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Residents complain of overflowing transfer sites; board adopts expanded elderly/disabled solid-waste fee relief
Summary
Residents reported repeatedly full bins at Sedley and Jonas Bridge Road transfer sites and urged more frequent collection. Separately the board adopted an ordinance raising income thresholds for elderly/disabled exemptions to the solid-waste management fee and aligning exemption brackets with inflation.
Several residents told the Board during the citizen-comment period that Southampton County's transfer sites — notably Sedley and Jonas Bridge Road — are frequently full, forcing trips to other sites or leaving some recyclables uncollected.
Why it matters: overflowing bins present a nuisance and potential health issue for users of county transfer stations and indicate capacity or collection-schedule problems in county solid-waste operations.
Resident Ash Cutchen said bins at…
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