Brooklyn Park, MN Trash & Recycling: Recycling Rules (2026)

31(A)(1) requires all persons who own, lease, or occupy any building, commercial or residential, within the City of Brooklyn Park that generates mixed municipal solid waste to separate recyclable materials and yard waste from the rest of the solid waste stream before disposal, removal, or collection. 30 defines an APPROVED CONTAINER as one authorized by the City Manager or a designee. The definitions section also pins down what counts: RECYCLABLES means paper, glass, plastics, metals, and source-separated compostable materials plus anything else the city later designates, while a HAULER is any collector or transporter of mixed municipal solid waste, recyclable materials, or yard waste.

09, backs the mandate by making it unlawful for anyone other than a law-enforcement officer on duty to collect garbage, recyclables, or yard waste at the curb without a hauler's license and an account relationship with the resident, and it specifies that ownership of set-out recyclables stays with the resident until a licensed hauler actually collects them. Together these sections make separation and proper containerization a legal duty of every household and business generator in the city, not an optional courtesy program, enforced through the Department's licensing and citation authority described later in the same subchapter.