5 rules for unincorporated Charleston County, South Carolina.
Verified from official government sources
Charleston County Environmental Management serves unincorporated areas through established collection districts. Every property owner must use an approved collection service, and residential recycling is collected every other week.
Charleston County Code Sec. 10-24
Every owner of residential or commercial property shall use an approved licensed or governmental agency solid waste collection service or submit individual plans for their proposed solid waste disposal facility which must conform to the intent of these solid waste disposal rules and regulations and be acceptable to the county health department.
Charleston County residents should set out the recycling roll cart by 7am on collection day (or the night before), keep it at least 3 feet from cars, mailboxes, and trees, with the cart handles facing the house.
Charleston County Code Sec. 10-28(b)
It shall be unlawful for any person to rummage through, remove, salvage items from or otherwise scavenge from or tamper with any solid waste container, whether located curbside or at designated drop-off or collection points... The scattering of any of the contents of any solid waste container is also prohibited.
Oversized objects may not be dumped at Charleston County's resource recovery facility. Metal objects over 9 inches or non-metal items exceeding 2ft x 2ft x 5ft must be recycled or taken to a facility designated for oversized waste.
Charleston County Code Sec. 10-74
Oversized metal object means any single object, part of an object, or combination of objects affixed together, made of metal having a cross section which exceeds nine inches. Oversized nonmetal object means any single object... which exceed two feet times two feet times five feet... No oversized object shall be caused to be disposed of or dumped at the facility.
Charleston County offers single-stream recycling: combine paper, cardboard, plastic bottles and containers, aluminum, and glass in one roll cart with no sorting. Plastic bags, styrofoam, and yard waste are not accepted.
Dumping or discarding litter or solid waste on public or private property in Charleston County is unlawful. Fines start at $100 to $200 plus mandatory litter-gathering community service, and rise to $500 for larger amounts.
Charleston County Code Sec. 10-95(a)
No person shall dump, throw, drop, deposit, discard or otherwise dispose of litter or other solid waste upon any public or private property in the county or in the waters of the county whether from a vehicle or otherwise including, but not limited to, any highway, park, beach, campground, forest land, recreational area, trailer park, highway, road, street or alley.
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