A. Voluntary Service: Residential recycling is a voluntary service available to all residential customers. Customers who choose to participate in the recycling program shall be provided with a blue wheeled recycling cart.
B. Accepted Materials: Recyclable materials, excluding glass, can be commingled into the blue recycling cart or commercial recycling container. A list of acceptable materials is available upon request to the Public Works Department. Those items defined as recyclable materials for collection may be modified as needed in the discretion of the Public Works Department..
C. Excluded Materials: All other materials are excluded from the commingled residential recycling cart or commercial recycling containers. Specific examples include plastic bags, film and wraps, glass, extruded polystyrene (often called Styrofoam), yard wastes, pesticide containers, metal pipes, hazardous wastes, ammunition, plastic containers larger than two (2) gallons, and all other trash. No plastic bags shall be used to contain recyclable materials. These items defined as excluded materials may be modified as needed.
D. Special Recyclable Material:
1. Used motor oil shall be placed in a leakproof, transparent or translucent, sturdy plastic container with a screw on lid, and placed near, but not in, the compost, recycling or trash carts. No other fluids may be included. Containers must be one-gallon size and there is a limit of two (2) gallons of used motor oil per week set out for collection. Containers will not be returned to the customer.
2. Corrugated cardboard must be flattened and cut to fit inside the wheeled recycling cart so that it can fall freely from the cart when emptied. The customer must contact the franchise hauler for special collection of large quantities or oversized cardboard.
3. Glass is prohibited in the blue commingled recycling carts. Glass shall be placed in designated glass collection carts as part of the subscription glass collection program, delivered to designated glass collection sites, or placed in regular trash carts. The glass collection program is limited to glass bottles and jars.
E. Contaminated Recycling: Containers used for recyclable materials or glass collection shall not contain trash or materials which are not allowed in the recycling or glass collection programs. Services may be terminated to any customer who violates this provision. Contaminated recycling or glass containers will be emptied as trash and the customer may be charged for extra trash collection services.
F. Extra Materials: Occasional extra recyclable materials that do not fit within the cart must be placed into a rigid container, such as a cardboard box or a twenty (20) to thirty-two (32) gallon customer-owned can labeled for recycling, from which the contents can be easily emptied into the wheeled recycling cart.
(Ord. 21-17, 5-23-2017; amd. Ord. 10-21, 4-13-2021; Ord. 50-22, 11-1-2022)