Recycling & Schedules
The most comprehensive recycling program in North Georgia.
We Take Recycling Seriously
White Oak Sanitation offers the most comprehensive recycling program in North Georgia. We run completely separate recycling routes and take great care to ensure recycling items are handled distinctively from the garbage we remove.
95-gallon recycling cart with yellow lid. Pickup every other week.
We No Longer Accept Glass Materials
Please dispose of glass in your regular trash cart.
What Can You Recycle?
Accepted
- ✓Aluminum & Steel Food & Beverage Containers
- ✓Aluminum Baking Tins
- ✓Cardboard Boxes
- ✓Pizza Boxes
- ✓Soda, Beer & Other Drink Boxes
- ✓Shoe, Cereal, Tissue & Other Packaging Boxes
- ✓All Junk Mail
- ✓Kraft Paper (Grocery & Lunch Bags)
- ✓Mixed Paper (Calendars, School Papers & Other Forms)
- ✓All Other Paper (Computer Paper, Phone Books, Books)
- ✓Catalogs
- ✓Newspapers & Inserts
- ✓#1 Plastic Soda and Water Bottles
- ✓#2 Plastic Milk Jugs, Juice Bottles & Other Rigid Containers
- ✓#3 Through #7 Plastic Bottles & Containers
- ✓Magazines
Not Accepted
- ✗Hazardous Waste/Containers
- ✗Aerosol Cans Not Emptied
- ✗Glass Bottles & Panes
- ✗Bio Medical Waste & Containers
- ✗Construction/Demo Waste Material
- ✗Compressed Gas Cylinders
- ✗Paint Buckets/Containers
- ✗Tires
- ✗Ammunition or Firearms
- ✗Chemicals or Containers
- ✗Batteries
- ✗Electronics (never allowed)
- ✗Garden Hoses
- ✗Cables
- ✗Food Waste
- ✗Metal Furniture
- ✗Yard Waste
- ✗Electronic Cases
- ✗Wood
- ✗Construction Debris
- ✗Liquids
- ✗Plastic Grocery Bags
- ✗Styrofoam
- ✗Auto Parts
Cart Placement Guidelines
Proper cart placement helps our automated trucks pick up your cart safely and on time.
Place opposite side of the driveway from your mailbox, within 5 feet of the curb
Maintain at least 18 inches between carts
Maintain at least 5 feet from any structure, object, or obstruction
Front of the cart faces the curb, handle faces your house. Please have your cart out by 6:00 AM the morning of your service day.
Holiday Pickup Schedule
If your service day falls on or after one of the holidays listed below, your pickup will be delayed one day. If the holiday falls on a Saturday or Sunday it will not affect your service day.
New Year's Day
Memorial Day
Independence Day
Labor Day
Thanksgiving Day
Christmas Day
Frequently Asked Questions
Don't see your question? Call (706) 367-0628 · Mon–Fri, 8am–4pm.