Greenwood County, SC Trash & Recycling: Bulk Item Disposal (2026)

Section 8-1-5(e) of the Code of Greenwood County makes it unlawful to deposit large, bulky items in containers belonging to the county, and lists furniture, appliances, leaves, limbs, building materials, mattresses, rocks, bricks, cement, dead animals, uncrushed cardboard boxes, and automotive tires and parts as examples of items not considered household waste. The same section requires that any solid waste deposited at a county trash container site go wholly inside the container provided, with nothing placed or left in the surrounding area. Section 8-1-5(f) separately bars scavenging any container or landfill site without the county manager's permission, and section 8-1-5(c) prohibits setting fires in or around containers.

Because section 8-1-5 sits in Article A of Chapter 8-1 (Solid Waste), a violation is punished under section 8-1-3(b): anyone found guilty of violating an Article A provision that falls outside the state's general littering statute, S.C. Code § 16-11-700, is subject to a fine of at least $100.00, with jurisdiction resting in the magistrates' courts of the county. The county manager, under section 8-1-2(c), delegates enforcement duties including placement of containers, routing of collection vehicles, and inspection of container sites to the animal/litter control department, which operates under the county manager's general supervision per section 8-1-2(b).

Residents needing to dispose of furniture, appliances or construction debris must instead use the county landfill or arrange a private hauler; the green box roadside sites under section 8-1-24 are limited to household sanitary waste.