West Valley City, UT Trash & Recycling: Pickup Rules & Schedules (2026)
Key Facts
- Governing section
- City Code § 24-2-114(3)–(4)
- Minimum frequency
- Once per week
- Earliest set-out
- Evening before pickup
- Container removal
- Same day, once emptied
Summary
West Valley City requires weekly trash collection and limits when residents can put containers at the curb: no earlier than the evening before pickup, out by 7 a.m., and back inside the same day they're emptied.
(4) Placement of containers for collection. The Department may designate the time and place of solid waste collected and hauled by a governmental entity or a waste contractor. Containers of solid waste shall not be set out upon the street prior to the evening of the day before scheduled collection and shall be set out before 7 a.m. on the scheduled collection day. All empty containers shall be removed from the street the same day they are emptied.
Official source re-checked September 8, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: current through Ordinance 26-30, passed June 23, 2026).
Full Breakdown
City Code Section 24-2-114(3) requires solid waste to be removed from residential storage containers at least once a week. Section 24-2-114(4) governs placement: the Department sets the collection time and place, containers cannot be set out on the street before the evening of the day before scheduled collection, must be out by 7 a.m. on collection day, and all empty containers must be removed from the street the same day they are emptied. Bulky waste has its own rules under 24-2-114(6), including a 75-pound/five-foot size cap and a one-day-early set-out limit.
Violations & Fines
Violating the set-out timing or leaving empty containers at the curb is enforced under the City's solid waste and litter regulations in Chapter 24-2, typically as a code enforcement notice of violation.
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