North Charleston, SC Trash & Recycling: Bulk Item Disposal (2026)

Section 9-46(a) sorts trash into four categories: white goods and metal such as refrigerators and lawn mowers (doors must be removed from refrigerators and freezers before pickup); furniture and building materials from home improvement projects; logs and limbs up to six inches in diameter and four feet long, plus bushes and shrubs; and leaves and grass clippings, which must go in dedicated paper bags, not mixed with garbage. Subsection (b) excludes hazardous materials such as lead-acid batteries, paint, oil and roofing shingles, more than one cubic yard of concrete or brick, creosote-treated wood, large stumps, and pressurized containers; those have to go to a private hauler or the county facility instead.

Subsection (c) sets the residential curbside rules: items must be separated into their categories so crews can grab them easily, and mixed piles will not be collected. Under (c)(5), no more than the equivalent of five cubic yards of building materials will be collected on any single collection day, and large furniture items such as couches or chairs must sit near the curb but safely out of the roadway. Material cannot block water meters, fire hydrants, sprinkler heads, power lines or fences that a mechanical loader could damage.

Commercial properties must provide their own receptacles under (d), and (e)(2) bars putting trash out more than 48 hours ahead of collection, except for logs, limbs, bushes and shrubs. The city also collects up to four unmounted tires per residence on an on-call basis under (e)(5).