NEWS: JCC Supervisors Approve Waste Recycling Facility

Contents of septic tanks, grease traps and storm drains will become compost instead of going into local landfills

The future home of a new waste recycling facility sits at the current terminus of Green Mount Parkway in James City County. The County's Board of Supervisors recently approved the facility, which is expected to turn waste from septic tanks, grease traps and sewer basins into usable compost. (Images: George Arbogust, Williamsburg Independent)

The James City County unanimously approved a special use permit (SUP) allowing a proposed waste recycling facility to proceed on a site off Green Mount Parkway, next to the Skiffe’s Creek Reservoir. According to County planning documents, Newport News-based Ziegler Plumbing intends to use the land for a facility capable of turning the waste from customers’ septic tanks, restaurant grease traps and sewer basins into compost. The company plans to sell the end product on a wholesale basis and the facility will not be open to the public. Overall, the company expects to process 7,000 gallons of “organic waste materials” daily, keeping it out of local landfills and creating 5,500 cubic yards of compost annually.