Moore County, NC Trash & Recycling: Yard Waste Collection (2026)

Section 8-182, adopted with the county's 1989 Solid Waste Container Ordinance, lists what no person shall place in a solid waste container site, and yard waste and brush sit on that list alongside fire or embers, oil and other liquids, poisons, chemicals, herbicides and pesticides, stumps and logs, tires, infectious waste, lead acid batteries, animals, concrete, construction material and radioactive waste. Because the container sites under Sec. 8-181 are meant for residential garbage and designated recyclables, the county keeps bulky yard debris out of that stream entirely rather than accepting it there.

The related landfill acceptability table that follows this division lists brush, tree trimmings, leaves and general refuse from residences as accepted material at the county landfill itself, and flags stumps and logs as not acceptable even there, so residents disposing of yard waste in unincorporated Moore County need to route it to the landfill rather than a neighborhood container site, and keep large stumps and logs out of the waste stream altogether. Sec. 00 reward for reporting anyone who ignites one. Enforcement of the Sec. 8-182 list runs through the same Solid Waste Department oversight that governs the rest of the container-site rules.