5 rules for unincorporated Clayton County, Georgia.
Verified from official government sources
Unincorporated Clayton County is served by private licensed haulers, not a county curbside route. Contractors must provide at least once-per-week residential collection (Sec. 78-7). Anyone collecting solid waste for a fee must be licensed by the county.
Code of Clayton County, GA Sec. 78-7(2)
Collection schedule. Contractors must provide a minimum of once per week residential collection.
In unincorporated Clayton County, refuse containers stay behind the building line until the scheduled pickup day, when they may be set out no closer than ten feet from the sidewalk or right-of-way. Permanent containers must be returned to the rear the same day (Sec. 78-6).
Code of Clayton County, GA Sec. 78-6
Containers for the storage of refuse shall be kept to the rear of the building line of the customer until the day scheduled for pickup, at which time it may be placed no closer than ten feet of the sidewalk or right-of-way.
Clayton County's regular collection excludes large appliances, furniture, tires, and other bulky items that a regulation garbage truck cannot compact (Sec. 78-7(6)). Residents must arrange a separate contract, and yard trimmings go to the county's inert landfill in Lovejoy.
Code of Clayton County, GA Sec. 78-7(6)
Solid waste, as used in the within chapter, does not include such items as refrigerators, washing machines, hot water heaters, any other large appliances, machinery or discarded furniture, rocks, dirt, scrap metal, scrap building material, automobile tires or any part of automobiles, motorized vehicles or large bulky items which cannot be compacted by a regulation garbage truck.
Georgia law, incorporated in Clayton County Sec. 78-7(4), bans yard trimmings from municipal landfills. Grass, leaves, and limbs must be separated from household garbage in cans (no plastic bags). The county offers drop-off recycling; there is no mandatory curbside recycling for residents.
Code of Clayton County, GA Sec. 78-7(4)
Effective September 1, 1996, state law requires yard trimmings be banned from disposal in municipal landfills. Grass clippings, leaves, pine straw, small shrubs, limbs, branches, etc., shall be separated from household garbage and placed in plastic or metal containers (plastic bags are prohibited) to be picked up by the contract hauler.
Clayton County's Litter Control Code (Sec. 62-30.1) makes it unlawful to dump or leave litter on any public or private property or waters in the unincorporated county without authorization. Scrap-tire dumping is separately banned (Sec. 62-304). Violations are misdemeanors with cleanup orders.
Code of Clayton County, GA Sec. 62-30.1(a)
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to dump, deposit, throw or leave litter or to cause or permit the dumping, depositing, placing or throwing, or leaving of litter on any public or private property or waters in the unincorporated areas of the county.
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