(A) Each licensed hauler shall collect residential waste at least once each week and recyclable material placed for collection by the licensee’s customers at least once every other week.
(1) Recyclable materials may include, but not be limited to, corrugated cardboard, boxboard, beverage carrier stock, magazines, catalogs, newspaper and inserts, telephone directories, paperback books, residential mixed paper, tin and bi-metal food and beverage cans, empty aerosol cans, aluminum food and beverage cans, foil and trays, food and beverage mixed glass containers, plastics labeled #1 through #7, non-styrofoam.
(2) Recycling services shall be provided at no additional cost. Recycling services shall not be separately priced nor shall recyclable materials be counted towards the per container cost of services.
(B) If a customer chooses to separate recyclable material from the customer’s residential waste and places the recyclable material in approved containers, as provided for above, each licensed hauler shall collect the recyclable material and shall not mix recyclable material with other residential waste. However, no licensed hauler shall be required to pick up recyclable material, unless the recyclable material is accompanied by at least one bag of residential waste, or deposited in a recycling tote provided by a licensed hauler for pick up on a date designated by the hauler.
(C) Any residential waste that would fit in an approved container, as described in § 53.03, that is not placed in such an approved container shall not be collected by the licensed hauler, except as provided in any written agreement between the city and the city hauling service.
(D) Nothing contained in this chapter is intended to restrict customers and licensed haulers from increasing the level of services provided by the hauler, including but not limited to more frequent collections, back door collections, special collections of bulky items or landscape waste and the like.
(Ord. 382, passed 2-19-68; Am. Ord. 997, passed 1-15-18) Penalty, see § 53.99