Pitt County, NC Trash & Recycling: Bulk Item Disposal (2026)

The ordinance defines 'Bulky Waste' in Section 4 as large items of solid waste such as household appliances, furniture, junk automobiles, large junk auto parts, trees, branches, stumps, and other oversize waste whose size complicates normal collection. Section 10(A) governs the rural recycling sites where residents drop that waste: commercial and industrial firms, apartment complexes, handlers of hazardous or prohibited waste, governmental agencies, schools, non-profit organizations, and any other nonresidential generator may not deposit waste into the rural containers without written approval from the Board of County Commissioners, though those groups can deposit separated recyclables with written permission from the Solid Waste Department.

Section 10(B) then restricts what any user, resident or otherwise, can put in the bulk containers without written authorization from the Solid Waste Department: items already restricted under Section 7's landfill-management rules, construction and land-clearing materials, concrete and roadway debris, pesticides and herbicides, stumps, hazardous wastes, animal or fowl fecal matter and other animal waste, and ashes. Section 10 also restricts site access, barring four-wheel-drive vehicles, trail or dirt motorcycles, bicycles, go-carts, and other small motorized vehicles from the property, and limits who may be present on site to county employees, county contractors, and people actually depositing waste or recyclables.

Section 12 separately bars scavenging: no one may remove or salvage anything from the waste handling facility, municipal transfer sites, or recycling sites unless the county authorizes the salvage.