St. Johns County, FL Trash & Recycling: Bin Placement Rules (2026)

(4), the Solid Waste subsection of the county's Short Term Vacation Rental standards, sets container and timing rules that apply on top of whatever service the resident's waste hauler already provides. (2) needs at least three containers on site. The curbside window is specific: containers can go out to the curb no earlier than sunset on the day before the scheduled pickup, and they have to come back off the curb no later than sunrise the following day. That narrows the county's general nuisance concern about carts sitting at the curb for days, particularly on streets where a vacation rental turns over guests weekly and nobody local is watching the property between pickups.

19; the county's general residential solid-waste collection program for permanent, non-rental households is set out in the separate Code of Ordinances, not in this Land Development Code. A property owner's rental agreement and onsite postings are the mechanism the county relies on to make guests aware of these container and timing rules, since transient occupants, not the owner, are usually the ones putting containers out.