Marion, OH Trash & Recycling: Pickup Rules & Schedules (2026)

Chapter 943 spreads the day-to-day pickup rules across §§ 943.07, 943.08, 943.10 and 943.11. Section 943.07(A) bars anyone using the city's service from permitting the use of his or her domestic refuse or rubbish containers by any other person, and § 943.07(B) bars use of the collector's services without paying the lawful charges. Charges themselves are set under § 943.14 as directed by the rules adopted by the City Safety/Service Director.

Section 943.08(A) prohibits keeping, placing or depositing domestic refuse on any grounds or premises except in the manner designated in § 943.06, which requires all refuse to go into containers. Subsection (B) bans throwing or depositing domestic refuse, rubbish or waste material in any street, way, lane, river, stream, ditch or other public place, or upon any vacant lot, or where rats, mice, dogs, cats, birds, fowl or other living things can feed on it. Subsection (C) says no person other than the collector can remove domestic refuse from the premises of a resident or commercial establishment.

Section 943.11 backs that up. Once refuse, rubbish, recyclables or waste material is collected or in the process of being collected, it is no longer the property of the resident, and no one can separate, collect, carry off or dispose of it without the Safety/Service Director's authority. Section 943.10 requires everything to be conveyed to the areas' designated solid waste handling and disposal facilities and bars burying or dumping it in the municipality. The code cross-references § 660.03 for littering and deposit of garbage and waste material, and § 660.04 for noxious accumulations.