What is the Brown County Solid Waste Management District?

According to the Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM), a solid waste management district (SWMD) is a "local county’s authority for information about recycling, yard waste, and household hazardous waste (HHW) services. An SWMD tracks material that is recycled, processed, or sent for final disposal (placed in landfills or incinerated). It also conducts recycling and household hazardous waste collection events as well as community outreach and education activities."

The Brown County Solid Waste Management District, commonly called the Recycling Center, is a government agency that was established in 1991 to serve all of Brown County, Indiana, including Nashville and the Cordry-Sweetwater area. In 1995 Brown County adopted open dumping and open burning ordinances that closely mirror Indiana’s dumping and burning laws.