Tennessee Landfills, Dumps & Recycling Centers

Where to dump, drop off and recycle across Tennessee — with the real hours and gate rules other directories leave blank. 688 facilities, drawn from TDEC's permitted-landfill register and its solid waste permit records, most of them the county convenience centers where Tennesseans actually take their trash.

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Where the facilities are

In most of Tennessee the place to take household trash is a county convenience center, not a landfill — 515 of the sites in our data are convenience centers. These are the counties with the most sites in our data; use the search above to find the closest to you, wherever in the state you are.

We're writing Tennessee up metro by metro — ten are live, with more on the way. Statewide, our guide to what it costs to dump in Tennessee compares every rate we've verified, and covers what state law keeps out of Tennessee landfills.