Sioux Falls, SD Trash & Recycling: Pickup Rules & Schedules (2026)
Key Facts
- Garbage collection
- At least once a week
- Recycling collection
- At least twice a month
- Curb out earliest
- Noon, day before collection
- Bins removed by
- 11 p.m. collection day
- Max fine
- $500 or 30 days jail
Summary
Sioux Falls requires licensed weekly garbage and twice-monthly recycling pickup, and bars residents from setting bins at the curb before noon the day prior or leaving them out past 11 p.m. on collection day.
No owner, occupant, or manager shall place or permit to be placed any container away from the structure for collection before noon of the day preceding their scheduled collection day. No container may be left at the place of collection away from the structure after 11 p.m. on the day of collection or more than two hours after the actual collection, whichever is later.
(d) Absent agreement with the commercial garbage hauler, it is the owner, occupant, or manager's responsibility to move or cause to be moved all containers to and from the place designated for collection. (Ord. 147-21, passed 11-16-2021)
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: 2026 S-135: Current through local ordinance 54-26, passed 7-14-2026).
Full Breakdown
City Code § 57.020 requires every dwelling and occupied building to have licensed commercial garbage service that collects trash at least once a week and required recyclables at least twice a month. Containers must be placed at the curb, not in the roadway or on the sidewalk. Under § 57.023(c), residents cannot drag bins out before noon the day before their scheduled collection day, and containers must come back in by 11 p.m. on collection day or within two hours of actual pickup, whichever is later.
Violations & Fines
Early or late-set containers, missing required weekly garbage or twice-monthly recycling service, and other violations of this chapter fall under the city's general penalty: up to a $500 fine or 30 days in jail, with each day a separate offense (§ 10.999).
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