Bulloch County, GA Trash & Recycling: Collection Schedule (2026)

Bulloch County Code § 8-53 places the collection, transportation and disposal of refuse under the supervision and control of the county manager, who may delegate that authority to the environmental manager. The environmental manager decides the routes and days of collection, the types and locations of refuse containers, and any other matter needed to run the system, and can change or modify those decisions as conditions require. That means residential pickup days are set administratively rather than fixed in the code itself, which lets the environmental manager adjust routes as the unincorporated county grows around the Hyundai Metaplant and Statesboro's edges.

Section 8-54 backs the county's control of the system with a licensing requirement: it is unlawful for anyone to collect solid waste within the county, except from their own residence, business or industrial property, without first obtaining a permit or license from both the Georgia Department of Natural Resources and Bulloch County. That keeps unlicensed haulers from running competing routes and lets the environmental manager coordinate service, container standards under § 8-55, and pre-collection rules under § 8-57 across the whole unincorporated area from a single point of authority.