Granville County, NC Trash & Recycling: Recycling Rules (2026)

Section 38-105(a) sets the ground rule for who may collect recyclables in unincorporated Granville County: except for municipalities within the county, the Camp Butner Reservation, or a person hauling garbage, refuse or solid waste generated on its own property using its own vehicles, collection of garbage, refuse, solid waste and recyclables is governed entirely by the terms of the solid waste collection franchise ordinance and agreement between the county and its franchisee. As of the ordinance's effective date, the county was also the only entity licensed to operate a solid waste disposal facility, which channels where collected recyclables and waste ultimately go.

Subsection (b) puts fee-setting in the board of commissioners' hands: the board regulates and governs the fees operators of disposal facilities can charge for garbage, refuse, solid waste and recyclables. Subsection (c) then sets vehicle standards for anyone hauling those materials commercially or industrially, requiring covered, leakproof, durable, easily cleaned vehicles or containers, with open-body trucks covered by canvas or similar material so contents cannot fall, leak, spill or blow out; anyone whose load spills or leaks has to recover the material immediately and clean the area.

Because § 38-105 sets no separate criminal or civil fine of its own, a violation of the collection-licensing scheme defaults to the franchise's own penalty in § 38-117(f), a $500.00 fine and up to 30 days in jail for collecting outside the franchise, or the general civil penalty procedure in Code § 1-6 for other subsection (c) violations.