Knowledge Base

Complaints are handled by Olmsted County Environmental Resources, to file a report utilize the:

Collection Service Incident Report

For more information on services and drop off locations, visit:

Olmsted County Garbage & Recycling

To access the City of Rochester Ordinances on Solid Waste Collection and Disposal, visit:  

CHAPTER 12-10. - SOLID WASTE COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL

Allowed hours of operation: 

• Sec. 12-10-13. - Schedule and hours of collection.

  (a)

  Refuse shall be collected from residential and commercial properties at least once weekly. Except as hereinafter provided, all such collection shall be made between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. Collections shall not be made on Sundays or on New Year's Day, Memorial Day, the Fourth of July, Thanksgiving or Christmas.

  (b)

  In areas zoned and used for commercial and industrial purposes that have been approved by the city administrator, the hours set forth for collection shall be 4:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. The city administrator may rescind any approval issued pursuant to this subdivision for any reason.

  (c)

  The provisions of this section limiting hours and days of collection shall not apply to the collection, transport or disposal of refuse from a facility or group of facilities which generates medical waste and which owns or is under common ownership or control with a licensed waste disposal facility capable of disposing of medical waste.

  (Code 1965, § 141.23)