Douglas County, NE Trash & Recycling: Dumpster Rules (2026)

2. Loading docks, refuse or trash collection points or dumpsters, and other service areas.

3. Major machinery or areas housing a manufacturing process.

4. Major on-site traffic circulation areas or truck and/or trailer parking. 5. Sources of glare, noise, or other environmental effects. Page 12 of 18

6. Bailing or stockpiling of cardboard or other shipping or packaging materials.

B. Screen Design. A screen of at least six feet in height, including walls, fences, berming, or landscaping shall be provided that prevents direct visibility of the conditions listed in this Article from less intensive uses or public streets. The screen may include the following:

1. A wood, brick, stone, concrete masonry, PVC, stucco, concrete fence or wall with a minimum opacity of 75%.

2. A vegetative screen, using evergreen or deciduous materials, capable of providing a substantially opaque, hedge-like barrier and attaining a minimum height of six feet within four years of planting.

3. An alternative vegetative screen that provides two over story deciduous trees and four evergreen trees per 100 linear feet of property line.

4. A landscaped earth berm with a maximum slope of three to one that, if used alone, rises to no less than six feet above the existing grade of the lot line separating the zoning districts.

5. Any combination of these methods.

C. Screening shall not adversely affect surface water drainage.