5 rules for unincorporated Collier County, Florida.
Verified from official government sources
Solid-waste collection is mandatory in unincorporated Collier County: all household waste must go to the county's designated contractor for disposal at an approved facility. Curbside collection runs Monday through Saturday except holidays; a holiday shifts your pickup to the next regular collection day.
Collier County Code Sec. 118-104(B)
Collection service shall be provided by the Contractor on Monday through Saturday, except Holidays. Should a Holiday occur on the date designated as a Customer's collection day, the next collection for that Customer shall take place no later than the next regular collection day for the Customer.
Roll carts and other containers must be at the curb before 6:00 a.m. on your collection day but no earlier than 6:00 p.m. the night before, placed at least three feet from mailboxes or other obstacles. Carts must be removed from the curb by 6:00 a.m. the day after service.
Collier County Code Sec. 118-104(C)(6)
[Containers] shall be placed Curbside prior to 6:00 a.m. on the scheduled collection day. However, these containers and materials shall be placed at Curbside no earlier than 6:00 p.m. the day prior to the Customer's next regularly scheduled collection day. Such containers and materials shall be placed at least three (3) feet from mailboxes or other obstacles.
Collier County's contractor collects bulk waste, white goods (appliances) and electronics at the curb. Bulk items must not include vehicles, boats or liquid waste, and must be broken down into pieces under 50 pounds and four feet long. Call at least 48 hours ahead for white goods, electronics, tires or
Collier County Code Sec. 118-104(C)(14)
Such materials shall be placed at Curbside and shall not include vehicles, vehicle component parts, boats or boat trailers or their component parts, or liquid waste. Further, Bulk Waste shall be disassembled, if possible, into sections or pieces of less than fifty (50) pounds in weight and four (4) feet in length, prior to pick up by the Contractor.
Collier County recycles paper, cardboard, glass, plastics #1-7, aluminum and ferrous metal. Residential customers set recyclables out in a recycling roll cart at the curb. Non-residential and multi-family properties must provide recycling containers and recycle their primary recyclable materials.
Collier County Code Sec. 118-136
For the purposes of this Ordinance, recyclable materials means paper, cardboard, glass, plastic (Numbers. 1 through 7), aluminum, and ferrous metal.
It is unlawful to throw, drop or deposit litter of any amount on public or private property, streets, rights-of-way or water in unincorporated Collier County, except in designated enclosed containers. Illegal dumping of debris is a crime; landscapers and haulers must use authorized disposal facilities. Florida's litter law (FS 403.413)
Collier County Code Sec. 54-180
It shall be unlawful for any person to throw, discard, place, drop, or deposit litter in any manner or amount in or upon any public property, private property, highway, street, right-of-way or body of water within the unincorporated areas of Collier County, Florida, except in such areas and enclosed containers specifically provided and appropriately designated for the disposal of litter.
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