Auburn, WA Trash & Recycling: Bin Placement Rules (2026)

080, all single-family residential garbage must go in a service provider-supplied micro-can or wheeled cart, and customers must keep at least one rigid container as their primary receptacle; plastic bags or extra cans may only handle overflow and can draw an added service charge. Containers must be packed so their contents dump out rapidly when inverted, and every cart, micro-can, recycling cart or compostables cart must sit at its approved storage location required by ACC Title 18, Zoning, except on the actual day of scheduled pickup.

Multifamily and commercial customers use provider-supplied micro-cans, wheeled carts, detachable containers or drop-boxes under the same Title 18 location rule. 030 definitions for each container type, and no cart may be loaded past the point where its lid can be securely replaced. 100 then governs the actual set-out: customers must place carts curbside by the service provider's scheduled start time on collection day and return them to their storage spot within a reasonable time afterward. Once recyclables or compostables are set at the curb, ownership passes to the city's contracted hauler, and it is unlawful for anyone else to pick through or remove them, codifying Auburn's anti-scavenging rule. 080(B) and (C) to see that tenants are supplied with adequate cans and service.