BROOKHAVEN — The Keep Lincoln County Beautiful campaign wrapped up on May 11, 2024. Crews spent Five Saturdays taking household trash at the Brookhaven Transfer Station on County Farm Lane. 

Lincoln County Solid Waste Coordinator Bob Knight said they spent six hours on average each of the Saturdays taking in trash. In total, the collection gathered 273,460 pounds of trash including electronics, metal and rubbish. Knight said the tonnage was 136.73 tons. 

Electronics accounted for 9.37 tons or 18,740 pounds, Metal accounted for 46.76 tons or 93,520 pounds, Rubbish accounted for 80.6 tons or 161,200 pounds. Knight said on average the cleanup took in 54,962 pounds of trash for each Saturday.

Four county employees and three Lincoln County Jail trustees helped with the garbage collection. 

“The trustees were our main people. They worked hard, everything worked really well,” Knight said. “We put in a total of 245 man hours. Everything went so well. Thank you to the Green Meadows employees who were there to help out, thanks for their cooperation with this event. Thank you to Donnie King for supplying bins for metal and electronics. Thank you to all of the people who came out and all the help we had.” 

Knight said he hopes to host a fall cleanup day and perhaps a day for appliances like washers, stoves, dryers and refrigerators.