Trash & Recycling in Columbia, MO (2026)

Columbia Code of Ordinances § 22-159(a), (b)

Every single family home, duplex, and apartment buildings containing four (4) living units or less shall use the city's curbside refuse collection service. Residential curbside refuse customers shall use a refuse cart provided by the city for the collection of refuse. When using a refuse cart, the customer may, but is not required to, place refuse in a trash bag prior to placing the refuse in t...

Columbia Code of Ordinances § 22-158(b)(11), (e)

Except on the scheduled day of collection, it shall be unlawful to place or store a refuse and/or recycling cart or any other refuse and/or recycling storage container outdoors at any location on the premises which is not immediately adjacent to the residential structure or any accessory structure on the property.(c)Information obtained from waste disposed or deposited in violation of this sect...

Columbia Code of Ordinances § 22-159(f)(1)

Collection of bulky items will be provided for residential customers receiving curbside collection. Bulky items are normal household items that are too large to be placed in the refuse cart. Materials resulting from the erection, destruction or remodeling of a building, felled trees, large automobile parts, hazardous materials, etc., and items which generally cannot be handled by two (2) indivi...

Columbia Code of Ordinances § 22-159.1

(a) Recycling pickup. As part of its basic service to residential customers, as set out in section 22-159, the city will also provide weekly pickup of recyclable material. ... (b) Recycling bags. Three (3) blue bag vouchers per year will be provided to each residential unit paying the monthly rate for curbside pickup. Each voucher may be redeemed for eighteen (18) recycling bags. ... It shall b...

Columbia Code of Ordinances § 22-159(c)

Residential refuse pickup shall be made once weekly according to a schedule established by the director. The director may vary the schedule and will post notice of any such variance because of weather conditions or other conditions which make the normal collection schedule impractical. When a holiday is observed on the normal day of collection, the collection will be made the following day or a...

Columbia Code of Ordinances § 22-158(b)(7)

It shall be unlawful for any person to dispose of any refuse by depositing the same in any public alley, street, roadway, vacant lot or property of any kind or character within the city or in any stream or body of water within the city, or by burning garbage. However, nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the disposition of refuse by means of burning the same in an incinerator ...

Columbia Code of Ordinances §§ 22-156, 22-158(b)(6)

Yard Waste. Leaves, grass clippings, brush and limbs, yard and garden vegetation and Christmas trees. The term does not include stumps, roots or shrubs with intact root balls. ... It shall be unlawful for any person, partnership or corporation to place or allow any refuse, or yard waste to remain at the curb or edge of the roadway on any day other than the scheduled day of collection for that l...

Columbia Code of Ordinances § 22-161(a)(1), (a)(5), (d)

Every person owning, managing, operating, leasing or renting any commercial premises where excessive amounts of refuse and/or recycling accumulate shall maintain a metal bulk storage container or containers, approved by the director, of sufficient size to contain all refuse and/or recycling which the establishment accumulates between collections. ... Material shall be collected at a point joint...

Columbia Code of Ordinances § 22-159(c)

(c) Collection and pickup. Residential refuse pickup shall be made once weekly according to a schedule established by the director. The director may vary the schedule and will post notice of any such variance because of weather conditions or other conditions which make the normal collection schedule impractical. When a holiday is observed on the normal day of collection, the collection will be ...