DeSoto County doesn't have a landfill of its own. For furniture, appliances, limbs and remodeling debris, residents use the county's two rubbish pits: the county-run pit at 5255 W. Sandidge Road in Olive Branch and the privately operated Starlanding Rubbish Pit in Lake Cormorant.
Every resident gets four free visits per calendar month. Both pits are open weekdays 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Sandidge Road is also open Saturday mornings, and it's the only one that takes tires and TVs. Household garbage isn't accepted at either one.
Disposal sites in DeSoto County
DeSoto County Rubbish Pit (Sandidge Road)
Rubbish pit
DeSoto County
5255 W. Sandidge Rd., Olive Branch, MS 38654 Directions ↗
Rubbish pit visit, first 4 each calendar month (residents)
Free
Tires (Sandidge Road)
Up to 25 a month, no dealers
TVs and electronics (Sandidge Road)
Taken for recycling
Household garbage
Not accepted at the pits
Curbside garbage, unincorporated county (from Oct. 1, 2026)
$19.80 a month
Curbside recycling (separate sign-up)
$11.32 a month
Extra cart
$6 a month
From the county's Rubbish Pit and Garbage & Recycling pages. The county doesn't publish a price for a fifth visit in a month; call the Sandidge Road pit at (662) 895-9705 during business hours.
In unincorporated DeSoto County and the Town of Walls, Waste Connections picks up garbage once a week on a day set by your address, and only what fits in the cart goes. Bills come quarterly. Recycling pickup isn't automatic; you sign up for it, or use one of the county's nine recycling drop-off locations for paper, plastic, cardboard and aluminum. If you live inside Hernando, Horn Lake, Olive Branch or Southaven, your city handles garbage service; call city hall.
The county holds a household hazardous waste day, usually in the spring, and announces the date early each year. That's the place for paint, chemicals and batteries, which the rubbish pits won't take.
Mississippi law keeps two things out of landfills. Car batteries: lead-acid batteries are banned from landfill disposal, and a store that sells you a new battery has to take back your old one. Whole tires: landfills and rubbish sites can't accept them under MDEQ's rules, so tires go to county tire collection sites or back to the tire store. State law doesn't ban appliances, TVs or yard waste from disposal; each county sets its own rules for those.
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Getting rid of something specific in DeSoto County?
Yes, for residents: each DeSoto County resident gets four free visits a month to the county rubbish pits on Sandidge Road in Olive Branch and Starlanding Road in Lake Cormorant.
What are the DeSoto County rubbish pit hours?
Weekdays 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at both pits. Sandidge Road is also open Saturdays, 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. through November 1, 2026 and 7 a.m. to noon from November 2 to March 14, 2027. Starlanding is closed Saturdays.
Can I take household garbage to the DeSoto County rubbish pit?
No. The pits take appliances, furniture, limbs, leaves and renovation debris, but not household garbage, food containers or batteries. Household garbage goes in your curbside cart.
Where can I get rid of tires in DeSoto County?
The Sandidge Road rubbish pit in Olive Branch takes up to 25 tires a month from residents. Tire dealers and other businesses can't use it.
