Cabarrus County, NC Landscaping Rules: Composting (2026)

This standard appears in Chapter 7, Section 7-3, Item 2-B, the Performance Based Standards rule for keeping female chickens on residential lots under five acres, not as a freestanding yard-waste ordinance for all residents. Subsection (e) addresses how waste generated from raising chickens must be handled: it must be disposed of properly, and if on-site composting is performed, the compost storage area has to be located a minimum of 25 feet from any property line and 50 feet from any stream, the identical setback the ordinance already applies to the chicken run itself.

If a keeper chooses not to compost, the alternative the ordinance spells out is that all chicken-related waste must be double bagged before being placed in on-site roll-out trash bins for collection. S. Environmental Protection Agency for composting technique guidance rather than setting county technique standards itself. Outside this chicken-waste context, the Development Ordinance supplied here does not contain a general residential composting or bin-standard provision covering yard trimmings or food scraps for households that are not keeping chickens; that gap likely sits in the county's general Code of Ordinances rather than this land-use code.