The Worth County Landfill closed in 1997. The county currently operates a transfer station and inert landfill at the site.
A waste transfer station is an industrial facility where municipal solid waste, or MSW, is temporarily held and sorted before heading to a landfill. Garbage trucks that run city and county routes drop off their trash at the transfer station before it’s loaded onto larger vehicles and shipped to a landfill.
Inert material consists of earth and earth-like products, concrete, cured asphalt, rock, bricks, yard trimmings,stumps, limbs and leaves. These products are neither chemically nor biologically reactive and will not decompose or only very slowly.
Worth County is regulated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Georgia Environmental Protection department.