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Title 17 Refuse and Trash Disposal
Chapter 1 Solid Waste And Refuse Collection
Title 17 Refuse and Trash Disposal
Chapter 1 Solid Waste And Refuse Collection
Maryville
Title 17 : Refuse and Trash Disposal
Chapter 1 : Solid Waste And Refuse Collection
17-106 : Prohibited substances and practices.
- The following substances are hereby prohibited and shall not be deposited in containers serviced by the city garbage collection equipment:
- Flammable liquids, solids or gases, such as gasoline, benzene, alcohol or other similar substances.
- Any material that could be hazardous or injurious to city employees or which could cause damage to city equipment.
- Construction waste, as defined in § 17-101.
- Hot materials such as ashes, cinders, etc.
- Human or animal waste shall be prohibited being placed in residential garbage containers unless it is placed and secured in a plastic bag or suitable paper bag.
- Infectious wastes as classified by the following:
- Isolation wastes. Wastes contaminated by patients who are isolated due to communicable disease as provided in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control Guidelines for Isolation Precautions: Preventing Transmission of Infectious Agents in Healthcare Settings (2007).
- Cultures and stocks of infectious agents. Cultures and stocks of infectious agents, and associated biological cultures and stocks of infectious agents, including specimen cultures from medical and pathological laboratories, cultures and stocks of infectious agents from research and industrial laboratories, waste from the production of biologicals, discarded live and attenuated vaccines, and culture dishes and devices used to transfer, inoculate, and mix cultures.
- Human blood and blood products. Waste, human blood and blood products such as serum, plasma, and other blood components.
- Pathological wastes. Pathological wastes, such as tissues, organs, body parts, and body fluids that are removed during surgery and autopsy.
- Discarded shams. All discarded sharps (e.g., hypodermic needles, syringes, pasteur pipettes, broken glass, scalpel blades) used in patient care, medical research or industrial laboratories. Discarded sharps from a single-family residential application shall be placed in puncture proof plastic resealable containers.
- Contaminated animal carcasses, body parts, and bedding. Contaminated animal carcasses, body parts and bedding of animals that were intentionally exposed to pathogens in research, in the production of biologicals or in the in vitro testing of pharmaceuticals.
- Facility-specified infection wastes. Other wastes determined to be infectious by a written facility policy.
- Human/animal remains shall be prohibited being placed in residential garbage containers.
- If the customer forces/wedges items in a dumpster not allowing items to empty properly, the items must be removed/loosened by the customer.
- The following practice is prohibited and it shall be unlawful for any person to move, remove, upset, scatter, tamper with, use, carry away, deface, mutilate, destroy, damage or interfere with the residential garbage container. (1999 Code, § 17-106, modified)
Date Last Updated: 12/22/2025
Codification Date: 06/01/2024
Officials at Date of Last Codification:
Mayor - Andy White
Vice-Mayor - Fred Metz
Council Member - Sarah Herron
Council Member - Tommy Hunt
Council Member - Drew Miles
City Manager - Greg McClain
Assistant City Manager - Kevin Stoltenberg
City Recorder/Financial Services Director - Sherri Phillips
City Attorney - Melanie Davis