Gulfport, MS Trash & Recycling: Bulk Item Disposal (2026)

Section 4-174 of the Code of Ordinances puts the burden squarely on the property owner, agent, occupant or lessee: anything on the excluded list has to be transported, or have transported, to a designated city sanitary landfill or trash dump rather than set out for the regular truck. The list is specific rather than a general "large items" catch-all. It covers large appliances containing CFC or HCFC refrigerant gas, PCB-containing capacitors, or mercury switches, such as refrigerators and freezers (an appliance loses that exclusion only if it carries a tag certifying a certified technician already removed the CFC), plus television sets and other electronic waste, motors, motor vehicles, boats and vessels, and any personal property that is not normally classified as trash because it is too large or too heavy.

Hazardous waste is excluded outright. So is construction debris the property owner did not generate, and any trash generated by a third-party contractor working on the property, including tree services, utility companies, rental clean-up crews and property management services; those contractors have to remove their own waste rather than leaving it for the city truck. The section was last amended by Ordinance No. 3329 on November 21, 2023, replacing the older curbside exclusion language and folding electronic waste and contractor debris into the exclusion list explicitly.