Escambia County convenience centers and dump hours

West Florida, on Central time

Convenience centers are what most people call the dump. This page covers the Oak Grove Citizens’ Convenience Center, the Perdido Landfill, the Palafox Transfer Station, and the Sheriff’s Office Substation recycling drop-off. Each one’s hours are posted below, with the rules that apply.

What to do with tires, mattresses, paint, and more

Before you go

The county’s recycling drop-offs (Oak Grove, Palafox, the Perdido Landfill, and the Sheriff’s Office substation on Perdido Key) take glass, aluminum, plastics 1 and 2, cardboard, and newspaper.
Curbside garbage service comes from Emerald Coast Utilities Authority in unincorporated Escambia County (850-476-0480), the City of Pensacola inside the city (850-435-1890), and the Town of Century in Century (850-256-3208).

Convenience centers

The Oak Grove center measures each load and charges $9.01 a cubic yard, $11.64 at least, up to 5 cubic yards of trash a customer a day. It doesn’t take tires.

Oak Grove Citizens’ Convenience Center

Trash by the cubic yard, up to 5 a day; no tires

Hours
Monday to Thursday	Closed
Friday to Saturday	8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Sunday	Closed

Hours are in Central time.
Holiday closures aren’t posted. Call ahead near a holiday.

745 County Road 99, McDavid

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Landfills

The Perdido Landfill charges $45.06 a ton for solid waste and $27.62 a ton for yard trash, $11.64 at least, plus $7.02 for a resident’s uncovered load. Clean fill dirt, clean concrete, sorted recyclables, and residents’ household hazardous waste are free.
Free re-blended latex paint is handed out at the Perdido Landfill on the first and third Thursdays of each month, 8 to 11 a.m., while it lasts: up to two 5-gallon buckets a vehicle, in exchange for a clean new bucket and lid. Drive through the scale house first.Escambia County’s Programs page hands out re-blended paint from 8 to 11 a.m.; its hazardous waste page says 8 a.m. to noon.

Perdido Landfill

Residents and businesses; fee by the ton

Hours
Monday to Friday	7 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Saturday	7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Sunday	Closed

Hours are in Central time.
Holiday closures aren’t posted. Call ahead near a holiday.
Escambia County’s Waste Services page opens the Perdido Landfill at 7:30 a.m. on Saturday; the landfill’s own page and the county’s recycling page say 7 a.m.
Large loads that have to be unloaded by hand must arrive by 4:30 p.m. on weekdays and 3 p.m. on Saturday.
Household hazardous waste drop-off: Monday to Saturday, 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

13009 Beulah Road, Cantonment

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