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Fayette County

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Charles Traylor, Fayette County Solid Waste Director

Phone: (901) 465-5230

Address: PO Box 62, 11675 Hwy 76 South, Somerville, TN 38068

Email: chtraylor@bellsouth.net, Marykarnold@bellsouth.net

Staff: Mary Arnold, Carl Brown, Matthew Cook, Jason Russom, Wayne Sparkman, William Hoskin

Fayette County Solid Waste Services

Fayette County operates a transfer station, class III-IV landfill, and a recycling center at 11675 Hwy. 76 S., Somerville, TN These facilities are open to all residents of Fayette County.

The following items are accepted for recycling at this location during regular business hours: 7:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday – Friday; Saturday 8:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.

Plastic - #1 and #2
Cardboard
Newspapers, magazines, paperback and hardcover books, phone books, catalogs
Aluminum cans
Batteries
Waste oil
“White goods”: i.e. refrigerators, freezers, washers, dryers, water heaters
Clothes – clean and in good condition
Used tires
Scrap metal
Paint (if dry or semi-solid)
Pallets
Fluorescent bulbs
Electronics

Items accepted as trash include household garbage, furniture, construction debris, yard waste, carpet and padding, hot tubs.

Additional Recycling In Fayette County

Located at all the schools in the county are steel bins for cardboard; some schools have been supplied with plastic totes for the collection of papers in the classrooms. We also work with “special needs” students to collect plastic bottles and aluminum drink cans.

There are newspaper collection containers located at Somerville Courthouse and Somerville Elementary for public use.

Many businesses in the county have been provided with steel containers for the use of cardboard. Offices have totes ( same as used by the schools) for the collection of office paper and plastic and aluminum drink cans.

Fayette County also has a commercial-sized shredder and offers free paper shredding to businesses and citizens. Anyone needing to watch documents being shredded is welcome to do so.

Semi-trailers are “spotted” at several factories in the county for the loading of recycling material (cardboard, pallets, etc.) and swapped out regularly on a “call-in” basis.