Carrollton, TX Trash & Recycling: Pickup Rules & Schedules (2026)
Key Facts
- Governing sections
- §§ 50.16, 50.17
- Refuse must stay
- Inside approved containers
- Using another's cart without permission
- Separate offense
- Approved container defined
- § 50.01
- Max fine
- $2,000 per offense
- Adopted
- Ordinance 4272, 8/19/2025
Summary
Carrollton residents can't just pile trash in the yard: § 50.16 bars letting refuse accumulate on a property outside an approved container, and § 50.17 makes it a separate offense to dump refuse into a neighbor's cart without permission. Both rules sit in chapter 50's residential collection subchapter, adopted under Ordinance 4272 on August 19, 2025, and back up the container and placement requirements the rest of the chapter sets.
§ 50.16. Accumulation of refuse. No owner, lessee, or occupant of any residence shall permit the accumulation of any refuse on his premises, except in approved containers. ... § 50.17. Placing refuse in another's container. A person commits an offense if he places refuse in any approved container which he neither is assigned, owns nor leases, when he does not have the permission of the owner or lessee of said container.
Full Breakdown
01 means a city-issued residential or recycling cart, a commercial dumpster, or bags approved for yard waste. That closes the gap a resident might otherwise use by simply stacking bags of trash in a yard or driveway between pickups rather than containing them. 19 or to get rid of overflow after their own cart is full. 29's ban on damaging a cart, to form the operative set of curbside pickup obligations: contain your refuse, use only your own assigned container, and set it out within the approved location and window.
012, but that state law governs disposing of waste at unapproved dump sites, a different topic covered on this site under illegal dumping, not the container and placement rules that actually govern routine curbside pickup in Carrollton.
Violations & Fines
Letting refuse accumulate outside an approved container under § 50.16, or dumping trash into a container a resident does not own, lease or have permission to use under § 50.17, is a misdemeanor under chapter 50's general penalty, § 50.99, punishable up to $2,000.00 per offense under § 10.99(A)(2) because chapter 50 is a public-health and sanitation chapter, with each day the accumulation continues counted as a separate offense.
Frequently Asked Questions
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