Salt Lake County, UT Trash & Recycling: Illegal Dumping (2026)

020. 110 defines the only lawful outlets: the Salt Lake City-County Landfill or a sanitary landfill previously approved by the board of health that covers over all materials received each day. 050, which makes it unlawful to dump refuse, building materials, machinery, furniture or junk on private land without the owner's consent, and even consented material must be covered or otherwise conditioned as soon as physically feasible if it becomes obnoxious, a nuisance, or a danger to health or safety. 190 imposes its own duties: garbage, ashes, market waste, trade waste, manure and other refuse not collected by Special Service District No.

1 must be hauled away by the owner or occupant, and it is unlawful to let it accumulate or to fail to remove it within twenty-four hours after the board of health gives notice. That same section separately bars leaving junk, scrap metal, scrap lumber, waste paper, discarded building materials, or abandoned vehicles and appliances sitting on a yard, garden, lawn, outbuilding or premises unless tied to a lawfully licensed business. 010 to cover combustible trash such as paper, boxes and yard trimmings, noncombustible trash such as metal, dirt and glass, and street rubbish such as sweepings and litter-receptacle contents, though it excludes earth from building operations and industrial or manufacturing waste.

Because the rule sits in the county's general code, it governs only the unincorporated area; residents of Salt Lake City, West Valley City, West Jordan, Sandy, Murray and the county's other incorporated cities are subject to that city's own dumping ordinance instead.