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

04 puts the mechanics of pickup entirely in the hands of the Director of Public Service. 01, the Director divides the City into as many districts as deemed necessary for convenient collection and fixes a day or days each week on which each district's garbage and rubbish will be picked up by the City. That authority is administrative rather than legislative: Council does not set pickup days by ordinance, and the schedule can be redrawn by the Director as the City's routes or growth require, without a separate vote.

The same section lets the Director arrange collections more often than once a week whenever, in the Director's opinion and experience, such special collections are proper for maintaining health and sanitation, giving Medina flexibility to add pickups after storms, holidays or unusual volume without amending the code. Because collection is organized this way, the actual day-of-week schedule for any address is not printed in the code itself; it is set administratively by district and published by the Service Department. 02(h) restricting garbage collection within city limits to City employees.