quarry Landfill, Rockland — 41.3 mi
Area served
Serves Southwest Harbor, Bernard, Northeast Harbor, Seal Cove, Mount Desert, Bass Harbor, Seal Harbor, Cranberry Isles, Islesford, Bar Harbor, Swans Island, Brooklin.
County context
One of 8 recycling centers in Hancock County, ME.
ZIP 04679 population 1,544.
Maine solid-waste agency: Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP)