Solid Waste Disposal

Functions

York County Solid Waste Disposal is responsible for operating and maintaining a Solid Waste Transfer Station designed for the processing of municipal solid waste. The waste is received from municipalities and private waste haulers and loaded onto trailers for transport and disposal in an approved landfill facility in Richland County, South Carolina.

The county also operates a Construction and Demolition landfill where all construction type waste meeting regulatory guidelines is disposed of in the landfill. Waste tires are also collected at the York County landfill where they are shipped to a tire processing facility for recycling. Solid Waste Disposal also accepts yard debris at the landfill facility.

Responsibilities

• Operation of a Waste Transfer Station for disposal of municipal solid waste and commercial waste
• Operation of a Construction, Demolition, and Land Clearing Debris landfill
• Processing of scrap metal and white goods for recycling
• Processing of waste tires through recycling
• Documentation of all wastes that enter and exit the landfill
• Billing of landfill accounts
• Performs regulatory monitoring of groundwater under landfill closure regulations
• Performs regulatory monitoring of methane generation under landfill closure regulations

Separate your waste as you load your material.
Different waste goes in different locations.

This Office Does Not

• Perform residential garbage collection
• Manage the collection and recycling centers (see Solid Waste Collection and Recycling)
• Place disposal boxes at construction sites
• Accept liquids of any type (see Solid Waste Collection and Recycling)
• Accept asbestos shingles or siding