Buncombe County, NC Trash & Recycling: Dumpster Rules (2026)

Section 62-28(c)(2) makes the owner, proprietor or person in charge of any commercial, small business, industrial or institutional building, parking lot or site jointly and severally responsible for providing solid waste receptacles of sufficient size and quantity, sized per Sec. 62-30(a)'s storage standards. The duty names shopping centers, supermarkets, convenience stores, fast food and other restaurants, service stations, industries, schools, churches and other institutions as covered establishments, and requires that spillage and overflow from those containers be cleaned up by the establishment immediately as it occurs.

Section 62-26 separately defines the container types this duty covers: a "dumpster" is a one- to 42-cubic-yard unit, open or enclosed, lifted by a specially equipped truck that becomes part of the truck while hauling; a "detachable or roll-off container" carries the same one-to-42-cubic-yard range and is used for building materials, business trash, industrial waste, hazardous refuse or other solid waste; and a "bulk container" runs two to eight cubic yards, watertight, with drain plugs at its lowest point. Section 62-28(a) separately bars anyone from permitting an open dump or an unsanitary or unsightly accumulation of solid waste on land they own, occupy or lease, and section 62-28(d) requires construction and demolition sites to provide onsite receptacles, bulk containers or dumpsters for loose debris and to remove any material tracked outside the site by the end of the workday.

The Solid Waste Department, headed by the director of solid waste, administers and enforces this article; Sec. 62-27 excludes any incorporated town or city from the article entirely.