You are hiring a haul for a Fulton house, condo, estate, or rental, and the useful question is whether the load will survive the transfer station. Multi-family and residential estate cleanouts have to separate metals, appliances, and yard debris before they arrive. Open dumping is restricted. A commercial hauler over one ton is expected to carry a manifest log. If your pile is still “everything from the garage in one truck,” you do not have a Fulton load yet.
- Split metals, appliances, and yard debris before the truck leaves the property.
- Keep bulk yard waste out of the furniture. That mix is the ban, not a style preference.
- If the commercial load is over one ton, the manifest is part of the job, not a courtesy.
The rule at Merk Road
Fulton County Code § 34-31, as this desk uses it, restricts open dumping and requires transfer-station manifest logs for commercial haulers delivering loads over one ton at Merk Road. Solid-waste enforcement also wants non-hazardous sorting before disposal there, and it bans bulk yard waste mixed with furniture. The paraphrase lives on the county ordinance page for Chapter 34, not on a brochure. Read it yourself: Fulton County Code of Ordinances, Chapter 34, solid waste. This note does not paste a longer quotation than the section heading and the duties named above, because a fabricated sentence from the code would be worse than a short one.
For you, the practical version is simple. The homeowner or the executor gets the pile into categories the driver can defend at the scale. Metals in one group. Appliances, including white goods, in another if they have to be scrapped rather than buried in bags. Yard debris on its own. Furniture and household goods without the branches and the grass mixed through them. Electronics that need scrap segregation are the question on the callback card, because a mixed electronics load changes how the hauler packs the truck even when the tipping figure stays $58.00 per ton.
What happens if you skip the sort
The failure shows up at the scale house, not in a letter three weeks later. The named consequences are immediate rejection, a surcharge fine up to $500, or a turn-away penalty. You then own the truck time twice: once to the gate, and once back to a place that will finish the sort you skipped in the driveway. A rejected load is also how a “cheap” crew becomes the expensive one. The $58.00 per ton only matters if the facility takes the weight. A turned-away truck has burned the haul without buying you disposal.
Who signs, what it costs, and how DeKalb differs
| Item | What this note says |
|---|---|
| Who signs | Homeowner, or the licensed hauling contractor’s operator. |
| Fee | $58.00 per ton tipping fee at Merk Road Transfer Station. |
| If you skip it | Rejection at the scale house, a surcharge up to $500, or a turn-away penalty. |
| How DeKalb differs | DeKalb uses a different municipal tipping rate and allows co-mingled yard waste at Seminole Road Landfill under specific conditions this note does not list. |
DeKalb is the neighbor that makes this URL exist. Fulton moves load through a transfer station and holds a lower single-axle trailer limit than DeKalb’s direct landfill scale lanes. DeKalb’s commercial tipping figure on its own note is $63.00 per ton, and its curb rule is about eviction piles, not about Merk Road’s furniture-and-yard mix. If your driver talks about Seminole Road while the house is in Fulton, you are on the wrong note. Co-mingled yard waste that DeKalb may allow under conditions it specifies is not a permission slip for a Fulton truck. Those conditions are not copied here, because this page will not pretend to know them.
Checklist for a Fulton haul
- Walk the pile and pull metals, appliances, and yard debris into separate groups.
- Confirm no bulk yard waste is packed with the furniture.
- If a commercial hauler is carrying more than one ton, have the Merk Road manifest ready.
- Name the signer: the homeowner or the licensed operator.
- Tell the hauler whether electronics or white goods need scrap segregation. That is the question on the card.
- Budget $58.00 per ton for the tip, and keep the haul band separate from that ton.
The fee this document actually names
$58.00 per ton at Merk Road Transfer Station is the only tipping figure this Fulton note publishes. There is no timeline in hours for a residential estate beyond the logic of the scale: if the sort is done, the truck can present the load; if the commercial weight is over one ton, the manifest has to be with it. Same-day is not promised. Multi-story access is a field on the form, not a fee. If a hauler quotes a Fulton tip that is not $58.00 per ton, ask which facility they mean. This page will not average Merk Road with a number from the next county to make a smoother story.
Questions people ask before they send the job
What is the tipping fee for bulk junk in Fulton County?
The figure named on this note is $58.00 per ton at Merk Road Transfer Station. It is a tipping fee, not the haul band of $150 to $1,800 that the service page uses for the crew and the truck. A commercial load over one ton also needs a transfer-station manifest log. This page does not add a fuel surcharge, a mattress fee, or a minimum ticket on top of the $58.00, because the cited ordinance note does not publish those extras.
Can junk haulers take mattresses in Fulton County?
The rule this page uses does not name mattresses. It names a banned mix: bulk yard waste with furniture. It also requires metals, appliances, and yard debris to be separated before the truck reaches a county transfer facility. A mattress is household furniture in that sense, and it can ride with other household goods when the yard debris is not mixed into the same load. If you need a mattress-specific ban or a recycling window, the cited code section does not give it, and this desk will not invent one.
How do estate cleanout dispatches handle multi-story condos in Fulton?
The sort does not relax because the unit is upstairs. Metals, appliances, and yard debris still come apart before Merk Road, and a commercial load over one ton still needs the manifest. Stairs and a shared elevator are access facts you can add on the form. They are not a second tipping fee and they are not a different ordinance. The signer is still the homeowner or the licensed hauling contractor’s operator. Give the crew the floor and the elevator rules you already have; do not expect this note to publish a condo permit number.
Where does Fulton County haul residential scrap metal?
The note requires metals to be separated from the rest of the cleanout before arrival at the county transfer facility. Merk Road is the transfer station named for the tipping figure and for commercial loads over one ton. The cited section does not name a separate scrap yard, a redemption rate, or a resident drop-off window for metal. Tell the hauler the metal is segregated. The manifest, when the load is over one ton and commercial, is the paper that shows the split happened.