Midland, TX Trash & Recycling: Bulk Item Disposal (2026)

012(a) makes it an offense to dispose of litter or solid waste anywhere that isn't an approved solid waste site, including within 300 feet of a public highway, on a right-of-way, on other public or private property, or into state water. Receiving waste for illegal disposal, subsection (b), and transporting waste to an unapproved site, subsection (c), are separate offenses. Punishment scales with the size of the dump under subsections (d) through (g): a Class C misdemeanor for five pounds or five gallons or less, up through Class B (more than five pounds but less than 500) and Class A (500 to 1,000 pounds), to a state jail felony for 1,000 pounds or more, 200 cubic feet or more, waste dumped for a commercial purpose weighing 200 pounds or more, or waste contained in a closed barrel or drum.

A prior conviction bumps the next offense to the next-highest category under (h), and courts must order community service on conviction under (s). Locally, Midland's own companion rule addresses the bulky material a resident actually generates: § 8-6-15 requires that heavy accumulations, brick, broken concrete, lumber, yardwaste, construction materials, cinders, dirt, plaster, sand, gravel, automobile frames, dead trees and other bulky material, including debris from vacant lots, be disposed of immediately at the owner's expense, and bars storing that material in an alley, right-of-way, or on someone else's private property. 00 per truckload or fraction of a truckload.