Blue Springs, MO Trash & Recycling: Illegal Dumping (2026)

Section 220.720 targets dumping of yard and household waste directly into the public right-of-way in the City of Blue Springs, Missouri. The list of banned materials is specific: refuse, dirt, rags, papers, dead grass, grass clippings, dead limbs, leaves, brush, logs, weeds, foliage, and shrub cuttings or clippings, thrown into a street, alley or the drainage ditches that run alongside City streets. The Section cross-references Section 245.160(A)(11) of the health and sanitation chapter, making the same conduct a nuisance violation as well as a street-obstruction offense, so the City can pursue either or both.

Because Section 220.720 states no fine of its own, a conviction is punished under the general penalty in Section 100.080: a fine of up to $500, imprisonment of up to ninety days, or both, and each day the dumped material remains counts as a separate offense. The ordinance sits within Article X, Miscellaneous Offenses, alongside the littering ban in Section 220.650 and the street-obstruction ban in Section 220.740, giving Public Works and the Blue Springs Police Department overlapping authority to order cleanup of ditches and rights-of-way clogged with yard debris after storms or landscaping work.