5 county-level rules, plus city-specific rules for 1 city in Ramsey County, Minnesota.
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In Ramsey County (Minnesota), cities arrange residential trash and recycling collection — the county does not collect. St. Paul uses organized citywide collection (all 1–4 unit homes auto-enrolled). All collected trash is then delivered to the county's R&E Center in Newport.
Ramsey County (Minnesota) does not set cart-placement rules; your city does. In St. Paul, put carts out by 6 a.m. on collection day at the edge of the alley or curb, lid arrows facing out, three feet apart, never in the street or behind fences or cars.
Ramsey County (Minnesota) runs free yard-waste drop-off sites and household hazardous waste (HHW) collection; bulky-item pickup is arranged through your city. St. Paul offers free mattress and bulky-item collection. State law bars yard waste from the trash.
Minn. Stat. §115A.931
a person may not place yard waste: (1) in mixed municipal solid waste; (2) in a disposal facility; or (3) in a resource recovery facility except for the purposes of reuse, composting, or cocomposting.
Ramsey County (Minnesota) and its cities provide curbside recycling to residents. St. Paul auto-enrolls homes in single-sort recycling. Under the counties' waste-designation ordinance, all trash is delivered to the R&E Center for processing, backed by Minn. Stat. Ch. 115A.
Dumping garbage, litter, or waste on public or private land in Ramsey County (Minnesota) is illegal statewide. Minn. Stat. §609.68 makes unlawful deposit of litter a petty misdemeanor, and §115A.99 adds a civil penalty of two-to-five times the government's cleanup cost.
Minn. Stat. §609.68
Whoever unlawfully deposits garbage, rubbish, cigarette filters, debris from fireworks, offal, or the body of a dead animal, or other litter in or upon any public highway, public waters or the ice thereon, shoreland areas adjacent to rivers or streams as defined by section 103F.205, public lands, or, without the consent of the owner, private lands or water or ice thereon, is guilty of a petty m...
1 cities in Ramsey County have their own trash & recycling rules. Each link goes to that city's dedicated page with code citations.
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