Bonner County, ID Trash & Recycling: Bulk Item Disposal (2026)

Title 7 of the Bonner County Revised Code governs solid waste in unincorporated Bonner County, Idaho, and the Board of County Commissioners administers the system under § 7-150. Section 7-210(B) makes every county established containerized collection site, called a drop box, a collection component of the solid waste disposal system, and subsection C limits the sites and containers to private household residents. Subsection D then draws the line on what can go into the dumpsters. No brush, no yard waste, no construction waste, and no household appliances or household furnishings in excess of five (5) cubic feet total volume may be deposited.

The section adds a second class of items: other materials of similar character that are too large or too heavy to fit into the provided containers. Everything in both groups must be transported to the designated waste disposal site, and the location of that site is identified at the collection location. Section 7-100 defines bulky waste as waste with an extraordinary volume to weight ratio that makes handling at a landfill facility inconvenient or wasteful of disposal space, which is the problem subsection D addresses.

Residents who haul their own load also carry the duty in § 7-220 to prevent littering, spilling, leaking or dripping upon county roads. Section 7-221, which covers commercial solid waste trucks, allows open trucks to haul bulk loads only if a tarp or canvas covers the load to keep materials from blowing off. Section 7-401(C) separately makes it a violation to dispose of solid waste at a collection site outside of the bulk containers provided.