Sanitation, Recycling, & Landfill

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Garbage removal is provided by Waste Management for the City of Rolla. Residencial Pickup is every Monday (Tuesday, Starting April 1st, 2025) and Commercial Pickup is Monday & Thursday. Please have totes out by 6:00 am.

Changes in service due to holidays will be posted on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/RollaNDCityHall/

The City of Rolla will collect materials at the Recycling Center on the south side of the city. The following lists how to separate materials.

ITEMS THAT SHOULD BE PLACED IN YOURGARBAGE. We will

not accept them because we will have to sort them out again and put them in the city garbage.

1.Plastic material including plastic bags

2. Tyvek Envelopes

3. Styrofoam 

4. Milk Cartons 

5. Waxed boxes 

6. Boxes with grease or paint.

ACCEPTABLE CARDBOARD – must be empty, no Styrofoam, or packing materials

All cardboard except items 4, 5 and 6 above.

Pop and beer and cereal and Kleenex type boxes are acceptable Kraft paper bags

NEWSPAPER- NEWSPRINT

Newspaper including the flyers that come with it except nothing  wrapped in plastic. 

Newsprint- you can identify this because it is porous and looks like newspaper. Paperback books are OK. Place them in the book box.

Magazines

Magazines and similar type glossy paper

Annual Business reports with glossy paper

White Paper

Office type white writing paper, (whole or shredded)

Cash register receipts, white or yellow

White-school notebook type paper

Computer paper including light green ruled

Junk Mail

General material received from the post office except plastic covers must be removed

Manila file folders 

Post card stock

White envelopes with/without windows and the contents of the envelopes.

White or colored paper Slick paper and brochures

Hard cover books if the covers are removed

Aluminum Cans – No plastic bottles or containers

Hours: Open 24 hours a day with access code on your monthly utility bill to open the overhead door to access the building.

For more information please call the city auditor's office at 477-361 0

PUBLIC NOTICE

Beginning November 30, 2024 Rolla City Recycling Center will only accept Cardboard,

Newspapers, magazines, and aluminum cans.   Rolloff dumpsters will no longer be used, instead residents can

utilize the City Landfill located 1 1/2 miles south of Rolla on Hwy 30, to dispose of items listed below.  

ROLLA CITY LANDFILL

Winter months by appointment only

Call Rolla City Hall at 477-3610 for an appointment for the landfill disposal

FEES AND RATES

 CASH, CHECK OR CREDIT/DEBIT CARD

Minimum Fee - $15                    Single Axle - $50

Pickup Load - $25                   Tandem Axle - $100 

Leaves and Grass clippings - No charge for city residents

Non-residents of the City of Rolla shall pay double the rates above

No White Goods - Stoves, Freezers, Refrigerators, Etc.

Shingles are accepted at double the above rates.

Inert/Landfill Materials Accepted

Grass Clippings, Leaves, Tree Branches, Wood without nails

Asphalt Shingles, Furniture, Mattresses, Plastics, Foam, Sheetrock

Insulation, Etc.

THE FOLLOWING ARE NOT ACCEPTED AT THE LANDFILL

1. Infectious, Hazardous or Household Waste

2. Pesticide Containers

3. Waste Oil & Filters  

4. Batteries

5. Paint Residue & Paint Cans

6. Slaugherhouse Waste

7. Raw Sewer Sludge

8. Animal Manure

        9. Septic System Pumping

       10. Any waste that the Dept of Env Quality has advised being toxic or having adverse environmental characteristics

       11. Liquids

       12. Ash from Incinerators of Resource Recovery Facilities

       13. Foundry Waste

       14. Asbestos

       15. Oil Field Drilling Mud and related wastes

       16. Petroleum Contaminated Soil, except that generated by the city

If you do not conform to these regulations, you are subject to a $100 fine.

If you have any questions, please call Public Works Department at 701-477-3610

Unauthorized Dumping $250 Fine