Eagan, MN Trash & Recycling: Mandatory Organics Recycling (2026)

Eagan City Code § 10.01, Subd. 7 folds Dakota County Solid Waste Management Ordinance No. 110, adopted by the Dakota County Board of Commissioners on November 26, 2019, directly into the city code. The subdivision borrows the county ordinance's own definitions of generator, multi-unit residential building, large event venue with organics, and designated list of organics, so the compliance duties track the county rule exactly. Multi-unit residential building owners who manage waste through a common contract must provide recycling service to every resident, size recycling containers at a minimum of 0.1 cubic yards of weekly capacity per dwelling unit, and keep collection schedules and container capacity large enough to prevent overflow.

Property owners, managers, and event sponsors of large event venues with organics have carried the recyclables-collection duty since January 1, 2021: designated recyclables must be collected, trash and recycling containers or chutes must sit within ten feet of one another with equal access, and organics must go to food recovery, a composting facility, or an anaerobic digester rather than the trash stream. Every container or chute needs Dakota County's color-coded labeling, blue for recycling, green for organics, and gray or black for trash, showing accepted materials in words and images.

Damaged or illegible signage must be replaced promptly. Covered properties must also distribute the county's solid waste abatement messaging to employees, tenants, residents, students, and contractors at least annually, within 30 days of a substantive program change, and within 30 days of any new hire or new tenant.