Bowling Green, KY Trash & Recycling: Bin Placement Rules (2026)

Sec. 20-1.04(c) of the Bowling Green Code of Ordinances makes it unlawful to place residential solid waste containers in the paved portion of any street, right-of-way, or upon any sidewalk, and separately unlawful to block access to solid waste containers, whether by parking a vehicle in front of a cart, stacking yard debris against it or otherwise obstructing the collection crew's reach. The provision sits inside Sec. 20-1.04, Specific Rules and Regulations, the same section that bans maintaining a dump ground (Sec. 20-1.04(a)) and disposing of waste outside a permitted landfill (Sec.

20-1.04(b)), and it works alongside Sec. 20-1.03, which requires residential yard waste and brush to be cut to no more than five feet long and six inches in diameter, bundled, and placed at the curb according to Warren County's collection regulations. Collection itself runs through the county's designated residential and recycling franchisees under Sec. 20-1.02, not a City crew, so container placement violations are cited by Neighborhood and Community Services under the citation procedures of Chapter 2 rather than by the hauler. Sec. 20-1.05 supplies the penalty for the whole chapter: a fine not to exceed the maximum penalty authorized by law, with each day the container remains improperly placed or blocked counting as a new, separately chargeable offense.

Because the rule targets both the paved street and any obstruction of the container itself, a resident can be cited either for where a cart sits on collection day or for anything left stacked against it that keeps the hauler from reaching it.