Waste facility proposed for land near Gwinnett recycling center

A Norcross development company will seek approval to build a waste transfer station next to Gwinnett County’s planned recycling complex on Cedars Road near Lawrenceville.

A subsidiary of the Inland Group wants to build the center on 3.8 acres of land that’s currently occupied in part by Southern Flooring & Interiors, a flooring showroom and warehouse, said Inland owner Eric Johansen.

Locating a transfer station used to consolidate garbage from households onto landfill-bound tractor-trailers makes sense because of the location of the recycling center next door, he said.

Placing the two uses adjacent to each other would be more convenient for haulers and less objectionable to county residents than recent transfer station requests because of the preponderance of industrial uses and county-owned land near the site.

The land is near the runway for Gwinnett County’s airport.

Johansen also said his company hopes to achieve environmentally friendly designations for some aspects of the project’s construction.

“We want to make this the example for future transfer statios, not the minimum that everyone else is already doing,” he said.

The application must first go to regional planners for their consideration. The earliest the county Planning Commission could consider the request would be April.

The Gwinnett County Commission recently approved a highly-controversial transfer station near Norcross. Another application for a site near Dacula is pending.