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.
Other ordinances people look up for this city. Green dot = verified primary-source excerpt.
Kent County, MI
Kent County has no ordinance using the word 'hoarding,' but its adequate-care, sanitary-condition, and cruelty provisions let Animal Control seize animals ke...
Kent County, MI
Kent County's Animal Control Ordinance does not address feeding wild animals. Deer and elk baiting and feeding are regulated statewide by the Michigan DNR, w...
Kent County, MI
Kent County requires licensing and leashing only for dogs, not cats. Cats are still covered by the ordinance's adequate-care and cruelty provisions, and by M...
Kent County, MI
Kent County sets no general household pet cap, but any establishment keeping three or more dogs for sale, boarding, breeding, or training for pay is a 'kenne...
Kentwood, MI
Kentwood allows keeping of domestic animals, fowl or insects (including ducks, chickens, bees, goats and rabbits) only after Zoning Administrator review and ...
Kent County, MI
Backyard composting is allowed and encouraged in Kent County. Michigan law bans yard clippings from landfills, and the Kent County Department of Public Works...
Side-by-side rule comparisons with other cities in Kent County.
See how Kentwood's bin placement rules rules stack up against other locations.
Help us keep this page accurate. If you notice an error or outdated information, let us know.