The city has a goal to reduce the amount of waste going into the landfill by recycling as many items as possible.
(A) The city provides recycling collection to residents and small business owners every other week in a 95 gallon rollout cart.
(B) Recyclables can be co-mingled into the cart.
(C) All food, drink and other residues shall be rinsed from the recyclable items.
(D) Recycling items include the following:
(1) Empty aerosol cans (no paint cans);
(2) All plastics 1-7 (no styrofoam, bags, or wrap);
(3) Wide-mouth plastic containers and lids and rigid plastic containers and small hard plastic toys;
(4) Milk and juice cartons and boxes;
(5) Shredded paper (placed in clear plastic bags);
(6) Aluminum and metal food cans and lids;
(7) Cereal and food boxes and cardboard boxes flattened;
(8) Mixed paper, newspapers with inserts, and junk mail;
(9) Paperback books;
(10) Magazines and phonebooks; and
(11) Spiral paper cans (with plastic lids detached).
(E) Items that cannot be recycled include the following:
(1) Pizza boxes;
(2) Paint cans;
(3) Styrofoam; and
(4) Plastic bags.
(F) The city now provides electronic waste (e-waste) recycling that will be picked up curbside by appointment only. (ELECTRONIC WASTE includes computers, cell phones, radios, televisions, and the like.)
(G) All recyclables shall be placed in a container marked “recyclables”.
(H) Recyclables containers shall not be placed at the curb earlier than 5:00 p.m. the day before the scheduled collection date and shall be removed by midnight on the collection day.
(I) Civil penalty. Any person who places a recyclables container at curbside earlier than 5:00 p.m. the day before the scheduled collection date or who fails to remove the container from curbside by midnight on the day of collection may be issued a civil penalty in the amount of $25. Any person who fails to properly prepare or containerize recyclables for curbside collection may be issued a civil penalty in the amount of $25. Any customer who repeatedly fails to properly prepare their recyclables container by placing solid waste within the container will be subject to the removal of the recycling container by the solid waste contractor. Violators shall be assessed a civil penalty based on the documented number of noncompliance citations multiplied by the established fee in this section, not to exceed $500.
(Ord. O-1999-86, passed 12-7-99; Am. Ord. O-2001-44, passed 11-6-01; Am. Ord O-2002-59, passed 11-5-02; Am. Ord. O-2005- 13, passed 4-5-05; Am. Ord. O- 2007-20, passed 8-21-07; Am. Ord. O-2012-23, passed 10-2-12; Am. Ord. O-2015-08, passed 6-2-15; Am. Ord. O-2019-47, passed 10-1- 19; Am. Ord. O-2019-48, passed 11-12-19)