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

Code § 7-82 defines 'bulky waste' to cover large household appliances such as washing machines, clothes dryers, water heaters, stoves, refrigerators and dishwashers, along with furniture, tree stumps, large timber, car bodies, large bundles of carpet waste (a nod to Whitfield County's carpet-industry base), large packing containers, and tanks, essentially anything whose volume normal compaction cannot meaningfully reduce. Because carpet manufacturing generates enormous volumes of bulky scrap in this county, the ordinance treats bulky waste as a distinct category requiring its own disposal path. Code § 7-91(e) groups bulky waste with asbestos, construction or demolition debris, and scrap tires, and requires all of it to go only at a solid waste handling facility operated by the Authority or at such other solid waste handling facility as designated by the Authority, subject to the Authority board of directors' policies and procedures and any environmental protection division rules that apply.

That means a resident or contractor cannot simply set an old refrigerator or a load of demolition debris out with routine household garbage collection or haul it to an unapproved dump; it has to go through the Authority's designated bulky-waste channel, and a permitted collector under Code § 7-85 remains the one authorized to pick it up and transport it if a hauler is used rather than self-hauling.