Once a week, General Manager Shelly Brett loads her truck with a week's worth of glass bottles, aluminum cans, and cardboard, and delivers the debris to the closest recycling drop-off center.

"Everyday I'm trying to make improvements on how we can be more green," Brett said.

Morgantown Brewing only sells its beer for take-out in half-gallon growlers, which eliminates the use of bottles and cans. Patrons then can bring the growlers back for a refill. The Company also recycles leftover brewing ingredients.

"The grain goes to a farmer and he uses that to feed his cattle," said Brew Master Brian Anderson. It's a win-win situation because he gets some extra feed."

Brett wishes she knew of more establishments in Morgantown that made similar efforts.

"Seeing it now, on a personal level, how much cardboard we go through being a restaurant... I take eight to 12 bags of cardboard alone to the dump," Brett said. "Let alone 30 bags of bottles. So I mean, if that's a small step then everybody should be doing it."

However, everybody does not do it.

In Morgantown, there is a law requiring businesses to recycle a portion of their waste, according to Tom Arnold, Chairman of the Solid Waste Advisory Board. But he said the issue is complicated. For one, expanding recycling pick-up costs the city and its contracted hauling company. Each dumpster costs about $800, Arnold said. Further, Morgantown authorities fear businesses would leave if the law was enforced.

"If they go right outside the city limits they're not required [to recycle]," Arnold said. "So then you're like, 'Okay, so if we do that, our tendency would be to drive businesses out,'"

Arnold said he hasn't seen a united interest in recycling from businesses.

"There's not an urgency to cut back on the amount of trash that goes into a landfill," he said.

For Anderson, the Brewery's various forms of recycling are worth the extra time.

"It's a good feeling that were not just tossing our bottles out," he said. "And the fact that we can help somebody out in the case of the farmer with the spent grain... that's a good feeling as well."

The Solid Waste Authority is working on a pay-as-you-throw program where residents must pay for every trash bag you put out. The program makes recycling bags free. Arnold hopes this will eventually increase recycling in Morgantown.