Specialties
Cherokee County Landfill is located: 1 mile NE of RT 141 at MM 30.5 on US Hwy 19/74/129 in Marble, NC. No Hazardous Wastes, liquids, ash, or out of county wastes are accepted.
Landfill hours are from 7:30 AM through 3:45 PM weekdays and 7:30 AM through Noon on Saturdays and Holidays. Tipping fees are $80 per ton or $4 per 100 lbs. Minimum tipping fees for households and businesses are charged. All wastes and recyclables generated by non-residential sources or businesses must be brought to the landfill (not to Convenience Centers) for disposal.
Please call 828-837-2621 or visit the Solid Waste section of the Cherokee County NC website for more information or to view the entire Solid Waste Ordinance online.
Bring any waste which is not generated in the household, on a daily basis, to the landfill for disposal. Put simply, if the waste is NOT something that you put into your kitchen or bathroom wastebasket on a daily basis then, it needs to go to the Landfill Scale-house, and not be deposited in a green box at a convenience center.
Please segregate solid wastes and recyclables in your load for easy unloading. By NC State Law: tires, yard waste, glass, mixed metals, appliances, palates, lead-acid batteries, cardboard, plastic bottles, and Aluminum beverage containers must be deposited in separate locations at the landfill.
Recycling of clean Cardboard, empty Plastic containers, clean Glass jars and bottles, and Aluminum beverage containers is strongly encouraged.
History
Established in 1998.
The Cherokee County Landfill was moved to the current location at 10160 US HWY 19 in Marble NC and opened to the public in 1998. It is a lined landfill and accepts both Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) and Construction & Demolition (C&D) waste from locations addressed in Cherokee County only. Any and all water that has come in contact with any MSW or C&D is termed Leachate. All Leachate is contained and pumped to a facility which has been approved by the NC Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to properly treat Leachate. The perimeter of the landfill property is surrounded by groundwater monitoring wells which are sampled and tested semi-annually by a licensed environmental consulting firm to verify the groundwater does not exceed the groundwater protection standards established by the DEQ. We are committed to the protection of groundwater resources.