4 county-level rules, plus city-specific rules for 1 city in Orange County, North Carolina.
Verified from official government sources
Orange County government runs no curbside household garbage in unincorporated areas, where residents self-haul to Waste and Recycling Centers or hire a private hauler. The county does provide curbside recycling countywide. Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and Hillsborough run their own trash routes.
Orange County collects curbside recycling in roll carts, weekly in the towns using 95-gallon carts and every other week in rural areas. Carts go to the curb by collection morning with lids closed, then come back the same day.
Orange County takes bulky items, appliances, mattresses, scrap tires, and electronics at its Waste and Recycling Centers and the solid waste facility on Eubanks Road. Several of these are banned from landfills by state law, and illegal dumping is unlawful.
Household curbside recycling in Orange County is available countywide but not mandatory for residents. The county does mandate recycling of certain regulated materials, and North Carolina bans a long list of items from landfills entirely.
N.C.G.S. §130A-309.10(f)
No person shall knowingly dispose of the following solid wastes in landfills:
1 cities in Orange County have their own trash & recycling rules. Each link goes to that city's dedicated page with code citations.
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