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 Port Angeles
 Code of Ordinances
 Title 13. PUBLIC UTILITIES
 Chapter 13.54. GARBAGE COLLECTION

  § 13.54.150. Recycling, yard waste, and cardboard recycling requirements.  

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  • A.

    Single dwellings and multiple dwellings up to four units may receive the residential recycling service and residential yard waste service. Commercial buildings and industrial facilities receiving solid waste collection services in accordance with sections 13.54.090 through 13.54.120 PAMC may receive the commercial cardboard recycling service at no additional charge. The rate per person for semi-weekly collection of a cardboard recycling container for a commercial building or industrial facility that does not receive solid waste collection service shall be $15.84 per month. The Port Angeles School District, and other commercial buildings when approved by the Director, may participate in the commercial recycling service for their facilities located within the City limits of Port Angeles.

    B.

    Persons participating in the residential recycling service shall deposit all recyclable materials into contractor-provided recycling containers in lieu of depositing recyclable materials into City-provided refuse containers. Green, brown and clear recyclable glass bottles and jars shall not be deposited into a recycling container and may be deposited into a recycling drop-off facility as provided for in Chapter 13.57 PAMC. Persons participating in the commercial cardboard recycling service shall deposit all old corrugated cardboard into contractor-provided cardboard recycling containers in lieu of depositing old corrugated cardboard into City-provided refuse containers.

    C.

    Recycling containers shall be placed at the location and time designated by the City for collection and shall be removed from that location within 24 hours after their collection.

    D.

    All recyclable materials deposited into a contractor-provided recycling container or cardboard recycling container are the property of the contractor. No unauthorized person shall scavenge, separate, collect, carry off, or dispose of, such materials unless authorized to do so by written permit of the Director. Beginning July 1, 2006, recyclable materials placed outside the recycling container shall not be collected.

    E.

    Yard waste containers shall be placed at the location and time designated by the City for collection and shall be removed from that location within 24 hours after their collection. The yard waste service excludes the collection of food waste, metals, plastics, and synthetic fibers, construction and demolition debris, stumps, rocks, concrete, sod, dirt, and any wood, trees or tree limbs over four inches in diameter and/or exceeding four feet in length. Plastic bags shall not be used or deposited into yard waste containers. Beginning July 1, 2006, excluding trees from the December holidays placed outside the yard waste container during the month of January, yard waste placed outside the yard waste container shall not be collected.

    F.

    A person that has been advised by the City on two or more occasions of the presence of wastes within a recycling container that are not recyclable materials will have the curbside recycling service terminated and the contractor may retrieve the recycling container.

    G.

    A person that has been advised by the City on two or more occasions of the presence of wastes within a yard waste container that are not yard waste will have the yard waste service terminated and the contractor may retrieve the yard waste container.

    H.

    A person will have the curbside recycling service terminated and the contractor may retrieve the recycling container after the Director has notified a person by regular mail that they have not set out a recycling container for two or more consecutive months during a six month period, and a recycling container is not set out by a person for pick up for two or more consecutive months during the subsequent six month period.

    I.

    A person that has been advised by the City on two or more occasions of the presence of wastes within a cardboard recycling container that are not old corrugated cardboard will have the curbside cardboard recycling service terminated and the contractor may retrieve the cardboard recycling container.

(Ord. 3489, § 3, 11/5/2013; Ord. 3302, 1/1/2008; Ord. 3243 § 2, 4/28/2006)