Waste Management's published Kennewick cart-placement rules require carts to be placed at the curb with the wheels and handle facing the house, the lid-arrow pointing at the street, and at least three feet of clearance from parked cars, mailboxes, utility poles, fences, low branches, and other carts so the automated truck arm can grab them. Carts must not block the sidewalk. Recycling and garbage carts should be set side-by-side with the required three-foot spacing rather than touching.
WM Northwest collects Kennewick residential garbage and recycling using automated side-loader trucks with a grabber arm, which means cart-placement geometry matters. WM's published Kennewick collection guidelines require: (1) wheels of the cart pointing back at the house and the handle facing the house, with the lid-arrow pointing toward the street, so the truck's grabber lifts and tips the cart in the correct direction; (2) at least three feet of horizontal clearance from any other object - parked cars, mailboxes, utility poles, signs, fences, basketball hoops, low tree branches, and from any other cart - so the grabber arm can swing in and lift without striking anything; (3) at least 12 feet of vertical clearance above the cart (no low branches or wires); (4) cart placement at the curb, not on the sidewalk where it would block pedestrian travel, and not in the street where it interferes with traffic; (5) two-cart households should place garbage and recycling side-by-side with the three-foot spacing between them so the arm can service each independently; (6) extra bundles or bags must be placed three feet away from the cart (not touching the cart) so they do not interfere with the lift. Set-out time is the night before through 5:00 a.m. (June-September) or 6:00 a.m. (October-May). Carts that block sidewalks or persistently obstruct traffic become addressable under KMC 9.48 nuisance authority.
If a cart is placed too close to an obstruction for the automated arm to service it, WM marks the cart as not-serviced and the customer is responsible for re-staging the cart for the next route day; an additional return-trip fee may apply if WM is dispatched specifically to re-collect. Carts left on the sidewalk obstructing pedestrian travel, or left at the curb beyond the day after collection, can be cited under KMC 9.48 nuisance authority with a 45-day Compliance Warning Letter timeline (or shorter where the city's right-of-way obstruction provisions apply). Carts placed in the travel lane creating a traffic hazard can be addressed by Kennewick Police under standard right-of-way obstruction rules.
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