Davidson County, NC Trash & Recycling: Collection Schedule (2026)

Section 50.03(B) of the Davidson County Code of Ordinances sets the county's baseline collection requirement: the owner, occupant, tenant, or lessee of any property must remove, or cause to be removed, all solid waste from the property at least once each week, meaning at least once every seven-day period. The chapter does not establish a municipal curbside collection contract or a fixed pickup day for county trucks; instead, §50.05(A) explains that solid waste receptacles are maintained at boxsites throughout the county, owned or leased by the county, for residents' convenience, and disposal there is regulated the same as disposal at the county's sanitary landfill under §50.04.

In practice, the weekly removal duty in §50.03(B) is met by residents transporting their own waste to one of these boxsites or to the landfill, which the county keeps open during business hours set by the Board of Commissioners and can open for extended emergency hours at the direction of the County Manager. Waste generated on a person's own property must be transported covered, in a leak-proof, durable, and easily cleaned vehicle or container under §50.03(N) when self-hauled. Because the boxsite system, not curbside pickup, is the county's collection method, the seven-day clock in §50.03(B) functions as the mandatory-service deadline: property cannot sit with accumulated waste past a week regardless of how the resident gets it to a disposal point. The Planning Department's Solid Waste Enforcement Officers, appointed under §50.09, can cite a property for missing that window, with penalties running through §50.99.