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

Surry County treats bulky items such as furniture and large appliances differently from routine household garbage. Section 110.04(H) allows bulky wastes to be disposed of at the county landfill, but only with the landfill manager's permission or that of the manager's representative. The same permission requirement applies again at the landfill gate: § 110.09(B)(1) lists bulky wastes among the materials that may not be disposed of in the landfills without permission of the landfill manager or a representative, alongside construction and demolition debris, unquartered tires, infectious waste and wet sludge.

Bulky items cannot substitute for the county's shared solid waste receptacles either. Section 110.10(C)(5) expressly excludes bulky wastes, along with hazardous, liquid, infectious and radioactive wastes, tires and construction/demolition debris, from being deposited in the metal receptacles the county provides at its collection points. That leaves the landfill, by prior arrangement, as the only lawful disposal route for a couch, mattress or similar oversized item generated in the unincorporated county. Construction and demolition waste gets the same treatment: § 110.04(G) allows it at the county landfill only with permission from the landfill manager or a representative.

The Local Ordinance Officer, Development Services Director, Sheriff's Office and Environmental Health inspectors enforce this chapter under § 110.02, and a violation is subject to the § 110.99 civil citation and misdemeanor penalties that apply chapter-wide.