Carver County, MN Trash & Recycling: Bulk Item Disposal (2026)

074 of the Carver County Code of Ordinances, part of the Chapter 50 solid waste licensing program, governs major appliances as a special waste category. 074(B), "a person may not place major appliances in mixed municipal waste or dispose of them in a MMSW processing or disposal facility," meaning bulky appliances have to be handled separately from a regular curbside trash pickup or hauled to a facility set up to take them. Subsection (C) requires anyone processing scrap refrigerators, central air conditioning units and freezers to remove and recycle, destroy or properly dispose of the chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in them, covering both processors of scrap units and servicers of in-use units.

Subsection (D) treats a person who removes, stores or transports capacitors from these appliances as a PCB generator, which triggers a requirement to obtain an EPA hazardous waste generator identification number. Subsection (E) restricts who can process major appliances at all: only a salvage yard operator licensed under Chapter 151 of the county code, or a major appliance retailer or wholesaler. 074(F)(2): a residential parcel that is not running an appliance-processing business can stockpile no more than five major appliances at a time, and that stockpile cannot be visible from the nearest roadway or create a public health or nuisance problem. 074(F)(1), also screened from the roadway.