High Point, NC Trash & Recycling: Bulk Item Disposal (2026)

Under § 6-2-5(e), bulky items must be set at the curb clear of overhead wires, trees, mailboxes, utility poles, and vehicles so nothing impedes the truck. The section is explicit about scope: it covers "the occasional disposal of a mattress, appliance, furniture items, carpet, or other like items from a property owner or tenant," is not a whole-house cleanout service, does not apply to any business, and excludes tires, which residents must take to the county tire facility instead. The Code's definitions section backs this up: a "bulky item" is defined as an occasional item too large for the garbage truck, such as white goods, stoves, refrigerators, water heaters, gas grills, wheelbarrows, bicycles, lawn mowers, sofas, box springs, and carpet/padding, again with tires excluded (§ 6-2-1(4)).

Residents who need to dispose of more bulky material than the free curbside service covers can pay for the rental trash roll-off container program, which delivers a container to the property for a fee set by the director of public services; failing to follow the disposal rules posted on the container triggers additional fees, disposal costs, or refusal to accept the material (§ 6-2-15). Separately, commercial establishments may never dispose of mattresses in the landfill at all (§ 6-2-19). Administration and enforcement of the whole solid waste chapter, including bulky item rules, rests with the public services department (§ 6-2-20).