Send the job to the county that can take the load
You are not shopping for a slogan. You have a house, an estate, a rental, or a renovation pile, and you want it gone without the truck being turned around at the gate. Georgia does not have one junk rule. Fulton, DeKalb, Chatham, and Richmond name different facilities, different per-ton figures, and different ways a mixed load fails. Buckhead adds a street clock. Perimeter Center adds a dock and a certificate. If you treat those as the same errand with the city swapped, you will pay for a second trip.
Fulton County junk removal is Merk Road. Metals, appliances, and yard debris come apart before arrival, and yard waste mixed with furniture is the banned load. Commercial haulers over one ton need a manifest. The tip named here is $58.00 per ton. Skip the sort and the scale house can reject the truck, add up to $500, or turn it away.
DeKalb County junk removal is a curb rule. Commercial haulers cannot use a residential collection point for an evicted tenant’s clearout. They dump at Seminole Road with a tare ticket and a sanitation permit, at $63.00 per ton. An illegal deposit can mean an impounded trailer or a $1,000 fine. Fulton’s single-axle limit is tighter than DeKalb’s landfill scale lanes.
Chatham County junk removal keeps limbs and yard debris apart from furnishings, and storm-damaged material apart from bulky furniture, before Dean Forest. Residential bulky waste is $42.50 per ton. A mixed load can be refused or charged a double scale fee. The cited chapter does not price paint.
Richmond County junk removal is the Augusta permit: a transporter decal and a manifest for military move-out junk around Fort Eisenhower, dumped at $48.00 per ton. Skip the decal and the Marshal’s Office can cite you, and the landfill can revoke the privilege. Columbia County’s separate registration near Evans and Grovetown has no page here.
One table, taken from the notes on this site
These figures are the ones the county and district notes actually name. Nothing else is filled in to make the columns even. Where a note is silent, the cell says so.
| Place | Where the load is decided | Figure named in the note |
|---|---|---|
| Fulton County | Merk Road Transfer Station | $58.00 per ton. Manifest for commercial loads over 1 ton. Yard waste stays out of the furniture. |
| DeKalb County | Seminole Road Landfill | $63.00 per ton commercial. Tare ticket and sanitation permit. Eviction junk stays off the residential curb. |
| Chatham County | Dean Forest Landfill | $42.50 per ton for residential bulky waste. Limbs and yard debris stay apart from furnishings. |
| Richmond County | Augusta Solid Waste Landfill | $48.00 per ton. Transporter permit, decal, and manifest for commercial and military move-out junk. |
| Buckhead | Residential streets such as Tuxedo Road and West Paces Ferry | Trucks over 26,000 lb GVWR: two hours without a street use permit. Multi-truck estates: 24–48 hours ahead. No per-ton fee is named. |
| Perimeter Center | Tower dock and freight elevator | Clearance under 11 ft 6 in. $1M/$2M liability certificate 24 hours before the elevator. Dock window of two hours, reserved 24–48 hours ahead. |
Two districts where the truck, not the scale, is the argument
Buckhead estate junk removal is a street clock. On Tuxedo Road and West Paces Ferry, a truck over 26,000 pounds gets two hours without a street use permit. APD code enforcement can ticket and tow. Donation pieces take extra time, so a multi-truck estate is scheduled 24 to 48 hours ahead. No Buckhead per-ton fee is named.
Perimeter Center junk removal is a dock under 11 feet 6 inches, a freight elevator, and a $1 million / $2 million accord certificate 24 hours before that elevator is reserved. Miss it and the move-out slot is cancelled. A house in DeKalb or Fulton does not need the certificate. The haul band, $150 to $1,800 with no published middle, is on the Georgia junk removal service page.
What you line up before you ask for the callback
- Name the county or the district, because the facility and the clock change there.
- Split metals, appliances, and yard debris if the load is heading to a transfer station or a landfill that bans the mix.
- Keep an eviction or turnover pile off a residential curb when the hauler is commercial.
- Put storm limbs in their own pile on a coastal estate.
- Ask whether the street can hold a heavy truck, or whether the dock is under 11 feet 6 inches.
- Have the signer ready: homeowner, executor, landlord, property manager, or the hauler’s operator, depending on the note.
The callback is how an in-spec job moves. You answer two questions, you add an email, and you add a phone if you want the call on that number. One junk hauling company receives the request: an independent hauler, a franchise cleanout operator, or a waste fleet. The address book is not sold. This page does not publish a phone number for you to chase, and it does not print a lead price. If the job is in Florida, Alabama, South Carolina, or any other state, the form stops. If the load is hazardous industrial waste, a city bulk route, or biohazard cleanup, the form stops. A house does not stop it.
Questions people ask before they send the job
Do I need a plan before a junk removal truck comes to a Georgia house?
You need a sort, not a novel. Metals, appliances, and yard debris are separated before a Fulton load reaches Merk Road. An eviction pile in DeKalb does not sit on a residential curb. Storm limbs in Chatham stay out of the furniture. A military or commercial turnover in Richmond needs a transporter permit and a manifest. If you skip the split, the scale house is where the day fails.
What does junk removal cost for a Georgia house or estate?
The service note names $150 for a minimum load and $1,800 for a full multi-truck estate. That is the haul. County tipping sits outside it, in the table on this page. Loads between the two ends have no published middle fee.
Will you haul a house, or only a shop or a plant?
A house is in spec. So is an estate, a rental turnover, a landlord clearout, and renovation debris from a residential job. Homeowners, executors, residential landlords, renovation contractors, and property managers are who this desk is for. Hazardous industrial chemical waste, a municipal bulk-trash route, and biohazard cleanup are the refusals. A hotel, a plant, and a facility are not the audience for this form.
Which tipping fee applies to my load?
Use the table. Merk Road is $58.00 per ton, Seminole Road $63.00 commercial, Dean Forest $42.50 for residential bulky waste, and the Augusta landfill $48.00. Buckhead and Perimeter Center name a clock, not a per-ton price.
What if the house is in Sandy Springs, Alpharetta, Dunwoody, or Marietta?
Those cities do not get their own page. A lead from them still sends, because a city without its own note is not a refusal. Read the county note that matches the dump or the access problem: Fulton or DeKalb for the metro sort and the curb rule, Buckhead if the constraint is a narrow estate street, Perimeter Center if the constraint is a tower dock. Do not hunt for a city doorway that this desk did not publish.
Read the county that matches the pile, not a list of suburbs. The index of the notes that exist is the counties page. If the next town would read the same as this one, it does not get a URL.