Sanitation

**Letter being published in the Beaufort Gazette regarding Recycling Process, please click here**

   Updated 8/12/2009

 

The City of Beaufort recycling and trash pickup is provided for residents according to the schedules below via a contract with Waste Pro.


Please review the information below for details on trash pick-up schedules, yard waste and recycling instructions, information about plastics recycling, and the waste dumpster kept in the DPW yard.

 

Household garbage pick-up is made once weekly. If you do not know your designated day for service, please either call Waste Pro at (843) 645-4100 or click on this link to see the schedule.

All household garbage to be collected by Waste Pro personnel must be placed in disposable plastic garbage bags or some other disposable container and placed in the roll cart provided by the City. The Roll Cart is to be placed inside the curb, outside the drainage ditch line of the street, near the front line of your premises, no earlier than 5:30am and no later than 7:30am on your designated day of pick-up. The Roll Cart must be removed no later than 7:30pm on your collection day.

 

No containers of any shape, size or form other than the Roll Carts provided by the City of Beaufort will be emptied and returned to the cub. Roll Carts, garbage bags or other disposable containers may not be placed on the curb or ditch line at night or weekends.

Garbage cans of any shape and size other than Roll Carts provided by the City are not permitted on the curb at any time. Racks designated to hold garbage receptacles shall not be permitted on the curb at any time.

 

Compost / Yard Debris – Leaves and branch pickup is made once weekly. If you do not know your designated day for service, please either call Waste Pro at (843) 645-4100 or click on this link to see the schedule. These items must be put in plastic bags of less than 50 lbs. and 4 feet in length or tied in bundles also 50 lbs. and 4 feet in length per bundle. Building rubbish must be removed and disposed by the contractor.

 

Bulk Items, Furniture, and Appliances – Bulk items such as furniture and “white goods” (appliances, hot water heaters, etc...) which cannot be containerized or bundled are picked up ON A CALL BASIS ONLY. Please call Waste Pro to schedule these pickups at (843) 645-4100.

 

You can contact Waste Pro and City staff by calling 843-645-4100 or by clicking the appropriate item below:

Please click on this link to see the trash collection route map.

Please click on this link to see the yard waste collction map.

Please click on this link to view a street listing showing the days of the week for garbage collection, recycling, and yard waste.