Franklin County, NC Trash & Recycling: Bulk Item Disposal (2026)

Franklin County Code § 24-4 defines bulky waste as large items of solid waste, such as furniture, a mattress, a television, or other oversize waste whose size 'precludes or complicates' handling by normal collection, processing, or disposal methods. Residents cannot simply drop unlimited bulky items at a neighborhood convenience center: § 24-89(b) gives the site attendant authority to limit how much bulky waste a resident can bring in, based on the center's container capacity and the day of the week (Saturday runs at high capacity), and caps residents at one load of bulky waste per day per household.

Anyone with multiple loads must take them directly to the county solid waste transfer station instead, a step the code says will be cleared by the solid waste manager. At the transfer station, § 24-60(b) gives county residential homeowners, including town residents, the first 2,000 pounds of any waste material free of charge each visit; everything after that first 2,000 pounds is billed at the rates set in § 24-59, which the board of commissioners adopts annually in the county budget ordinance. The transfer station operates Monday through Friday 7:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and Saturday 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. for residents with non-paying loads, per § 24-58.

Contractors hauling on a resident's behalf cannot use the resident's free allowance: § 24-60(e) bars a resident from driving a contractor's truck to the landfill to claim the first 2,000 pounds free.