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.
Under Code of Clayton County Sec. 78-7(6), 'solid waste' does not include refrigerators, washing machines, hot water heaters, other large appliances, machinery, discarded furniture, rocks, dirt, scrap metal, scrap building material, automobile tires or auto parts, motorized vehicles, or large bulky items that cannot be compacted by a regulation garbage truck. Owners who want these items collected must arrange an individual contract with a hauler of their choice. Yard trimmings (grass clippings, leaves, pine straw, small shrubs, limbs, branches) are separated out and may be taken to the Clayton County Inert Landfill at 11678 Hastings Bridge Road in Lovejoy. The county also holds periodic Trash Amnesty Days for residents to drop off bulky and hard-to-dispose items.
Setting out excluded bulky items for regular collection, or dumping them, is not proper disposal; illegal dumping is separately prosecutable (Sec. 62-30.1, 62-304). Chapter 78 violations are misdemeanors under Sec. 78-16, each day a separate offense.
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