Lumpkin County

TRANSFER STATION INFORMATION The Lumpkin County Transfer Station is operated by Mark Robinson Hauling and is located on Barlow Road in Dahlonega. Hours of operation are 8:00 am until 4:30 Monday through Saturday. The tipping fee is $1.00 per bag or $35 per ton. Recycling is available at the large trailer located at the Transfer Station and at three other locations in Lumpkin County. For more information on the locations please look below. Materials accepted are mixed paper, corrugated cardboard, # 1 and #2 plastics (lids removed and rinsed please) and aluminum cans.

GOVERNOR'S CLEAN COMMUNITY CHALLANGE

Keep Our Mountains Beautiful/Lumpkin County has taken up the Governor's Clean Community Challange. The first step is to get input from Lumpkin County residents on thier opinion of litter. Thank you for taking the time to fill out the Litter Awareness Survey!

Click on this link to begin the Litter Awareness Survey

ADOPT-A-ROAD PROGRAM IN LUMPKIN COUNTY!
The Adopt-A-Road Program is being reintroduced to Lumpkin County residents.
Citizens, organizations, buisnesses and civic groups may now adopt any County road in Lumpkin County.
The requirements are that a minimum of one mile of road be adopted, unless the road is not a mile in length. The road must be picked up a minimum of four times a year and the number of workers, hours worked and bags of trash picked up be reported back to us so that the information can be sent into the State.
We provide the forms to adopt your road and safety information along with stickers for your bags to be disposed of at the transfer station at no charge. Also, orange vests may be available. We have a limited amount so request yours early!
For more information or to order an Adopt-A-Road application, please download the application below, print it out, fill it in and send to the address on the forms..

Download Adopt-A-Road forms here

LUMPKIN COUNTY RESIDENTS RECYCLED 500,006 POUNDS OF MATERIALS IN 2006 AT THE FOLLOWING LOCACTIONS

1642 Red Oaks Flat Road
1961 Highway 19 North
130 Longbranch Road
The County Transfer Station

All of these convenience sites are located in Dahlonega and will accept paper, cardboard, aluminum cans, and #1 & #2 plastic bottles. NO HOUSEHOLD TRASH WILL BE ACCEPTED AT ANY OF THESE SITES.
The Transfer Station will continue to accept recyclables in addition to household garbage. At this site only, recyclable materials can be co-mingled.

In 2006, Lumpkin County residents recycled 500,006 pounds of recyclables. We encourage all citizens to recycle at the four different centers provide by the County. While 250 tons is a lot of materials, we can do better. For information on recycling please contact Keep Our Mountains Beautiful at komb@alltel.net

If you would like to participate in any of our programs,need additional information or have suggestions on programs you would like us to consider, please feel free to contact us using this information request form.
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THE GLASS ISSUE

We wanted to take a moment to address the issue of glass recycling.

As many of you may know, we are unable to accept glass for recycling. This is due to several reasons but the biggest of these is the fact that we are no longer able to market glass.

Recycling means that a commodity is removed from the waste stream, remanufactured into a new product and then resold. This is also known as “Closing the Loop”. If we separated glass but are unable to sell it, we are not recycling, we are merely storing it.

At the present time, due to the cost of transportation, the glass recyclers are requiring that we provide them with full semi-trailer loads of each individual color of glass in order to accept our materials. This is unfortunate as we do not have the space to house three such trailers at our county’s facility. Based on the small amounts generated, it would take several years to fill one trailer.

Another problem is that if even one colored bottle gets broken into a different colored batch of glass, the entire load must be disposed of as the recycler will not accept the trailer into their facility. This is a problem as we cannot allocate a full-time person to man the trailers to ensure the materials do not get contaminated.

There is some “good” news however. Glass is a renewable resource, meaning that it is made of sand and heat and both are readily available. Glass is an inert material that does not rust, rot or decompose in any way. If glass is landfilled it does not impact the earth in any negative fashion.

As the closest facility is located south of the Atlanta Airport, another factor that needs to be taken into considerations is the fuel, oil, rubber tire dust and air emissions created by transporting materials over 100 miles to take a trailer to the glass recycler.

Please know that we are very aware of the interest of our citizens in recycling glass. Based on the information above, currently it is not possible for us to do so at this time. Should the fuel prices decline, making our glass of more interest to the recycling industry, we will revisit this issue.

Thank you for your continued patronage of our recycling centers and if we can be of further service please call Leslie George at 706-894-2785 or Cindy Reed at 706-677-2344

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1,986,141 POUNDS OF MATERIALS RECYCLED IN 2007