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

Section 835.032 is a collector mandate. Every licensed collector providing trash collection service in the City of Minnetonka must give its residential dwelling customers the option of source-separated organic material collection. Each collector must also provide a waste container to residents who participate, or provide service through an approved co-collection method that collects organics within a waste container for waste collection. A resident chooses whether to sign up.

To keep the city informed, each licensed collector must file a report with the city at the initial license application and with each renewal, on a form from the community development licensing division. The report must describe the collector's process for collecting organic materials, its communications plan for telling residents that curbside organics collection is available (including the method and frequency of communications), instructions for signing up, a curbside collection schedule or calendar, instructions for preparing organics for collection, the number of participants and tonnage collected in the preceding license period, the organic materials management facility receiving the material, and contact information for a licensee representative.

Once organics are in play, other sections apply. Section 835.010 requires disposal of organic materials from residential dwellings each week, and trash containing organics each week. Section 835.015 requires source-separated organics and recyclables to be kept in separate containers, and § 835.040 bars organics collection from residential units or areas within 400 feet of them after 10:00 p.m. or before 6:00 a.m. Monday through Saturday, or at any time Sunday.

Under § 835.033 the city can contract with a licensed hauler for organics, and the City Council sets the charges, billed every three months.