Darlington County, SC Trash & Recycling: Illegal Dumping (2026)

Darlington County Code § 50-43 lists specific prohibited acts at the county's recycling and solid waste convenience stations and within any container meant to collect refuse: placing anything other than approved household or office waste in a disposal bag, leaving refuse at a station when it is closed, overfilling or overloading a container so its lid or door cannot close, putting burning items, flammable solutions or explosives into a collection container, starting a fire in or near a container or disposal vehicle, scavenging from a container or county vehicle, hauling in waste collected for a fee without written county consent, bringing in solid waste generated outside the county, loitering or trespassing at a station, and arriving outside posted hours.

Section 50-1 separately bars dumping, throwing or discharging litter or solid waste on any public or private property, or into any stream, river, lake, creek or branch, except at a designated disposal site or into a proper litter receptacle. Enforcement runs through the sheriff's office, county code enforcement and, for licensed haulers, through the county administrator's power to suspend or cancel a hauling license for up to three years under § 50-42(f). The county council may also seek injunctive relief in a court of competent jurisdiction against a continuing violator, and anyone who spills hazardous or nonhazardous material must clean it up or pay the county's cleanup cost.