Charlie Mountain Road Recycle

Charlie Mountain Road Recycle is a local recycling center in Clayton that most residents and small haulers use when they want to keep stuff out of the landfill. It’s the kind of place people stop at with bags of bottles, old cardboard, or a load from a home cleanout. The facility focuses on diverting common recyclables and has programs for items that don’t belong in household trash.

Expect a down-to-earth, slightly industrial lot with multiple drop-off areas for different materials - paper, plastics, metals and the like are typically sorted into separate containers. There’s usually a traffic flow that lets cars and small trucks pull up, unload, and move on without too much shuffling. Many Georgia recycling centers handle heavier loads by weight, so vehicles sometimes cross a scale and drivers return to the same stop on the way out. Busy times, especially weekends and spring cleanup, can mean a short line to get to the bins.