Solid Waste
Don Baynard, Director
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Landfill Procedures
The Rutherford County Landfill is located at the dead end of Laurel Hill Drive, which turns off Charlotte Road behind Hardee’s and Crowe’s Mortuary. The landfill will accept household garbage, demolition materials, brush and tree limbs, metal, white goods (which consist of refrigerators, stoves, washers, and dryers, hot water heaters, dishwashers, etc.), tires, oil, batteries, dead animals, everything except liquids, hazardous waste, insecticides, chemicals, etc. The landfill also accepts used computers for recycling.
There are 10 convenience centers located around the county. They will accept household garbage, furniture, metal, oil, batteries, used computers, aluminum cans, three colors of glass, plastic, cardboard and newspaper.
Upon entering the landfill, drive onto the scales; stop at the ‘stop’ sign and speaker. An attendant will ask what you are hauling and where it came from. You will then be directed where to put your items. After emptying your items, cross back over the scales so the weighmaster can determine how much weight was brought in. (1) Any house garbage goes into the transfer station or the yellow building on the left side of the road. (2) Any furniture or demolition materials will go to the #2 sign on the right to the top of the hill. (3) Yard waste (brush, limbs,) will go to the end to the right to the #3 sign. (ONLY YARD WASTE IS TO BE PUT IN THIS LOCATION!) (4) Any metal or white goods will be put in the metal pile on the right.
The following materials are not weighed, but we have to know how many batteries and tires are brought in.
(5) Oil will be poured into the green oil tank to the right of the metal pile. (6) Batteries will be placed in front or the shop between the doors. (7) Tires are to be “laced” into the tire trailers that are on the right upon entering the landfill. (tires cannot be on the rim.) If the tires are coming from a business, a completed Tire Certification Sheet must be provided to the landfill attendants, with the amount of car size, truck size and tractor size listed on the sheet. (8) Dead animals are to be taken to the animal hole below the demolition area. Signs are placed for directions. (In bad weather, landfill attendants will take them down.)
County residents (anyone living outside any city limits) pay a Solid Waste fee of $100.00 per household on their tax bill every year. Residents are then permitted to use the 10 convenience centers and the landfill free of charge. Municipal residents (anyone living inside city limits) do not pay the $100 Solid Waste fee. Therefore, they are not supposed to use the convenience centers because they have trash pickup by their town employees.
Municipal residents also pay when they bring items to the landfill. The fees are $37.00 per ton for anything except demolition and brush, and $25.00 per ton for demolition and brush. After crossing the scale upon entrance to the landfill, emptying your vehicle and crossing back across the scale, the landfill attendant will then tell the resident what is owed and give them a receipt.
ALL BUSINESSES MUST PAY. No businesses are supposed to use the convenience centers. This includes anyone who may be doing a job for a neighbor that is being paid for their labor.
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The 10 Convenience Center sites are listed below:
- Avondale Center is located on Ellenboro/Henrietta Road.
- Bills Creek Center is located on Bills Creek Road.
- Colfax Center is located on Highway 74 below Ellenboro.
- Danieltown Center is located just off Highway 221 South on Bethany Church Rd.
- Gilkey Center is located on Highway 221 North.
- Golden Valley Center is located on Bostic/Sunshine Highway.
- Green Hill Center is located off Highway 64/74 on Rainbow Rapids Road.
- Hollis Center is located on Hollis/Ellenboro Road.
- Pea Ridge Center is located on Pea Ridge Road closer to Highway 64.
- Shiloh Center is located on Ridgeway Drive off Poors Ford Road.
