Barrow County, GA Trash & Recycling: Bulk Item Disposal (2026)

Section 78-37(e) sits in the same property-maintenance section of the Debris and Waste Control Environmental Ordinance (chapter 78, article II) that covers routine litter and grass upkeep. It puts the cost and the arrangement of pickup on the property owner: when furniture, appliances, machinery or other oversized litter or trash is discarded, the owner must arrange removal and disposal at his own expense, rather than leaving it for the county's regular contracted service. The section singles out appliances capable of trapping a child, refrigerators, iceboxes, freezers, washers, dryers and stoves, and flatly bars leaving any of them in a spot accessible to children while they wait to be hauled away.

A time trigger backs up the rule: any such bulky item left outside on private property for seven days or more, unless it is part of an authorized business operation such as a repair shop or dealer's lot, is presumed to have been discarded. Once that presumption applies, the county can give reasonable notice and then remove the item itself, billing the property owner for the cost under the same cost-recovery mechanism in section 78-35 that applies to litter cleanup generally. Inspection and enforcement fall to the county's code enforcement officers and other law enforcement officials responsible for county and state law.