Iron County, UT Trash & Recycling: Recycling Rules (2026)

Iron County Code § 17.16.030's table of uses rates 'Recycling processing facility,' defined at § 17.20.010 as a facility where recyclable and organic materials are collected, stored and processed through baling, briquetting, compacting, flattening, crushing, mechanical sorting, shredding or cleaning, as 'C' (conditional use) only in the industrial (I) and I-A districts, and prohibited ('X') everywhere else in the county, including every residential and agricultural zone. A facility whose sole purpose is manufacturing an end product from recycled material, rather than processing the material itself, is classified as general industrial use instead, per the same definition.

A smaller 'Recycling collection center,' defined as a center for the acceptance and temporary storage of recyclable materials pending transfer to a processing facility, has broader but still conditional access: A-20 agriculture, commercial, light industrial, industrial and I-A. Section 17.20.010 caps a collection center at three collection containers of up to forty cubic yards total, bars it from occupying required parking spaces, requires the operator to remove stored material at least weekly, keep the site neat and in good repair, and limits automated can-recycling machines to two per site. Organic material accepted at a processing facility is limited to tree limbs, leaves and grass clippings only.