Pageland, SC Trash & Recycling: Bin Placement Rules (2026)
Key Facts
- Curb time limit
- 24 hours before/after collection
- First offense
- Written warning
- Second offense fine
- $25.00
- Third+ offense fine
- $50.00
- Storage requirement
- Beside or behind the home otherwise
Summary
Pageland residents must bag garbage before it goes in the rollout cart and set the cart near the sidewalk or street for pickup, per Town Code section 26-4. Carts can sit at the curb no more than 24 hours before or after the scheduled collection time and must otherwise be stored beside or behind the home.
(a)Only garbage placed in a plastic bag which is securely tied and then placed inside the rollout cart shall be collected. Each occupant/user shall place his garbage for collection at the proper time in the proper manner near the sidewalk or highway in front of residence.(b)Roll out carts shall be left at the curbside for no more than 24 hours prior to the scheduled collection time or 24 hours after the scheduled collection time. Other than the day of collection, carts shall be stored beside or behind the customer's home. Violation of this section shall be punishable by a written warning for the first offense, $25.00 fine for the second offense, $50.00 for a third offense and any other subsequent offenses in the same calendar year.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 1).
Full Breakdown
Section 26-4 of the Pageland Town Code is the operative rule for where and when a garbage cart belongs. Subsection (a) requires that only garbage bagged in plastic and securely tied, then placed inside the rollout cart, gets collected, and each occupant has to put that cart out at the proper time near the sidewalk or highway in front of the residence. Subsection (b) then bookends the pickup window: the cart cannot sit at the curb more than 24 hours before the scheduled collection time or more than 24 hours after it, and on every other day it has to be stored beside or behind the customer's home, not left at the curb.
00 for any further offense that year. Two related sections round out the placement duties: section 26-5 makes the occupant responsible for keeping the individual container reasonably clean, and section 26-6 requires the pickup point itself to stay free of litter, with a specific instruction that containers not be filled past overflow capacity so trash does not spill out when it is emptied. Section 26-14 separately makes it unlawful for anyone, including a collector, to damage, destroy or move a garbage container from its proper location.
Violations & Fines
A first cart-placement violation under section 26-4, leaving the cart out too long or storing it somewhere other than beside or behind the home, draws only a written warning. A second offense in the same calendar year costs $25.00, a third costs $50.00, and every further offense that year is billed the same way. Damaging, destroying or moving someone else's container is a separate offense under section 26-14, and letting a container overflow so trash spills into the pickup point violates the litter-control duty in section 26-6.
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