North Carolina
Landfill
Dudley landfill
Hours, sticker price, who can use it, item fees, hazardous waste options, and holiday notes for Wayne County Dudley Landfill.
Last verified from official sources: 2026-11-11
Who can use it
The Wayne County Landfill and convenience centers only accept waste generated in Wayne County. The official landfill page says the Solid Waste user fee on your tax bill allows you to use the county landfill and recycling and convenience centers to dispose of household trash. That user fee does not include construction debris (shingles, sheetrock, lumber, and similar), yard waste, or unsorted trash. Liquids and hazardous waste are not accepted. Wayne County does not provide pickup of waste.
Hours
- Landfill: Monday through Saturday 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.; Sunday closed. The official Solid Waste page and the Dudley Landfill facility page both list these hours.
- Convenience centers: Monday through Saturday 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.; Sunday closed, according to the official Solid Waste page. Confirm individual site locations on the county facilities directory; a complete site list was not in the fetched Solid Waste or Landfill page text.
Sticker or permit
Required: No (see notes)
Price: Household user fee $50 per year, listed on the official fee schedule. The landfill page describes this as the Solid Waste user fee on the tax bill.
Where to buy:
Notes: Payment methods on the official fee schedule: cash or check; a pre-approved charge account; debit and credit cards (Visa or Mastercard) with a processing fee of $2 or 3.25%, whichever is greater.
Per-item fees
| Item | Fee |
|---|---|
| Tipping fees | $45 per ton ($5 minimum charge) |
| Household user fee | $50 per year |
| Asbestos | $75 per ton ($50 minimum charge) |
| Uncertified tires | $76 per ton |
| Recycled items | No charge, according to the official Solid Waste page |
| Contract haulers license | $100 per year |
| Cleanup fee for items illegally dumped in unauthorized areas | $50 minimum |
| Cardboard fines | 1st offense warning; 2nd offense $200; 3rd offense $400; 4th and subsequent offenses $600 |
Common disposals
Pulled from the same official sources as the fee table. Confirm with the town if anything conflicts.
- Mattress / box spring: Not separately listed. Furniture is accepted in the lined landfill area after recyclables are removed.
- TVs / electronics: Not listed as a separately accepted item on the fetched landfill or Solid Waste pages.
- Tires: Accepted in the recycling area. Ten or fewer at any time; more than 10 on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Uncertified tires are $76 per ton on the fee schedule.
- Appliances: Accepted in the recycling area. Doors must be removed from freezers and refrigerators. White goods are banned from the landfill itself. Recycled items are listed as no charge.
- Yard waste / brush: Listed under construction and demolition on the landfill page (limbs, stumps). The user-fee description says the tax-bill fee does not include yard waste. Confirm the charge at the scale house.
- Household hazardous waste: Hazardous waste is not accepted at the landfill or convenience centers. Batteries and used oil have designated recycling places and are banned from the landfill.
Hazardous waste
Hazardous waste is not accepted at the landfill or at the convenience centers. White goods, aluminum cans, batteries, cardboard, and used oil are banned from the landfill; the county has designated places for those items.
Holiday closures
The official Solid Waste, Landfill, Dudley facility, and fee-schedule pages fetched on November 11, 2026, did not list holiday closures. Check with Wayne County Solid Waste before a holiday.
Holiday schedule last verified 2026-11-11 from official sources .
Other notes
- The landfill is divided into a lined landfill, a construction and demolition area, and recycling. Construction and demolition cannot be mixed with other waste. All metal must be separated. The lined landfill area accepts furniture and household waste after recyclables are removed. The C&D area accepts brick, concrete, land-clearing debris, roofing materials, shingles, wood, and (on the landfill page) yard waste such as limbs and stumps. The recycling area accepts appliances (doors must be removed from freezers and refrigerators), lead-acid batteries, metal (bikes, mowers, aluminum siding, rebar, and similar), vinyl siding (listed on the landfill page), tires, and wire (metal bands and metal clothes hangers).
- Ten tires or fewer may be disposed of at any time. Quantities of more than 10 may be disposed of on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
- Convenience-center rules on the official Solid Waste page: no contractors or commercial waste; no dump trailers or trailers longer than 10 feet; no heaping loads (those go to the main landfill); no box trucks or trucks larger than a pickup truck; no hazardous waste. Report illegal dumping at (919) 689-2994 or (919) 222-7124.
- The official Solid Waste contact block lists the physical address as 460 B S Landfill Road, Dudley, NC 28333. The Dudley Landfill facility page lists 460B S Landfill Road. Those are the same site with slightly different spacing in the street number.
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Sources
Every fee and hour above was taken from these official pages or PDFs on 2026-11-11. If something conflicts, trust the town.