Nash County, NC Trash & Recycling: Illegal Dumping (2026)

Section 20-28(c) of the Nash County Code bars any person from throwing, dumping, depositing, or causing solid waste to be thrown, dumped or deposited on a street or highway, on a public park or recreation area, or on any other public or private property, whether or not it belongs to the person dumping. C. 0502. The county's landfill rules add specific, tiered penalties for dumping certain materials there. Whole tires, used motor oil, white goods such as refrigerators and water heaters, lead-acid batteries and yard waste are banned outright from the county landfill under § 20-30(e), and disposing of corrugated cardboard from an institutional, commercial or industrial source at the landfill escalates from a written warning on a first offense to double the tipping fee on a second offense, four times the tipping fee on a third, and ten times the tipping fee for every offense after that, under § 20-30(f).

Infectious waste disposal is separately barred under § 20-30(g). Under § 20-27, any violation of the solid waste article is a misdemeanor punishable in accordance with the county's general penalty, § 1-7, up to $500 per offense, with each day of a continuing violation a separate offense, and the county may also seek restitution in court for damages or extra expenses the dumping caused.