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

The ordinance's definitions section describes yard waste as 'leaves, limbs, grass trimmings, unpainted and untreated wood, pallets and other vegetative material' (§ 4). Section 5, titled Recycling, requires 'all persons, firms, or corporations using the waste handling facility, transfer station and recycling centers' to separate nine categories of material from their general waste stream before disposal, listing yard waste alongside whole tires, aluminum cans, white goods, lead-acid batteries, used oil, corrugated cardboard from nonresidential establishments, and noncombustible construction debris, plus 'any other materials which the Pitt County Board of Commissioners may require to be separated' (§ 5(I)).

Pitt County itself does not run curbside yard-waste pickup: § 6 sets the waste handling facility's and recycling centers' hours on a schedule the Board of Commissioners posts at each gate, and § 8(G) lists lawful disposal routes for a resident's own yard waste, including burying it in a manner approved by the Board or DEHNR, burning it in an approved incinerator, or disposing it 'in a container including but not limited to dumpsters, trash cans for pickup by municipal or private waste refuse collectors.' Residents inside Greenville, Winterville, Ayden or Farmville instead follow whatever brush-collection schedule their own municipality sets, since this county ordinance applies countywide under G.S.

153A-136 but municipalities may run their own separate service. Anyone who brings mixed yard waste to a County site without separating it is subject to the waste-handling-facility rules under §§ 6 and 7, which let the Solid Waste Supervisor require a hauler to remove unacceptable or unseparated material before it is accepted.