North Dakota trash pickup is run by cities, counties and private haulers, not by the state, and your pickup day comes from your city’s or hauler’s own lookup. Among the largest cities, Fargo, Bismarck and Grand Forks collect curbside themselves. North Dakota has no statewide bottle deposit, PaintCare paint or mattress program.
Find your city
The largest North Dakota cities and their official collection pages:
- Fargo: City of Fargo Solid Waste Department. The City provides all residential garbage collection inside Fargo city limits, with carts out by 8 a.m. on your collection day and removed by 6 p.m. the same day. Official page ↗ Look up your collection day ↗
- Bismarck: City of Bismarck Public Works Department, Solid Waste Division. Garbage is collected weekly, Monday through Thursday, must be set out by 6 a.m., and grass trimmings and yard waste must be bagged and placed in the garbage container. Official page ↗
- Grand Forks: City of Grand Forks Public Works, Sanitation Division. Containers go on the berm by 7:00 a.m. on your collection day, and grass clippings, yard waste, tree trimmings, rocks, construction material and tires are not allowed in the garbage container. Official page ↗
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Who collects in North Dakota
- NDDEQ lists municipal recycling programs only for Bismarck, Devils Lake, Fargo, Grand Forks, Jamestown and West Fargo, and says other options may exist locally. Source ↗
National haulers (Republic Services, WM, Waste Connections) hold contracts in many places; the city or county names the hauler for each street.
State-level rules
- Container deposit: No statewide container deposit law. NCSL’s state beverage container deposit laws page reports that only ten states and Guam have a deposit-refund system for beverage containers, and North Dakota is not one of them. Source ↗
- Paint: Not a PaintCare state. PaintCare’s own site names the states where paint stewardship laws have created its programs, and North Dakota is not among them. Leftover paint goes through the local household hazardous waste program; see paint. Source ↗
- Mattresses: No statewide mattress take-back program. The Mattress Recycling Council says its Bye Bye Mattress program runs only in California, Connecticut, Oregon and Rhode Island. See mattresses. Source ↗
State agency
- State agency: North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality, Division of Waste Management. It enforces the state’s solid and hazardous waste laws, permits land disposal facilities, and encourages waste reduction and recycling, linking residents to municipal recycling programs. Official website ↗
- Find your local program: Recycling opportunities by community ↗
- Contact: 701-328-5150
Flag of North Dakota. Public-domain artwork. Source. Resized to 480 pixels wide.
Materials with their own rules
Paint · Lithium-ion batteries · Household hazardous waste · Mattresses · Pizza boxes · Christmas trees
Neighboring states
Minnesota · Montana · South Dakota
Sources
Official pages used: deq.nd.gov · deq.nd.gov · fargond.gov · fargond.gov · bismarcknd.gov · grandforksgov.com · ncsl.org · paintcare.org · mattressrecyclingcouncil.org.
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