The Peachtree City Council is looking at spending $1 million to relocate the city’s recycling center from its current location on the south side to the former Flat Creek wastewater treatment plant farther north off Ga. Highway 74.

Doing so will require purchasing of the old sewer plant property, currently owned by the city’s Water and Sewer Authority and estimated to be worth roughly $400,000.

The 13-acre site would be accessed by a new road just north of the access road for the Peachtree City Police Department and across from Gill-Roy’s Got It hardware store, officials said.

The first phase of the new recycling center would include pick-up points for compost material and wood chips along with the traditional drop-off bins for recycling of newsprint and other material. There would also be a drop-off area for motor oil, transmission fluid and antifreeze.

Plans are also to have a hazardous waste trailer to accept paints, stains, cleaners, oils and fats with assistance from volunteers.

Part of the problem is that the current recycling site, at 3.5 acres off Rockaway Road, will be reduced further in size by the widening of Hwy. 74 South in the near future, city staff said.

Also, the tract is not large enough for an expansion of the recycling program, officials said.

City Manager Bernie McMullen said staff needed to look at financing options for the project.

At the old sewer plant site there’s enough room to expand the recycling center in the future.

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