FAQs

Addressing litter in our community is a top priority to County leaders, staff and residents. The Board of County Commissioners appointed a Litter Task Force to work with County staff on ideas and strategies to reduce litter on our area roadways, and many of those initiatives are already underway. Learn more on the County website. 

Organize or help with a litter clean-up, take steps to prevent litter from your vehicle, and regularly address litter on your property and in your general vicinity. If everyone in Union County helped with these three simple steps, our community would be much cleaner! Learn more on the County website.

Review the information on this page under Reporting Litter as well as our Litter Map. This is a new tool we are using to gather residents' input on where litter is most problematic in our community. We'll share the information we receive with law enforcement.

Preventing litter starts by having a plan to manage waste responsibly. Have you stopped to think about the ways you can prevent litter?

• Do you keep a bag in your car to help gather trash?
• Do you always bag your trash before putting it in your curbside garbage cart or hauling your trash to a disposal facility?
• Do you talk to your kids and any new drivers in your household about steps they can take to prevent litter?
• Do you have trash cans publicly available at your business, school, community gathering place, or place of worship?
• Do you help ensure there is a plan for responsible trash disposal at your community or school events?
• Do you clean up any litter that falls on your own property?

These are just some of the best practices and conversation starters to ensure that you, your household or organization are doing everything you can to help keep Union County litter free.

Yes! Community clean-up events can be fun team-building events for your church, business, school, or community group, plus Union County Solid Waste makes these events easy to organize by loaning or giving you the supplies!

If you're planning a community clean-up in Union County, you are eligible to get these supplies for free:

• safety vests (must be returned after use)
• litter grabbers (must be returned after use)
• gloves & trash bags (free disposal, along with any trash you collect.)
  
  

Visit our website to learn more.