Eagle Mountain, UT Trash & Recycling: Pickup Rules & Schedules (2026)
Key Facts
- Earliest set-out
- evening before scheduled collection day
- Latest set-out
- 7:00 a.m. on collection day
- Container removal
- same day container is emptied
- Loose waste
- prohibited; must be contained, baled or tied
- Governing sections
- EMMC 8.05.430 and 8.05.440
Summary
Eagle Mountain residents may not set trash containers at the curb before the evening before collection day, and containers must go out by 7:00 a.m. on pickup day under EMMC 8.05.430. Empty containers must come off the street the same day they're emptied, and loose, uncontained waste for curbside pickup is banned under EMMC 8.05.440.
The city may designate the time and place of solid waste collected and hauled by the city. Containers of solid waste shall not be set out upon the street prior to the evening of the day before scheduled collection and shall be set out before 7:00 a.m. on the scheduled collection day. All empty containers shall be removed from the street the same day they were emptied. ... No person shall place or cause to be placed upon any street or alley for collection any loose paper, yard trimmings, or other solid waste. All such waste shall be properly contained, baled or securely tied before collection is made.
Official source re-checked September 8, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: current through Ordinance O-34-2026, passed August 4, 2026).
Full Breakdown
430 controls exactly when a solid waste container may sit at the curb in Eagle Mountain. on collection day itself. 430 requires it to be pulled back off the street that same day, so containers cannot sit at the curb between collections. 440 backs up the placement rule by banning loose waste altogether: no person may place loose paper, yard trimmings, or other solid waste directly on a street or alley for collection. Everything set out for pickup must be properly contained, baled, or securely tied first. 430 effectively governs when those carts can be at the curb. 230(B). 630.
Violations & Fines
Setting a container out before the evening before collection, leaving an empty container at the curb past collection day, or placing loose, untied waste directly on the street or alley violates EMMC 8.05.430 and 8.05.440. As with other solid waste violations, the city issues written notice under EMMC 8.05.560, and an uncorrected violation is a Class B misdemeanor under EMMC 8.05.630, with fines set by the consolidated fee schedule.
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