Trash & Recycling in Georgia (2026)

Atlanta provides curbside trash and recycling collection for single-family and small multi-family residences (1–3…

Garbage in the Urban Services District's residential areas must be at the curb by 8:00 a.m. on collection day and…

Bartow County runs no municipal curbside pickup in the unincorporated area; private and commercial haulers who collect…

Carroll County restricts its dumpster, bin and green-box receptacles to household waste from county residents under…

Chatham County requires unincorporated-area residents to prepare, separate and store curbside waste under specific…

Clayton County requires refuse contractors to collect residential solid waste at least once a week, using metal or…

Cobb County requires residential customers to bag and tie trash before setout, while recyclables must go loose into the…

Columbia County runs no county-wide curbside garbage service. Unincorporated residents in Evans, Martinez, and the…

Columbus, Georgia sets exact curbside windows for trash carts: containers can go out starting 5:30 p.m. the evening…

Coweta County runs no county curbside route. Unincorporated residents either subscribe to a county-licensed private…

Once you set out trash for collection in unincorporated Floyd County, only the owner or an authorized collection worker…

Forsyth County limits residential trash pickup to a set weekly window: licensed collectors may service residential…

Owners in unincorporated Fulton County's garbage collection districts must use a closed can or container of the size…

Gwinnett requires residential solid waste to go out in a county-provided 95-gallon cart, with no overage except during…

At Hall County's solid waste compactor and container sites, household garbage must be bagged in sturdy, closed paper or…

Marietta lets residents set recycling bins curbside after 5:00 p.m. the night before pickup, but once material is…

Paulding County has no curbside pickup ordinance; residents and haulers take waste to the county transfer station…

Rockdale County Code § 78-7 requires every owner, occupant, tenant and lessee of a commercial, institutional or…

Roswell's curbside collectors won't take vehicle batteries or hazardous waste, and setting them out for pickup is a…

South Fulton requires every home, business and property that generates solid waste to use the city's own collection…

Unincorporated Walton County residents must set refuse receptacles, rubbish and bundles at the roadside on their…

In unincorporated Whitfield County, only a collector holding a valid permit under Code § 7-85 may pick up your…

Sec. 78-7 requires Acworth residents to roll their city-issued 95-gallon sanitation cart to the curb by 6:30 a.m. on…

Atlanta requires trash and recycling carts to sit between the sidewalk and curb, no more than ten feet out, and bars…

Augusta-Richmond County zoning rules require dumpster and recycling bin pads to sit on concrete, clear of parking…

In unincorporated Carroll County, Georgia, there is no curbside pickup; residents haul household garbage to county-run…

In the City of Savannah, residential refuse carts should be placed at curbside by 7 a.m. on collection day and removed…

Cherokee County's Code of Ordinances requires every dwelling's garbage cans to be rat-proofed, insect-proofed…

In unincorporated Clayton County, refuse containers stay behind the building line until the scheduled pickup day, when…

Cobb County limits how long garbage carts can sit streetside: no earlier than 6 p.m. the evening before pickup, gone by…

Trash placed in a Columbia County receptacle can't be allowed to overflow or block the lid from closing, and it must…

Columbus, Georgia limits residential garbage and recycling carts to curbside placement no earlier than 5:30 p.m. the…

Coweta County requires occupants of single-family, condo, and multifamily homes not served by a common dumpster to set…

Decatur, Georgia tells residents exactly where garbage carts must sit between pickups and exactly when they can hit the…

In unincorporated DeKalb County, residents must move garbage carts off the curb into a storage spot closer to the house…

Dunwoody requires refuse and recycling containers to be hidden from public view. A solid wall or opaque fence at least…

Unincorporated Floyd County residents can't stockpile refuse outside a home or building unless it's in proper…

Set carts at the curb per your private hauler's instructions. County code defines the curbside setout zone as no more…

Unincorporated Gwinnett residents may not roll garbage carts to the curb before 3:30 p.m. the day before pickup and…

Henry County requires unincorporated-area residents to set refuse at the curb no earlier than dusk the day before…

Houston County residents must place solid waste carts at the curbside pickup spot by 7:00 a.m. on the scheduled…

Johns Creek residents can't put waste and recycling carts out earlier than 24 hours before pickup and must pull them…

Macon-Bibb County tells residents exactly where to put solid waste carts for pickup under Code § 22-9: next to the…

Marietta requires garbage containers to be weatherproofed and animal-proofed when stored outside, kept at the rear of…

For unincorporated Newton County households on curbside pickup, section 42-65(e)(2) fixes a strict set-out window…

With no county curbside program, Paulding's rules focus on keeping garbage containers clean and off the road edge…

Under the Unified Development Ordinance (Title 2 of the Code), commercial dumpsters in unincorporated Rockdale County…

Roswell, Georgia (Fulton County) requires household garbage and recycling carts at the curb no earlier than 6:00 p.m…

Sandy Springs bars trash and recycling containers from sitting in the public right-of-way and from blocking sidewalks…

South Fulton limits where residential trash and recycling carts can sit under Sec. 6-2004.7: no more than two feet from…

Section 46-41 tells unincorporated Walton County residents when and where to put out trash: receptacles go roadside no…

Warner Robins requires automated refuse carts curbside by 7 a.m. on collection day and off the street by 7 p.m., set no…

Acworth collects large appliances and furniture under Sec. 78-9, but only after a resident calls ahead to schedule the…

Atlanta provides bulk item pickup service for residential properties through the Department of Public Works. Residents…

Augusta-Richmond County collects brush, limbs and rough trash on a set weekday schedule, but only if the pile meets…

Chatham County residents can self-haul bulky items and dry trash to county disposal sites; under Code §21-316 a…

Cherokee County keeps yard trimmings, leaves, brush and prunings separate from household garbage: they cannot go into…

Clayton County's regular collection excludes large appliances, furniture, tires, and other bulky items that a…

Columbia County offers no county-wide bulk curbside pickup. Large items like appliances and furniture go through your…

Columbus, Georgia's solid waste code lets the Department of Public Works collect bulky junk that will not fit in a…

Coweta County has no bulk curbside day. Large items like furniture, appliances, and mattresses cannot go in compactor…

Furniture and worn-out appliances get their own curbside rules in Decatur, Georgia: large trash that won't fit in a bag…

Unincorporated Floyd County residents get one free yard debris pickup per quarter under Floyd County Code § 2-7-66/67…

Forsyth County provides no curbside bulk pickup. Bulky waste like appliances and furniture goes through your private…

Registered haulers in unincorporated Fulton County collect worn-out appliances and discarded furniture at curbside on…

Gwinnett County defines bulky waste as items over three feet or 50 pounds and has each residential service provider…

Henry County requires licensed haulers to collect worn-out appliances, furniture, and tires at least weekly, with an…

Houston County collects bulky waste, like furniture and white goods, once a week alongside regular garbage under…

Johns Creek's basic residential service includes bulky trash collection once a month, covering large items like…

Bricks, broken concrete, lumber, ashes, sand, gravel, automobile frames, and dead trees don't get picked up with the…

Marietta's public works department collects household garbage, recyclables and yard trimmings under 200 cubic feet…

Paulding has no county bulk-pickup day. Residents haul large items to the county landfill; appliances with freon carry…

Rockdale County Code § 78-9 requires bulk trash from holidays, moving or cleanup to be bundled to no more than 50…

Large items like appliances, furniture, carpet and mattresses aren't part of routine Roswell garbage service: residents…

South Fulton collects one cubic yard of bulk waste per residential account monthly at no charge; anything placed…

Warner Robins collects one bulk trash pile per address per week, capped at a five-by-ten-foot pile, set out between the…

Large household items in unincorporated Whitfield County, think old washing machines, refrigerators, furniture, tree…

Newton County does not run a curbside bulk pickup program: under section 42-66(i), property owners must remove their…

Georgia prohibits disposing of yard trimmings in municipal solid waste landfills. Grass, leaves, and limbs may only go…

Acworth does not run a residential curbside recycling route; instead Code § 54-92(b) regulates the city's designated…

Atlanta provides single-stream recycling collection for residential properties. The city's recycling program accepts…

Augusta-Richmond County's zoning ordinance requires multi-family and B-1 business developments to provide dumpsters and…

Chatham County Code §21-408 establishes a recycling program at county drop-off centers and encourages all residents, in…

Georgia law, incorporated in Clayton County Sec. 78-7(4), bans yard trimmings from municipal landfills. Grass, leaves…

Unincorporated Cobb County requires every permitted residential collector to offer recyclable-materials pickup on a…

Columbia County bars mixing yard trimmings, grass clippings, leaves, pine straw, shrubbery, and limbs, into regular…

Columbus, Georgia's commercial and institutional solid waste rate bundles a mandatory 95-gallon curbside recyclables…

Apartment and condo properties in Decatur, Georgia with more than four units that aren't on city residential pickup…

Registered haulers serving unincorporated Fulton County must provide curbside recycling collection, including a…

Hall County caps how much recyclable corrugated cardboard private disposal facilities may accept for burial: anything…

Henry County bars excluded items like batteries and tires from the regular waste stream and requires every residential…

Johns Creek requires registered haulers to collect recyclables weekly for every residence and business, using…

Macon-Bibb County runs a single-stream recycling program: every residential and commercial user of county solid waste…

Marietta's recycling containers must be protected from animals and litter, with newspaper sacks set out after 5:00 p.m…

Unincorporated Rockdale County has no curbside recycling pickup: residents recycle by hauling material to the county…

Every residential waste hauler under contract with Sandy Springs must offer curbside recycling to single-family…

Recycling pickup in unincorporated Gwinnett County is opt-in: a resident must contact the area's residential service…

Roswell collects household recycling citywide and will give every occupied residence a curbside recycling container on…

South Fulton may provide recycling collection bins through its service provider, and residents who receive one must…

Walton County requires every licensed hauler to offer curbside recycling under Sec. 46-39(3), but participation is…

Recycling is voluntary in Coweta County. Georgia has no residential recycling mandate. The county takes recyclables…

Recycling is voluntary in Forsyth County; there is no residential recycling mandate. Residents drop off recyclables…

Cobb County doesn't cancel trash pickup for holidays: it shifts it. Code of Ordinances § 102-70(2) requires every…

In unincorporated Walton County, licensed residential haulers must still pick up trash at least once during any week…

Augusta-Richmond County suspends garbage collection on holidays, in both the business and residential collection…

The Macon-Bibb County landfill normally shuts down on all observed city holidays, and it only reopens if the Director…

South Fulton observes up to six holidays a year, including New Year's Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas, when service…

Atlanta bans dumping garbage, trash or solid waste on any public or private property, with or without the owner's…

Dumping garbage, refuse, dead animals or other offensive matter on any road, private property without the owner's…

Clayton County's Litter Control Code (Sec. 62-30.1) makes it unlawful to dump or leave litter on any public or private…

Dumping, throwing, or leaving litter on public or private property in unincorporated Cobb County is a misdemeanor under…

Dumping litter, waste, or scrap tires anywhere in unincorporated Columbia County is unlawful unless it goes to a…

Columbus, Georgia bans dumping solid waste, noxious materials, or offensive liquids on any land, street, or waterway…

Coweta County bans dumping litter, abandoned furniture, or household trash on public or private property or in county…

Dumping litter on public or private property or waters in Fayette County is banned outright under Code § 16-137, with…

Dumping solid waste on public rights-of-way, parks, or facilities in unincorporated Fulton County violates the solid…

Henry County bans dumping litter on any public or private property or in county waters unless it goes to a designated…

Dumping junk, trash, or yard waste on a Macon-Bibb County street, sidewalk, alley, or into the storm drainage system…

Dumping, depositing or throwing solid waste on any road, street or public or private property in unincorporated Newton…

Dumping or leaving litter on any public or private property or in county waters is illegal under Paulding County's…

Illegal dumping anywhere in unincorporated Rockdale County, on a public road, right-of-way, waterway or someone else's…

Sandy Springs bans dumping, throwing or leaving litter on any public or private property or waters in the city, and…

Walton County bans open dumping of solid waste on any property in the unincorporated area under Sec. 46-35(c). A…

Bartow County Code § 62-182 punishes improper or unpermitted dumping at county solid waste facilities with escalating…

Cherokee County makes it illegal to throw or deposit litter on any private property, whether you own it or not, under §…

Dumping refuse, building material or discarded vehicle parts anywhere in Decatur, Georgia without city commission…

Dumping, throwing or leaving litter on public or private property in unincorporated DeKalb is unlawful unless it's your…

Unincorporated Gwinnett County makes it unlawful to dump or leave litter on public or private property or waters, with…

South Fulton bars dumping litter or waste on any public or private property or into the city's streams and stormwater…

Acworth Code § 54-92(a) bans intentionally dumping 'egregious litter' anywhere in the city without a permit, covering…

Augusta-Richmond County bans dumping or leaving litter on any public or private property without authorization, and…

Chatham County Code §21-313 makes it unlawful to dump, deposit, or leave litter on any public or private property in…

Dunwoody's litter-control ordinance bans dumping, depositing or throwing litter on any public or private property or…

Unincorporated Floyd County requires all solid waste to go to a licensed disposal site, and bans dumping vehicle…

Dumping, depositing, throwing or leaving litter on any public or private property or waters in Hall County is unlawful…

It is unlawful in Houston County to dump or bury garbage, refuse, or rubbish anywhere in the solid waste district…

Dumping, throwing, or leaving litter on public or private property or waters in Johns Creek is punishable by a $200 to…

Marietta bans dumping waste into streets, streams or sewers, or placing trash on property or in a container different…

Dumping or littering on public or private property or waters in Roswell is unlawful, punishable by a fine of $200 to…

Warner Robins forbids letting any property in the city become 'a dumping place for rubbish of all kinds and…

Dumping litter on public or private property or waters in unincorporated Whitfield County is banned under Sec. 7.5-52…

Acworth picks up yard waste and dry items once a week under Sec. 78-8, but only if clippings and limbs are bagged or…

Atlanta requires single-family residents to bag yard trimmings separately from trash in city-approved paper bags or…

Augusta-Richmond County requires grass, leaves, and shrubbery trimmings to be bagged, and brush and limbs bundled under…

Unincorporated Bartow County residents may not put yard trimmings, leaves, brush, grass clippings and prunings out for…

Chatham County runs a weekly curbside pickup for yard waste, leaves, pine straw, grass clippings and brush, plus a…

Cherokee County bans mixing yard trimmings, leaves, brush, grass clippings and Christmas trees into household trash or…

Since September 1, 1996, Cobb County has banned mixing yard trimmings with municipal solid waste anywhere in…

Columbus, Georgia collects leaves, grass clippings, and yard trimmings on scheduled days, and requires cut branches and…

The City of Decatur, DeKalb County, Georgia keeps yard trimmings out of the regular trash stream and sets hard limits…

Unincorporated DeKalb County residents must keep yard trimmings separate from household trash and set them out in an…

Unincorporated Fayette County bans yard trimmings, leaves, brush, grass clippings and Christmas trees from the landfill…

Floyd County residents adjacent to a county right-of-way get one free yard debris pickup per quarter, up to three cubic…

Unincorporated Fulton County haulers must collect yard trimmings curbside at least every other week, but Fulton County…

Gwinnett caps optional yard trimmings collection at $10.00 a month per residential service unit, with a discount for a…

Hall County's solid waste code keeps yard trimmings out of the sanitary landfill and every county compactor site…

Houston County collects residential yard waste curbside once a week alongside garbage and bulky waste, but only if it's…

Johns Creek requires registered haulers to collect yard trimmings from every residential address at least once a week…

Macon-Bibb County picks up yard trimmings every two weeks, but the code sets strict limits on how you set it out…

Marietta requires yard trimmings and brush at curbside before 7:00 a.m. on collection day, cut to six-foot lengths with…

Newton County Code lets residents compost yard trimmings, leaves and branches on their own property, or requires the…

Rockdale County Code § 78-14(b) bars mixing yard trimmings with regular household trash and bans sending them to a…

Roswell requires yard waste bagged in 30- to 50-gallon Kraft paper sacks or similar containers, caps routine weekly…

South Fulton residents may set yard debris curbside up to 72 hours before pickup, placed behind the curb line and at…

Warner Robins picks up yard trimmings twice a month, one pile per address, capped at a five-by-ten-foot load. Cut limbs…

In unincorporated Whitfield County, yard trimmings such as leaves, brush, grass clippings and tree prunings cannot be…

Placing a roll-off dumpster on an Atlanta street or right-of-way requires a Department of Transportation permit, proof…

Chatham County requires multi-family, commercial, institutional and industrial properties to keep garbage in engineered…

Forsyth County bans dumpsters in every residential district except for multifamily communities or short-term…

Acworth requires commercial dumpsters to sit inside a three-sided solid enclosure with a matching opaque gate, placed…

Augusta-Richmond County's B-1 business zone requires trash and recycling dumpsters on a concrete pad, clear of parking…

In unincorporated Bartow County, any hauler collecting commercial, industrial, institutional or municipal waste…

Along Carroll County, Georgia's designated highway corridors, the Corridor Development Plan at Carroll County Code §…

Cherokee County requires every dumpster and drop box to carry a lid that stays closed except when in use, keeping…

Clayton County's zoning ordinance requires every permanent dumpster or trash refuse area in the unincorporated county…

Cobb County limits homeowners to one temporary dumpster, placed on a hardened surface, for up to 30 days per year in…

Every dumpster or waste container in unincorporated Columbia County must stay sanitary and closed, under section 70-7…

Columbus, Georgia requires commercial and multifamily dumpsters to sit at least 25 feet from a residential zoning…

In the City of Decatur, DeKalb County, Georgia, every commercial establishment, condominium or multiple dwelling must…

Construction dumpsters and other onsite waste-disposal equipment can't sit in the street in unincorporated DeKalb…

Nonresidential dumpster and refuse areas in unincorporated Fayette County must sit to the side or rear of the principal…

Every lot in unincorporated Fulton County improved with anything other than a single-family home must show its refuse…

Commercial dumpsters in unincorporated Gwinnett County must sit in a rear or side yard, never the front, at least 5…

Within Hall County's Gateway Corridor Overlay District, new commercial, office, institutional and industrial buildings…

In Johns Creek's Town Center Overlay, trash and recycling dumpsters must sit to the side or rear of the building and be…

Commercial properties in Macon-Bibb County must store solid waste in county-furnished wheeled carts or in a dumpster…

Marietta bans parking a bulk container in a public right-of-way without a public works permit. Bulk containers must be…

Sec. 226-3 of the county's Unified Development Ordinance requires commercial dumpsters in unincorporated Rockdale…

Commercial dumpsters in Roswell must sit exactly where the environmental/public works director directs; a blocked or…

South Fulton requires every commercial and residential dumpster installed after the ordinance's effective date to be…

In unincorporated Walton County, commercial dumpsters must sit on a concrete pad located to the rear of the building…

Warner Robins commercial dumpster customers must keep the container site free of litter and debris, and can share a…

Commercial dumpsters and roll-off containers used to collect solid waste in unincorporated Whitfield County must meet…

Sec. 78-3 requires every single-family and two-family dwelling in Acworth to carry city solid waste service, and Sec…

Augusta-Richmond County runs two garbage schedules inside the Urban Services District: nightly weekday pickup in the…

Anyone providing solid waste collection service in unincorporated Carroll County must collect at least once a week, and…

Every property owner and occupant in unincorporated Chatham County must clear away accumulating household trash at…

Clayton County requires its licensed sanitation contractors to pick up residential garbage at least once a week, and…

Cobb County requires every permitted residential hauler working the unincorporated area to collect household trash at…

Every household, business and multifamily building in Columbus, Georgia must keep enough approved solid waste…

Coweta County requires every licensed hauler to provide at least weekly curbside collection of residential solid waste…

Decatur, Georgia runs residential refuse and recycling pickup once a week by code, with commercial properties and…

Unincorporated DeKalb County residents get residential refuse collected twice a week by the county, except oversized…

In unincorporated Fulton County, registered haulers must provide weekly curbside collection of household solid waste…

Unincorporated Gwinnett County splits into five residential service areas, each served by one contracted hauler under a…

Hall County does not run curbside pickup routes for unincorporated residents; instead, section 8.60.040 requires the…

Henry County requires every licensee to provide weekly curbside collection of residential solid waste, with uniform…

Houston County runs mandatory once-a-week garbage collection and twice-monthly recycling pickup for every residential…

Every Johns Creek household and business must be served by a city-registered hauler for weekly garbage and recycling…

Every developed residential and commercial property in Macon-Bibb County is entitled to at least one garbage pickup a…

Marietta's public works department is the only lawful collector for single-family and two-family homes, running weekly…

In unincorporated Newton County, every household must clear its trash at least once a week under County Code Sec…

The City of Roswell collects household garbage, recycling and yard waste itself: private haulers aren't permitted…

Sandy Springs limits residential and commercial waste collection to the hours between 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m., Monday…

South Fulton collects residential solid waste at least once a week under Sec. 6-2003.4(a), with businesses ordering…

Licensed haulers in unincorporated Walton County must run residential collection between 7:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. under…

Warner Robins collects residential garbage once a week and requires carts placed curbside 2 to 4 feet from the roadway…

Floyd County's solid waste director organizes and runs the county's publicly owned collection, transportation and…

Atlanta requires recyclables to go loose into city-issued bins, never bagged, and randomly inspects routes for…

Bartow County Code § 62-181 requires anyone dropping off waste at a county solid waste collection center to be a…

Hall County's solid waste code requires haulers and disposal facilities in the unincorporated county to keep recyclable…

Marietta bars anyone but the city or its authorized contractor from removing recyclables set out for collection. The…

Unincorporated Walton County haulers must collect residents' voluntary recycling, glass, newspaper, plastic PET and…

Newton County treats recycling as voluntary, not curbside-mandated: unincorporated residents can separate recyclable…