Trash & yard debris
Household garbage is collected under the city's contract with Jordan Waste. Yard debris is picked up by the city for residents inside the city limits, by request.
Household garbage
Collected by Jordan Waste under city contract, early Tuesday mornings. Trash placed on top of or beside the can isn't picked up.
Yard debris
City leaf & limb pickup for in-city residents, Monday–Wednesday, seasonal trimmings & prunings. Call to schedule.
Bulky & hazardous
Furniture, appliances, paint, oil, batteries and construction waste are not collected. See the list ›
Live outside the city limits?
City curbside pickup (Jordan Waste) serves addresses inside Loris. If your address is in unincorporated Horry County, the county runs self-haul collection centers in the Loris area, in Loris, Longs, Sarvis, Mount Olive, Red Bluff, and Dorman's Crossroads, for county residents. Check the county's page for locations and hours.
Horry County collection centers & hours ↗
How do the county collection sites work?
They are self-haul drop-off sites, not curbside: the county Solid Waste Authority (SWA) says it “does not provide residential trash or recycling curbside collection.” The recycling centers are “for residents living in the unincorporated areas of Horry County ONLY.” If your address is inside the Loris city limits, use city curbside above instead.
Do you have to separate bottles and cans from the trash? Keep recycling out of your household garbage, but you do not have to sort the recyclables from each other. Cans, glass bottles and jars, plastic bottles and jugs marked #1 through #7, cardboard, and paper all go in together; the county hand-sorts them later at its recycling facility. Please rinse containers and flatten cardboard.
Accepted for recycling (from the SWA’s 2025 Recycling Guidebook): aluminum and steel cans, cardboard, glass bottles and jars, newspaper and mixed paper, paperboard such as cereal and cracker boxes, and #1–#7 plastic bottles and jugs. Centers also take batteries, cooking oil, electronics, scrap metal, textiles, tires, used motor oil, and yard waste. Not accepted: plastic bags (take them to a grocery store), Styrofoam, wax-coated cartons like milk and juice, light bulbs, mirrors, ceramics, and paper or foam plates.
Hours & limits: the centers are open 7 a.m.–6 p.m. Monday–Saturday and 1 p.m.–6 p.m. Sunday, and individual centers each take one weekday off (the Loris center at 1485 Hwy 9 Business East is closed Wednesdays); check the county’s list for a specific site. Residents may bring up to 4 cubic yards of material per day.
Household garbage: the county’s site details recycling drop-off but does not spell out a household-trash procedure at the centers. To confirm what a specific center takes, or how to handle household garbage without city pickup, call the SWA at (843) 347-1651.
Sourced from the Horry County Solid Waste Authority: collection centers & hours, what to recycle, and the 2025 Recycling Guidebook (PDF). County figures aren’t transcribed beyond what’s quoted here; the county’s pages are authoritative.
What's collected, and what isn't
From the city's Sanitation Department page, for yard debris collected by the city. Household garbage itself is handled by Jordan Waste.
Yard debris the city collects
- Normal seasonal yard trimmings and prunings, for residents inside the city limits
- Grass clippings
- Leaves
- Tree trimmings
- Limbs & branches, within the size limits at right
Not collected
- Yard waste from landscape contractors or tree services
- Abnormal quantities, lot clearing, tree removals, or stumps
- Bulky items, furniture, appliances, etc.
- Hazardous materials, medical waste, automotive waste (batteries, oil)
- Building / construction waste
Limb & branch size limits
So crews can collect it, the city requires limbs and branches to be cut to size:
How to schedule a yard-debris pickup
The city collects yard debris by request, call City Hall, and leaf & limb is collected Monday–Wednesday.