Johns Creek, GA Trash & Recycling: Collection Schedule (2026)
Key Facts
- Minimum service
- weekly garbage + recycling
- Collection hours
- 7:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m.
- Service is mandatory
- yes, for every address
- Enforcement
- public works director
Summary
Every Johns Creek household and business must be served by a city-registered hauler for weekly garbage and recycling pickup, and collection trucks can only run between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m.
It shall be the responsibility of each citizen both residential and commercial to be served by a waste hauler from the city's approved, registered, and contracted solid waste list or from city operated services. Failure to be served by either an approved, registered, and contracted city hauler or from services offered by the city's own manpower shall result in a violation of this chapter.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 23 Update 1).
Full Breakdown
§ 42-4 makes it every citizen's and business's responsibility to be served by a hauler on the city's approved, registered, contracted list, or by city-operated service; going unserved is itself a Code violation. § 42-19(a) sets the floor at once-a-week garbage and once-a-week recycling pickup for residential units citywide. § 42-40(c) restricts collection hours: "collection shall not start before 7:00 a.m. or continue after 7:00 p.m.," with exceptions decided case by case by the city manager for genuine emergencies.
Violations & Fines
Going unserved by a registered hauler violates § 42-4; a hauler running collection outside the 7 a.m.-7 p.m. window without city approval violates § 42-40(c).
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