Georgia
Regulated Solid Waste Facilities
Georgia Regulated Solid Waste Facilities
The Solid Waste Management Program of the Georgia Environmental Protection Division (EPD) permits and oversees solid waste handling facilities, and publishes its record of them as one searchable workbook, Regulated Solid Waste Facilities. EPD says all permitted and regulated solid waste facilities can be found on that list, and that it replaces multiple outdated files the page used to carry.
In a Phase I ESA
EPD's solid waste facility list is the Georgia form of the state landfill and solid waste disposal site records that ASTM E1527-21 lists as a standard source. The general reading of a landfill listing is on the landfills and solid waste page. Three Georgia details shape the search.
- The program is wider than landfills. The program reviews applications and plans for solid waste handling facilities that include landfills, incinerators, petroleum bioremediation facilities and solidification facilities. It acknowledges permit-by-rule operations such as collection operations, transfer stations, yard trimmings landfills and on-site processing operations, and it reviews and approves biomedical waste processors. A separate unit permits stand-alone facilities that divert waste from landfills, including material recovery facilities and compost or anaerobic digestion facilities. The pages read do not say which of these facility types the workbook lists, and EPD describes its type column as the type of landfill. Read the facility type before treating an entry as a landfill.
- An old landfill can be a hazardous site. EPD tells local governments that a landfill, permitted or unpermitted, can be evaluated for the Hazardous Site Inventory when contamination is found, and that an old unpermitted landfill may already be listed there. Check the Hazardous Site Inventory for any former landfill. The reimbursement that goes with a listing is on the Hazardous Waste Trust Fund page.
- Monitoring has its own unit. The Environmental Monitoring Unit reviews groundwater, surface water and methane monitoring, corrective action plans and site suitability reports, and inspects methane and groundwater monitoring at publicly and privately owned solid waste handling facilities. For a property near a landfill, the methane and groundwater monitoring reports are the documents to ask for.
Landfills that take coal ash carry an added plan, described on the Coal Combustion Residuals page.
EPD lists the rule as 391-3-4, Solid Waste Management, and pairs it with O.C.G.A. 12-8-20, the Georgia Comprehensive Solid Waste Management Act of 1990.
What the record shows
EPD says the Regulated Solid Waste Facilities workbook can be filtered by county, by type of landfill (its Interest Type column) and by operating status, and searched by facility name, address or permit number. The copy posted is dated April 2026.
The same page carries two yearly series:
| File | Years posted |
|---|---|
| Landfill Remaining Capacity | 2013 through 2025 |
| Tonnage Totals by Quarter | 2003 through 2025 |
Read an entry's operating status as well as its type. The pages read do not describe a separate list of closed or pre-permit landfills.
Where to look a site up
- The workbook and the yearly files are on EPD's Regulated Solid Waste Facilities page.
- Solid waste permit applications and reports are accepted through GEOS, the Georgia EPD Online System. EPD has required permit applications for landfills, compost operations, material recovery facilities, permit-by-rule facilities and other solid waste handling facilities to go through it since September 1, 2019.
- The Solid Waste Technical Assistance Duty Officer is at 404.362.2692.
Getting the file
EPD's Tradeport office holds the solid waste files. File reviews are by appointment, requested by email at the address on EPD's Land Branch Open Records Requests page. If files must come from the records center, EPD asks for 7 to 10 days. Requests under the Georgia Open Records Act go through EPD's Open Records Request Portal.
Sources
Georgia Environmental Protection Division pages, read October 7, 2026:
- Regulated Solid Waste Facilities, last modified July 23, 2026.
- Solid Waste, last modified January 17, 2025.
- LPB Program and Units, last modified June 30, 2026.
- Local Govt LF Cleanup Reimbursement, last modified January 17, 2025.
- GEOS Training and Technical Assistance, last modified October 5, 2026.
- Existing Rules and Corresponding Laws, last modified September 26, 2024.
- Land Branch Open Records Requests, last modified July 29, 2026.
- File Review Procedures, last modified May 20, 2021.