Month: December 2024

The next monthly Brown & White pickup is Friday, January 3, 2025.

Bulk items can be left curbside by 7:00 am. Place items including furniture, appliances, grills, lawn furniture, or other similar household items where you would normally leave your trash and recycling.

Hazardous waste such as old paint cans, electronics, batteries, fluorescent lights, and old yard or household chemicals can be taken to the Maintenance area (adjacent to the Community Garden, 2902B Seabrook Island Road) that morning between 9:00 am and 2:00 pm. Hazardous materials must be handed directly to the attendant on duty. The materials cannot be left on the ground. 

Before you put your used furniture or other items on the curb for Brown & White Pickup on Friday, consider recycling them with Seabrook Island Habitat for Humanity Restore. Contact the store at 843-559-4009 for more information and to arrange for free pick up of large items.

See the SIPOA Garbage, Recycling, and Yard Debris Pickup Schedule 2025 here.

–Tidelines Editors

Rubbish Disposal on Seabrook Island

How well do you think you know the dos and don’ts, the ins and outs, the who, what, when, and where of life on Seabrook Island?

Here’s a chance to test your knowledge and expand your understanding of the rules and regulations on Seabrook Island. Every other Sunday Tidelines will send out a short quiz called Tidelines Quiz Time covering a variety of topics relevant to living on Seabrook.

Sharpen your pencils and see how you do! Answers will appear at the bottom of each post but don’t peek before you’ve answered the questions.

 Let’s see how you do with these questions about the community trash compactor, the final questions concerning rubbish disposal on Seabrook Island:

1. A garbage compactor is available for the convenience of property owners and residents who will not be on Seabrook Island on refuse collection days and need to dispose of their kitchen garbage and inside house trash only. (   ) TRUE   (   ) FALSE
2. Trash and recycling should be left on the ground for someone else to put into the compactor or recycling bins. (   ) TRUE    (   ) FALSE
3. Contractors and other commercial enterprises are welcome to use the compactor and recycling facility.

1. TRUE – A garbage compactor IS available for the convenience of property owners and residents who will not be on Seabrook Island on refuse collection days and need to dispose of their kitchen garbage and inside house trash only.
2. FALSE – Trash and recycling should be PUT IN the compactor or recycling bins and NOT left on the ground.
3. FALSE – The compactor and recycling facility is not for use by contractors or commercial enterprises and is not for the disposal of construction trash, paint, harmful chemicals, or bulk trash items.

Got all three correct? Woo hoo! Two out of three right? Not bad. Only one out of three? All three wrong? You might want to study up! Click here to find all you need to know about the community trash compactor on Seabrook Island.

–Tidelines Editors

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