(a) Ninety-six gallon waste containers and sixty-four gallon recycle containers have been provided by the City of Euclid through their contracted waste management vendor. Additional containers may be utilized by a resident if their supplied container is at capacity. Additional waste containers may be of metal or plastic and shall not exceed thirty-two gallons capacity nor sixty-five pounds filled. They must be equipped with two lifetime handles on the side and shall have a tightly fitting lid. Tightly secured, airtight, leakproof approved thirty-gallon solid waste plastic bags constructed of plastic not less than two mills in thickness, not exceeding sixty-five pounds filled, may also be used. Other approved solid waste design paper or plastic bags may be used only with the specific permission of the Service Director. All containers shall be maintained in a sound and sanitary condition.
(Ord. 123-1991. Passed 3-18-91; Ord. 11-2020. Passed 2-3-20.)
(b) The following types of waste containers are nonacceptable:
(1) Cardboard boxes or drums;
(2) Unapproved paper, canvas or burlap bags;
(3) Any container with a capacity of over thirty-two gallons or weighing more than sixty-five pounds when full or not equipped with two lifting handles on the side;
(4) Any container which has rough or sharp edges or other defects which render it dangerous to handle.
(c) The Service Director, or his or her designees, are given specific authority to remove nonacceptable waste containers with the rubbish. By their acceptance of the garbage and rubbish services herein described, the owners of waste containers relieve the City of responsibility for damage or breakage of any waste container. The Service Director shall exercise this authority after affixing to the noncomplying container a notice that it will be removed in the next collection of waste material following the attaching of the written or printed notice, which notice shall be affixed at least one week prior to the removal of the noncomplying waste container by the Service Director's designee.
(Ord. 117-2010. Passed 9-7-10.)