Streets & Sanitation Department

Superintendent – Michael Tate

  • Phone: 864-884-4094
  • Department Hours – 7:00 am – 3:30 pm Monday – Friday

Residential Sanitation Collection:

  • Household Trash – Must be in bags and placed curbside the night before scheduled collection day.
  • Brush/Tree Trimmings – Must be five inches in diameter and four feet in length.
  • Appliances – Must be empty and doors removed.
  • Scrap metal – Most any metal accepted.
  • Scrap Lumber – Most all scrap lumber accepted.
  • Leaf Collection – Leaves are collected by vacuum and must be curbside also.
  • Paint Cans – Must be empty and dry.

Items Not Accepted:

  • Tires
  • Lead acid batteries
  • Landscape timbers
  • Cross ties, telephone poles
  • Hazardous waste
  • Chemical Containers
  • Paint cans containing wet paint
  • Construction materials from demolition or remodeling

Commercial Sanitation Collection:

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Sanitation collection is collected three ways.

  1. Two (2) days per week. Cost is $25.00 per month.
  2. Three (3) days per week. Cost is $50.00 per month.
  3. Five (5) days per week. Cost is $75.00 per month

Business owners have the option of buying dumpsters. Dumpsters are collected once per week. Cost is $60.00 per month.

The sanitation department must approve collections sites and bins.

Dumpsters:

  •  $75 per dumpster, per month, for once (1) a week pick up

For pick-ups more than once a week:

  • $125 per month, two (2) collections per week, per dumpster for customers
  • $225 per month, three (3) collections per week, per dumpster, for schools

 Roll Carts:

  •  One collection per week with one roll cart: $25 per month
  • One collection per week with two roll carts: $35 per month
  • One collection per week with three roll carts: $45 per month
  • Additional collections: two per week with number of roll carts listed above —double the fee

(example: One cart: $25. Two pick-ups a week for one cart: $50)

The city will furnish the first roll cart/carts to a commercial business.  Any lost or damaged carts will require the business owner to pay $65.00 per cart/carts.

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