Kent County sets no rules for where to place trash or recycling carts at the curb. Set-out times, container placement, and how long bins may stay out are set by your private hauler and your city or township ordinance, since the county provides no collection.
Because Kent County does not collect residential trash or recycling, it issues no cart-placement or curb set-out rules. Those requirements come from your private licensed hauler (which side of the driveway, distance from obstacles, cart facing) and from your city or township property-maintenance ordinance, which often limits how early carts may be set out and how soon they must be brought back in. The only container guidance the county publishes concerns recyclable material prep at its Recycling & Education Center: it advises that all recyclables be "empty, clean, and loose - free of food, liquids, and residue; not bagged or bundled." For curbside placement rules, consult your hauler and municipal code.
Cart set-out timing violations are enforced under municipal property-maintenance codes; contamination or bagged recyclables may cause a hauler to reject the load, but the county issues no placement citations.
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