Hall County, GA Trash & Recycling: Recycling Requirements (2026)
Key Facts
- Cardboard allowance
- Up to 10 percent of a load
- Hauler 1st violation
- Written warning + prevailing rate
- Hauler 2nd+ violation
- Warning + 3x prevailing rate surcharge
- Facility operator 2nd violation
- $500.00 penalty
- Facility operator 3rd+ violation
- $1,000.00 penalty
- Inspecting agency
- Hall County Department of Public Works
Summary
Hall County caps how much recyclable corrugated cardboard private disposal facilities may accept for burial: anything over a ten percent allowance is a violation, and haulers or facility operators who exceed it face escalating written warnings and rate surcharges up to three times the standard tipping fee.
B.Provisions for recycling corrugated cardboard and violations of this section are as follows:...3.It shall be considered to be a violation of this section for private disposal facility operators to accept for disposal recyclable corrugated cardboard in excess of the ten percent allowance.C.Penalties for the disposal of recyclable corrugated cardboard at the Hall County landfill and all other disposal facilities in unincorporated Hall County shall be determined as follows:1.For the first violation by any given solid waste hauler, a written warning and charged the prevailing rate.2.For the second and subsequent violations by any given solid waste hauler, a written warning and charged a surcharge three times the prevailing rate.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 80).
Full Breakdown
190 of the Hall County Code creates a cardboard-diversion program aimed at meeting the goals of the Georgia Comprehensive Solid Waste Management Act. 190(B)(3) makes it a violation for a private disposal facility operator to accept recyclable cardboard for disposal in excess of a ten percent allowance. Disposal facilities permitted to accept cardboard must provide suitable recycling containers on-site, and facility operators who catch a violating load must notify Hall County Resource Recovery immediately, including when the load was dumped and which hauler brought it in, to avoid being penalized themselves.
190(C): a written warning plus the prevailing rate for a first violation, and a written warning plus a surcharge of three times the prevailing rate for a second or later violation. 00 for a third or subsequent violation. 190(F).
Violations & Fines
Haulers face a written warning plus the standard tipping rate on a first over-threshold cardboard load, then a written warning plus a surcharge of three times that rate on every later load, under section 8.60.190(C). Disposal facility operators who knowingly let violating loads through face a written warning, then a $500.00 penalty, then $1,000.00 for a third or later violation, under section 8.60.190(D).
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sources & Official References
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