Provo, UT Trash & Recycling: Bin Placement Rules (2026)
Key Facts
- Set-out window
- Day before pickup through 6:00 a.m. collection day
- Removal deadline
- Within 24 hours after collection
- Placement
- Edge of street, accessible to automated truck
- Container condition
- Owner must keep container clean and sanitary
- Blocking sidewalks/traffic
- Separately unlawful under Section 11.01.050(8)
Summary
Provo requires curbside containers to sit at the edge of the street for automated truck pickup, not blocking sidewalks or traffic. City Code 11.02.030(4)-(6) sets the window for putting carts out and bringing them in, and Section 11.01.050(8) makes it a separate unlawful act to place a container where it impedes pedestrian or vehicle movement.
(4) Except where the Director shall otherwise agree, collections shall be made from a street. Containers shall be placed at the edge of the street in a manner that will allow an automated collection truck to be driven to service the container. (5) Containers shall be placed in front of a residence for collection not earlier than the day before or no later than 6:00 am the day scheduled for collection and shall be removed therefrom within twenty-four (24) hours after collection. (6) The owner of a structure shall maintain containers serviced thereat in a clean and sanitary condition.
Official source re-checked September 8, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: current through Ordinance 2026-17, passed June 9, 2026).
Full Breakdown
on collection day, and has to come back in within a day of being emptied. 050, 'to place a refuse, recyclable or yard waste container on any sidewalk, roadway or alleyway or parking lot so as to impede pedestrian movement or vehicle traffic,' so a cart left blocking a sidewalk or driveway approach is its own violation independent of the timing rule. 020, and enforcement of both the placement and screening rules falls to the Public Works Department, which also administers the collection schedule and fee billing.
Violations & Fines
Violating the residential collection regulations in Section 11.02.030, including the placement and 24-hour removal windows, is a Class B misdemeanor. Leaving a container on a sidewalk, roadway, alleyway, or parking lot so it blocks pedestrians or vehicles is a separately chargeable unlawful act under Section 11.01.050(8), also a Class B misdemeanor. Section 7.01.020(15) additionally treats a can left in the street more than 24 hours after collection as a public nuisance.
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Sources & Official References
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