Wareham’s recycling center may not see another full year.

At a Board of Selectmen meeting Tuesday night, Recycling Committee Chair Jennifer Gady and longtime center volunteer John Dixon appealed to the Board to put a proposal for more funding on the Town Meeting warrant.

Gady said the Wareham Recycling Drop-Off Center, located on Route 28/Plymouth Rd., may have to shut down Jan. 1, 2016 if it does not receive more funding. After being defunded at a Town Meeting in the spring of 2013, the center now runs entirely on donations of time and money.

Gady said the center alone can raise $3,945, but is asking the town for $5,000 more “to pad that account.”

“It costs us close to $9,000 to operate,” Grady said.

However, town counsel Richard Bowen said he had talked with Town Administrator Derek Sullivan and that Sullivan’s reaction to the request “was not enthusiastic.”

Selectman Peter Teitelbaum said this is because the town does not have an extra $5,000 to set aside.

“It would have to come out of something,” Teitelbaum said.

Grady said between 100 and 150 families use the facility per week.

“We actually take about 190,000 pounds of recyclable waste annually,” Grady said. “We are all very dedicated to this.”

Gady and Dixon asked the Selectmen to put the proposal for more funding on the warrant for Town Meeting. The Board voted unanimously to put the proposal on the warrant.