Rutherford County convenience centers and dump hours
Convenience centers are what most people call the dump. This page covers 10 convenience centers and the Rutherford County Landfill. Each one’s hours are posted below, with the rules that apply.
Convenience centers
- Rutherford County’s 10 convenience centers are for households outside city limits, which pay a $190 solid waste fee on their tax bill each year; town residents have trash pickup and aren’t to use them. No businesses, including anyone paid to haul a neighbor’s trash. The centers take household garbage, furniture, metal and appliances, motor oil and filters, cooking oil (except Hollis), car batteries, and mixed recycling (paper, glass, plastics #1-7 except foam, cans, and flattened cardboard, unbagged), but no electronics.
- Bills Creek, Gilkey, Golden Valley, Green Hill, Hollis, Pea Ridge, and Shiloh have Swap Shop sheds for things still in good shape. Not in the sheds: food or drinks, clothes or shoes, upholstered furniture, mattresses, pillows, stuffed animals, paint or liquids, TVs or computers, or light bulbs.
Nine convenience centers with these hours
Households outside city limits that pay the county solid waste fee. No businesses
| Monday to Friday | 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. |
|---|---|
| Saturday | 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. |
| Sunday | Closed |
- Hours are in Eastern time.
- Avondale2310 Ellenboro-Henrietta Rd., Ellenboro, NC 28040Directions to Avondale CenterCall Avondale Center: 828-657-6952
- Bills Creek2130 Bills Creek Rd., Lake Lure, NC 28746Directions to Bills Creek CenterCall Bills Creek Center: 828-625-8516
- Colfax1676 US 74 Business, Ellenboro, NC 28040Directions to Colfax CenterCall Colfax Center: 828-248-1268
- Danieltown1381 Bethany Church Rd., Forest City, NC 28043Directions to Danieltown CenterCall Danieltown Center: 828-245-6524
- Gilkey2489 HWY 221 N, Rutherfordton, NC 28139Directions to Gilkey CenterCall Gilkey Center: 828-286-8829
- Golden Valley6075 Bostic-Sunshine Hwy., Bostic, NC 28018Directions to Golden Valley CenterCall Golden Valley Center: 828-245-1328
- Green Hill204 Rainbow Rapids Rd., Rutherfordton, NC 28139Directions to Green Hill CenterCall Green Hill Center: 828-286-8458
- Pea Ridge3892 Pea Ridge Rd., Bostic, NC 28018Directions to Pea Ridge CenterCall Pea Ridge Center: 828-287-1358
- Shiloh152 Richland Dr., Forest City, NC 28043Directions to Shiloh CenterCall Shiloh Center: 828-245-6108
Hollis Center
Households outside city limits that pay the county solid waste fee. No businesses
| Monday | 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | Closed |
| Wednesday | 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. |
| Thursday | Closed |
| Friday | 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. |
| Saturday | 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. |
| Sunday | Closed |
- Hours are in Eastern time.
4480 Hollis Rd., Ellenboro, NC 28040
Landfills
- Everyone pays at the landfill, churches and schools included: $80 a ton for household trash and furniture, $70 a ton for construction and demolition debris, and $45 a ton for brush and limbs or metal; clean recyclables are free. Cross the scales on the way in and again on the way out. Cash, checks, or cards (a $2 fee for cards).Rutherford County’s Solid Waste page lists household trash at $80 a ton, but its note on stripped electronics gives the household rate as $76 a ton.
- The landfill doesn’t take stumps, liquids other than cooking and motor oil, hazardous waste, insecticides, chemicals, or sludge. It does take asbestos and dead animals.
Rutherford County Landfill
Everyone pays by weight, churches and schools included
| Monday to Friday | 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. |
|---|---|
| Saturday | 7:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. |
| Sunday | Closed |
- Hours are in Eastern time.
656 Laurel Hill Dr., Rutherfordton, NC 28139
What to do with…
Questions? Rutherford County Solid Waste answers at 828-287-6125.
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