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Morgan County convenience centers and dump hours

East Central Georgia, on Eastern time

Convenience centers are what most people call the dump. This page covers 10 convenience centers, the Newborn Road Center, the Morgan County Transfer Station, and the Morgan County Recycling Center. Each one’s posted hours are below, with the rules that apply.

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

Before you go

  • Morgan County’s attended recycling center at the transfer station takes broken-down cardboard, glass, #1 and #2 plastics, and aluminum cans. Its other recycling center, on Newborn Road, keeps the same hours and takes cardboard; the county says it’s adding #1 and #2 plastics and glass there.Morgan County’s solid waste page says every compactor site has recycling boxes for cardboard, paper, and aluminum cans; its recycling page says those boxes are being removed, leaving recycling at the two recycling centers.

Convenience centers

  • County residents can leave bagged household trash free at the 12 compactor sites, one of them at the transfer station; everything else goes to the transfer station. Leave nothing on the ground, and don’t climb into the dumpsters: the compactors start and stop on their own.

All 10 convenience centers

Morgan County residents; bagged household trash only, free

Hours not posted. Call ahead.

Call the county office: Morgan County Sanitation Department, 706-342-5075

Multipurpose centers

  • The Newborn Road Center’s mini-transfer station takes garbage, bulky items, lawn trimmings, and cardboard, unloaded by hand into open-top dumpsters (no dumping trailers): $3 a car load, $10 a truck, $20 a trailer, by debit or credit card only, plus $1.50 a transaction.

Newborn Road Center

Compactor, mini-transfer station ($3 to $20 a load), and recycling

Hours
Monday7 a.m. to noon
Tuesday11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Wednesday7 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Thursday11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Friday7 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Saturday7 a.m. to noon
SundayClosed
  • Hours are in Eastern time.
  • Holiday closures aren’t posted. Call ahead near a holiday.
  • These are the recycling center’s hours; the county doesn’t post separate hours for the compactor and mini-transfer station.

2240 Newborn Rd, Rutledge, GA 30663

Get directionsCall the county office: Morgan County Sanitation Department, 706-342-5075

Transfer stations

  • Since July 1, 2026, the transfer station charges $59.26 a ton for residential garbage, rubbish, and bulky items ($74.14 commercial), $125 a ton for construction debris (trailers 10 feet or smaller, two trips a day, no commercial haulers or contractors), and $48.51 a ton for inert material at the inert landfill on the same property: yard debris, tree limbs, and other organic material. Metal, appliances, and paint are free. It also has a Goodwill drop-off.Morgan County’s solid waste page lists new fees effective July 1, 2026 at the top, but its transfer station section still shows the older ones ($56.44 a ton for residential garbage, $46.20 for inert material, $4.20 a car tire, $5.25 a car battery).
  • The transfer station doesn’t take flammable liquids or gases, gas tanks such as propane, animals, used oil, pesticides, or chemical waste.

Morgan County Transfer Station

Most items, by the ton; metal, appliances, and paint free

Hours
Monday to Friday7 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Saturday to SundayClosed
  • Hours are in Eastern time.
  • Holiday closures aren’t posted. Call ahead near a holiday.
  • Morgan County’s recycling page gives the transfer station’s hours as weekdays 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and Saturdays 8 to noon; its solid waste page says weekdays 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. and the first Saturday of each month, 7 to noon.
  • Last load at 3:45 p.m. Also open the first Saturday of each month, 7 a.m. to noon.

2480 Athens Hwy, Madison, GA 30650

Get directionsCall the center: 706-342-5075

Recycling centers

Morgan County Recycling Center

Attended; cardboard, glass, #1 and #2 plastics, cans

Hours
Monday7 a.m. to noon
Tuesday11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Wednesday7 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Thursday11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Friday7 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Saturday7 a.m. to noon
SundayClosed
  • Hours are in Eastern time.
  • Holiday closures aren’t posted. Call ahead near a holiday.

2480 Athens Hwy, Madison, GA 30650

Get directionsCall the county office: Morgan County Sanitation Department, 706-342-5075

What to do with…

Questions? Morgan County Sanitation Department answers at 706-342-5075.

Not yet verified. Call ahead to confirm. Source checked Oct. 21, 2026.

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