Spartanburg County, SC Trash & Recycling: Collection Schedule (2026)

Sections 66-5 and 66-6 fund the county sanitary landfill through a mandatory annual service charge on every residential property in unincorporated Spartanburg County, applied per unit for apartments and duplexes and per pad for mobile home parking spaces, not just per parcel. The charge rides on the annual property tax bill and is collected the same way county taxes are collected. If it goes unpaid, Section 66-5 turns it into a lien against the property that outranks every other lien or encumbrance except the property tax lien itself, and it accrues interest and penalties exactly like delinquent taxes; the county can also pursue collection through any other lawful method, so the tax-lien remedy is not exclusive.

Section 66-6 does not print a dollar figure in the code; instead, it directs residents to a fee schedule set from time to time and kept on file and available at county offices. A separate structure applies to non-residential haulers: Section 66-7 bills industrial, commercial, and municipal haulers by tonnage or volume at the landfill, crediting municipalities and commercial haulers for any amount their own customers already paid under Section 66-5 so there is no double charge, while residents who personally haul their own household garbage to the landfill are not charged again.

Section 66-9 requires all of this revenue to sit in a dedicated fund used only for landfill acquisition, maintenance, equipment, operations, or debt service on landfill bonds, and Section 66-2 names the county solid waste management division as the primary enforcement agency, backed by all law enforcement officers, magistrates and constables in the county.