Greenwood County, SC Trash & Recycling: Pickup Rules & Schedules (2026)

Section 8-1-24 establishes the green box roadside collection system as a facility for the collection of household sanitary waste in unincorporated Greenwood County. Subsection (a) makes it unlawful for any business or nonprofit agency or concern to use the green box system to dispose of its waste without first obtaining the county's written consent, closing off commercial dumping at neighborhood sites intended for residents. Subsection (b) gives the county manager or a designee discretion to admit low-volume waste generators into the green box system when those generators cannot reasonably be served by a private commercial hauler, an exception tied to the low-volume-generator service charge set under section 8-1-21.

Administration of the system falls to the county manager under section 8-1-25, who is authorized to issue administrative rules and regulations implementing the article, including placement of containers and routing of collection vehicles under section 8-1-2(c). Users remain bound by the general standards in section 8-1-5: waste must be deposited wholly inside the container, no fires may be set in or near a container, and no one may scavenge a green box without the manager's permission. Unauthorized commercial use of a green box, or a violation of the placement and scavenging standards, is punished as an Article A violation under section 8-1-3(b), a fine of at least $100.00 in the county's magistrates' courts.