Pima County, AZ Trash & Recycling: Bin Placement Rules (2026)

060, titled Containers, Hours for placement, sets the county's placement window in one sentence, quoted below in full. 050 instead, which puts refuse on the alley side of the lot and excuses a residential waste collector from entering a blind alley, an alley under fifteen feet wide, an L- or T-shaped alley too tight for a collection truck to turn safely, or any alley whose surface would endanger safe year-round operation of the trucks. 080 shifts the cleanup burden to the collector, not the resident: the collector must replace every container where it was found, and neither the container nor its lid may sit in the street or spill onto a neighbor's property.

010(L) as the territory outside any incorporated city or town; Tucson, Marana, Oro Valley, Sahuarita and South Tucson each run or contract their own collection service and set their own hours, so an address inside any of those cities is not covered by this county section even though it sits inside Pima County lines. 01, and separately defines garbage, rubbish, ashes and manure for purposes of the chapter.