Florence County, SC Trash & Recycling: Bin Placement Rules (2026)

Florence County does not run a municipal curbside collection truck in the unincorporated area; instead the county's Department of Environmental Services maintains metal 'public solid waste collection containers,' known locally as green boxes, at fixed sites around the county, and Chapter 13 of the Florence County Code governs how residents may use them. Section 13-1(1) states plainly that no material may be placed outside the container and that all garbage and refuse must go inside it, so bags left beside a full green box are a code violation, not just an eyesore.

Section 13-1(2) separately bars scavenging: no one may go through, remove materials from, or climb on, into, on top of, or inside a public collection container except a legally authorized county official. Section 13-1(4) bans placing burning or flammable materials in a green box, and Section 13-1(3) bars commercial haulers from using the residential containers at all. The six-yard and smaller green boxes are reserved for household domestic garbage; bulkier items such as furniture, appliances, construction debris and yard trash are excluded and must go to the landfill's collection station or a designated 40-yard roll-off box instead. '