Mount Pleasant, SC Trash & Recycling: Dumpster Rules (2026)

495, titled COMMERCIAL-TYPE DUMPSTER, states the location rule in a single sentence covering every zoning district in the Town: dumpsters cannot sit in a public right-of-way, which keeps them off streets, sidewalks, and the road shoulder. 495 itself does not spell out: a commercial-type dumpster tied to construction may remain on a site for 60 days or for the duration of construction under a valid building permit, and it must be removed within 14 days after the town issues a final certificate of occupancy. The table lists this use as requiring no separate zoning permit and as allowed in all districts, so a contractor does not need district-specific approval to stage a roll-off container, only compliance with the right-of-way and removal-timing rules.

Because the rule sits in the Zoning Code's temporary-use subpart rather than the solid waste chapter, it is administered by the Department of Planning, Land Use, and Neighborhoods alongside building permits issued by Engineering and Development Services, and a dumpster left in place past the removal deadline becomes an unauthorized temporary structure rather than a garbage-collection matter.