Roanoke, VA Trash & Recycling: Pickup Rules & Schedules (2026)

1-1 as a city employee, temporary city worker, or a person or company designated or employed by the city to provide collection service, from handling solid waste set out for collection or the contents of any receptacle put out for removal by an authorized person. 1-20(b) separately bars anyone other than an authorized person from placing solid waste into a collection vehicle. 1-16, which require carts to sit at the curb with five feet of clearance and lids facing away from the street, the pickup framework treats a container set out for collection as committed to the city's collection system the moment it is placed: neighbors, itinerant scrap collectors, and even the generator's own household members cannot legally pick through it or add to a truck's load once an authorized person has taken it over.

1-5 funds pickup through mandatory parcel fees rather than per-item charges. 1-20 itself for charitable groups or private recyclers; anyone wanting to collect materials before city pickup must arrange it with the property owner or occupant before the waste is set out, not after.