Karns Convenience Center
Knox County’s northwest drop-off on Karns Crossing Lane, with electronics recycling and a donation center.
Karns Convenience Center hours are Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Saturday 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.; it is closed Wednesday, Sunday and county holidays. It is at 6930 Karns Crossing Lane, near Rocky Tops and half a mile east of Ingles. Karns is one of three county centers with attended electronics and clothing drop-offs, and one of five with a carpet recycling container.
Serves: Knoxville trash pickup and recycling rules.
What this center takes and what it does not
- Attended drop-offs: electronics, taken by America’s Thrift Store, and a donation center for clothing and durable goods in good condition, such as furniture, toys, kitchen appliances and tools. The county lists both only at Karns, Halls and John Sevier.
- Carpet: a separate recycling container; Carter and Dutchtown take carpet only as bulky waste.
- Trash and bulky waste: bagged household trash, bulky items and do-it-yourself demolition materials.
- Recycling: plastics 1 and 2, mixed paper, cardboard, cans and scrap metal.
- Car and household items: tires, car and motorcycle batteries, used oil and other auto fluids, cooking oil, fluorescent bulbs and one propane tank a year.
Karns does not take glass bottles and jars, green waste, liquid paint, appliances containing refrigerant, shingles, brick, block, concrete or commercial waste.
About this site
The county’s directions place the center near Rocky Tops, a half mile east of Ingles. Its annual progress report to the state lists Karns at ZIP code 37931 under state permit 47-0563, and the brochure’s map of Karns marks the donation drop-off area.
Rules at every Knox County convenience center
Use is free for Knox County residents, City of Knoxville residents among them, bringing their own household waste; waste from businesses, rental properties and paid contractors is refused. For limits, holiday closures and the full rules, see Knox County Solid Waste.
- Type
- Convenience center
- State
- Tennessee
- City
- Knoxville
- Address
- 6930 Karns Crossing Lane, Knox County, Tennessee
- Hours
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturday 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.; closed Wednesday, Sunday and county holidays; gates close at closing time
- Who can use it
- Knox County residents bringing their own residential waste and recycling. No business or nonprofit waste, no waste from rental properties, no contractors with waste from paid jobs. One load of non-recyclable trash per household per day, up to a standard 5-by-8 pickup bed; heaping loads and very large trailers are turned away.
- Fees
- Free
- Takes
- Bagged household trash; bulky items and do-it-yourself demolition materials; carpet; plastics 1 and 2; mixed paper; cardboard; aluminum and steel cans; scrap metal; car and motorcycle batteries; used oil and filters and other auto fluids (20 gallons a month); antifreeze; cooking oil (10 gallons a month); fluorescent tubes and CFLs (20 a year); tires (8 a year); propane tanks (1 a year); textiles; electronics
- Does not take
- Glass bottles and jars; commercial waste; appliances containing refrigerant; asphalt and roofing shingles; block, brick and concrete; green waste; liquid latex paint and oil-based paint; plastic bags, Styrofoam and bagged recyclables in the recycling bins
- Run by
- Knox County Solid Waste
- Phone
- 865-215-5865
- Official website
- knoxcounty.org
- Primary source
- knoxcounty.org
- Last verified
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