Morgan Falls Recycling Center

I love this place! The people that work here (not the committee service people) are so sweet and kind and really care about taking care of the earth! I will always take my recycling here!

Happy New Year It’s time to clean out the clutter & dispose of the things we just don’t use or need. This years «New Years Resolution» is to start recycling & after looking at all the everyday stuff we throw out I am/​was feeling guilty that this could be put in a proper place and reused instead of in a landfill destroying the earth we live on.
Think about it for a minute all of the plastic water bottles, batteries, coke cans, cat/​dog food cans, detergent, deodorant & even mouth wash all of these containers can be recycled. Morgan Falls Recycling Center accepts glass of every color, newspaper, cardboard, magazines, tin/​aluminum cans & plastic bottles or containers that are a # 1 or # 2 not sure turn it over inside of the rounded off triangle is a number.
Styrofoam will not be accepted.
If you are a bit a of a pack rat and have bills or other personal documents that you are afraid someone will get their hands on & want to depose of them safely there is a shredder available for a small fee. A (office) box will will only set you back about $ 6.00.
Shoes — We all have them, some we don’t wear anymore or just can’t seem to part with now is the time to let them go. Think of what you can do with the extra closet space & know that someone who can really use them will appreciate your generosity. All you have to do is drop them off in «good condition» please.
The Kidney foundation has a truck here and is accepting cloths, household & even electrical items that are in working condition.
I’m going to start living a clutter free life thanks to MFRC you might want to check out the one in your area, if we all do a little it will make a difference.

We have a saying in the wireless telephone business.
«Do it right the first time or never get another chance to do it again.»
I wish the citizens of this earth would think like cell phone plan sales personnel when they think about the environment. We are seriously wrecking this planet with soda bottles, broken toys, leaky batteries, medical waste and a bazillion plastic bags and if we mess it up enough we might never get another chance to «do it again.»
I come to the Atlanta, GA area as much as 7 times a year. I always stay in a hotel (usually with terrible cable channel choices LOL) and I eat piles of takeout food since it is difficult to cook for oneself when you are on the road. I t only takes me 45 minutes to an hour out of each day but I make sure to collect my recyclables, separate them and take them here rather than just filling black plastic bags with my accumulated trash and leaving it in my hotel room.
Sure, it’s not the easy way but if everyone did their part…
Thank you to Morgan Fall RC for making the process easy, organized and pain free.

I came to the Morgan Falls Recycling Center on one of the bulk trash days that is offered and was impressed with how organized everything was laid out.
Doing my own home projects is rewarding, however I find that I’m left with odds and ends that I rather dispose of properly. I’m glad to say I found the place to take all that bulky trash for proper recycling. The day I went, the recycling effort was mainly focused on wood and metal recycling, however they also offer appliance and electronic recycling on specific days. The only trick is finding a way to get your «item» to the recycling center if it is large and/​or heavy… but hey, it’s worth it if those things can be disposed of the right way. Or at least that is my take.
They also recycle all the usual stuff here as well such as paper and plastic in case you find yourself with a big collection of this type of content, from lets say doing some spring cleaning of a basement or attic.
My only knock on the place is that the parking lot was a little small and on the day I went there was a line of cars in the road. This wouldn’t have been so bad if cars weren’t trying to drive around the traffic on a two lane road. Not a huge deal as the line of cars moved quickly and there isn’t much traffic on the road to begin with but it’s not exactly the safest traffic management I’ve seen either.
Now that I know this place is here and how easy it is to drop stuff off I’ll be back to help save the planet one car load of bulky trash at a time.

This place is great — you can recycle everything. However, the «volunteers» are mostly people doing community service and quite a few seem to be court-​ordered. Trust me, you can tell which of those HAVE to be there as they are the less-​friendly ones.
My recommendation, ask for help from the older helpers as they are much nicer and friendlier and don’t complain. They are quick to help out my (almost 70-​yo) mom empty her car of cardboard and paper shreds and dump them for her. The kids are too busy with the earbuds shoved in their ear canals and jamming to Usher or Né-​Yo to be polite and they tell her (with her cane) to dump everything on the ground and they will «handle it.»
As long as you get the right helper and it isn’t too busy, you are A-​OK. Get a kid who is annoyed he has 100 hours of community service he has to complete and you might as well show up in your grubbies and do it all yourself. At least we have a great place to take everything to recycle (and there is a Goodwill drop off as well).

This is a great place to shed your unwanted recyclables! It has a very convenient drive-​through setup and there is staff that can help unload large items and direct you to where specific items belong. In addition, there are collection areas for Goodwill, books and other donations (not recycling), so it is a one-​stop de-​cluttering wonderland! By the way, there is no cost to recycle.

I LOVE THIS.
My apartment complex has like a curbside garbage can for each recyclable material, and I don’t think the stuff is ever picked up. I’d keep bunches of paper bags in my trunk hoping one day I might be leaving and the thing wouldn’t be overflowing.
Nope.
So after accumulating a giant bag of paper while getting ready to move, along with all the bags of bags and some glass and plastic (I am talking like 7 paper bags of bags and cardboard here, I was a recyclables hoarder) I loaded up the back of my car and headed for Sandy Springs.
For paper, the bins are divided into several options: cardboard/​paper bags, magazines/​phonebooks and mixed paper that excludes cardboard. I had everything set for the most part, and almost immediately a volunteer came to help me out. I think overall three different guys helped me. It was especially nice for my giant bag of magazines and other paper, as I had to put it in a box to even be able to carry it to my car, and this guy had no problems just lifting it up and taking it to the proper bin.
I’m hoping my new place will have a better pickup system in place. If not, looks like it’s going to be less than 6 miles to get here so there’s no «it’s so far» excuse, and next time around I’ll be better organized about it! I didn’t even know I could have taken some of my things I want to donate there too… although I really didn’t have room.

I want to save the planet as much as the next person, possibly more since I did specifically ask for a place that recycles batteries. And when the combination of the Great Snowcation of 2011 in Hothlanta and the MLK Jr Holiday caused a huge pile of recyclables in our kitchen, I decided it was the perfect opportunity to check this place out.
The parking lot reminds me of the recycling area at YDFM — large containers for all kinds of paper (if that doesn’t make you want to cancel your magazine subscriptions and write letters about the waste that is the phone book, then I don’t know what will). The portion that’s in the actual facility has the glass and plastics (#1 and #2 only). Also in the building, there was an area for batteries, but it was labeled «Ni-​Cad» (rechargeable batteries) — not your regular alkali. I saw alkali batteries in the bin, so I just left mine there, since it does say on the website that they accept all kinds of batteries. I also saw some alkali batteries in the trash bin a few feet away, so I’m hoping they don’t just all end up there…
So why less than 5 stars? Mainly because I’m lazy. I couldn’t tell who the volunteers were, so I didn’t ask about the batteries. Also, at the Roswell Recycling Center, there’s an army of volunteers who comes to your car to help you unload and sort, and there’s none of that here. Future trips will required extra preparation, to sort the paper, glass, and plastic so that I don’t have to go through it all when I get here.
They do accept electronics items inside, which I’ll be taking advantage of in the future.
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Recycling is like going to the gym– you know you should do it, you know you’ll be glad when you have already done it, and you want it to take the least amount of time possible.
Morgan Falls Recycling Center answers all these quandries! You can recycle everything from cardboard and cans (but if you take those to your local fire station they’ll benefit the Boot Fund for burn victims) to magazines and electronics. And there’s a Goodwill truck that is manned during business hours so it’s truly a one-​stop-​shop for all your recycling and cleaning-​out-​your-​garage-​needs.

I like to be a good citizen of the planet, but I also value convenience. When I can accomplish my good citizenship goal AND meet my convenience requirement, I am one happy gal. And in my new neighborhood of Sandy Springs, the Morgan Falls Recycling Center makes me a happy gal.
The Recycling Center takes LOTS of items — items that most local recycling pick-​up services around Greater Atlanta won’t take. Yeah, so you have to drive there. I live close by, so that’s no big deal. What IS awesome is that I can drop all my various recyclables off in one spot, and, if I go during staffed hours (M-​Sat, 8 – 4, Sun 9 – 4), the friendly staff folks actually drag everything out of my car and to the appropriate bins for me. And that is super awesome, and I can drive off feeling good about myself and my environmental-​friendliness.
Check the website for info on what can and can’t be recycled — a few items, like TVs and computers, do have a small fee. Oh, and once you turn off Roswell onto Morgan Falls Road, keep driving down a ways until you see the Recycling Center sign on your left.
Thanks to the Morgan Falls Recycling Center, It’s Easy Being Green!