Westfield, IN Trash & Recycling: Pickup Rules & Schedules (2026)

Sec. 62-151 lets the director of public works create a Division of Solid Waste and appoint a supervisor, and gives that division exclusive authority to collect and dispose of all garbage and rubbish within the City of Westfield, Indiana. Sec. 62-152 draws a line between the two: "garbage" covers rejected food waste and animal, fruit, or vegetable matter tied to preparing, cooking, or storing food, while "rubbish" covers ashes, cans, metalware, broken glass, crockery, dirt, sweepings, boxes, wood, grass, weeds, and litter of any kind.

Sec. 62-153 authorizes the division, subject to city council approval, to prescribe and promulgate the actual regulations governing storage, collection, and disposal methods, which means the specific pickup days, container rules, and set-out times residents follow live in those council-approved regulations rather than in the printed code. Sec. 62-154 puts a superintendent of garbage and rubbish collection in charge of day-to-day operations and administering the division's regulations, with the director of public works stepping into that role whenever no superintendent has been appointed. Sec. 62-155 lets the division and city council solicit and accept bids from a private contractor to run collection, and that contractor stays bound by the division's regulations on manner and method.

The same section reaches further: any other unlicensed private person, firm, or corporation in the rubbish-collection business is likewise subject to the division's regulations, so no hauler operating in Westfield sits outside this framework whether or not the city has a formal contract with it.