Flint, MI Trash & Recycling: Pickup Rules & Schedules (2026)
Key Facts
- Authorized collectors only
- DPW staff or licensed haulers
- Scavenging curbside trash
- unlawful
- Time/method of collection
- set by DPW Director
- Applies to
- waste set out for City pickup
Summary
Only Department of Public Works and Utilities employees, licensed haulers and other City-authorized collectors may pick up trash the City of Flint has set out for collection: scavenging curbside receptacles or rubbish is unlawful for anyone else.
It shall be unlawful for any person other than employees of the Department of Public Works and Utilities, licensed garbage and refuse collectors or other authorized persons, to disturb, collect or in any other manner interfere with garbage and rubbish placed in the streets, alleys and public places for collection by the City authorities, or to interfere in any manner with any garbage and rubbish receptacles. The Director of Public Works and Utilities shall have the right to specify the time and method of storage, collection and disposal by any authorized collector.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: 2016 Code: Local legislation current through Ordinance 3821, passed 3-1-2012).
Full Breakdown
Once garbage and rubbish are placed in the streets, alleys or public places for City collection, no one except Public Works employees, licensed garbage and refuse collectors, or other City-authorized persons may disturb, collect or otherwise interfere with it, or with the receptacles themselves. The Director of Public Works and Utilities sets the time and method that authorized collectors must follow for storage, collection and disposal.
Violations & Fines
This section does not carry its own fine schedule; interference with City-designated waste collection is addressed through the City's general code-enforcement authority.
Frequently Asked Questions
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