Clayton County, GA Trash & Recycling: Bulk Item Disposal (2026)
Key Facts
- Excluded from pickup
- Appliances, furniture, tires, bulky items
- How to dispose
- Separate individual hauler contract
- Yard trimmings
- Inert Landfill, Hastings Bridge Rd, Lovejoy
- County program
- Periodic Trash Amnesty Days
- Code section
- Sec. 78-7(6)
Summary
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.
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.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 104).
Full Breakdown
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.
Violations & Fines
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Will my hauler take an old refrigerator or couch?
Where do I take yard debris and bulky junk?
Sources & Official References
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