Mitchell County Landfill

Mitchell County Landfill on Locast Road is the county dump for Pelham - the place trash ends up being buried rather than sorted. Neighbors, contractors, and haulers all use it when they have loads too big for curbside pickup or for construction debris that Georgia regulates closely.

Drive up the access road and you'll pass a scale booth where trucks are weighed; tipping fees are charged by weight so expect to stop twice if dumping a larger load. The entrance has a small booth and a lane to pull up for check-in, then a short drive into the working area where piles and compacted cells are visible. The site looks like a typical rural landfill: heavy equipment, berms of cover soil, and marked working faces rather than neat rows of bins. Commercial loads are commonly handled at landfills like this and are usually billed under a different fee structure than residential drops.