Household Trash

Trash must be placed for pickup in a rubber or metal container with a top.  Trash must not be placed for pickup the next day before 6:30 pm of the preceding evening.  Under D.C. law, trash may not simply be left in trash bags on the sidewalk. Because many of the condominium complexes in Fort Lincoln were designed without individual or central locations to store trash between pickups, the city has been turning a blind eye to the widespread practice of leaving trash in plastic bags on the sidewalk for pick-up.  However, that practice attracts rodents and birds and the city cannot be expected to overlook noncompliance with its laws indefinitely.