4 rules for unincorporated St. Johns County, Florida.
Verified from official government sources
St. Johns County contracts curbside collection, it does not run the trucks itself. Under Fla. Stat. §125.01(1)(k) the county provides and regulates solid-waste collection, and its franchised hauler FCC Environmental Services collects household garbage weekly across the unincorporated county.
Fla. Stat. §125.01(1)(k)1.
Provide and regulate waste and sewage collection and disposal, water and alternative water supplies, including, but not limited to, reclaimed water and water from aquifer storage and recovery and desalination systems, and conservation programs.
St. Johns County requires carts at the curb by 6:00 a.m. on your collection day, with garbage, recycling, and yard debris kept separate. Carts go out no earlier than the evening before and come back in the same day.
Bulky junk goes to the curb by arrangement or self-hauled to a St. Johns County transfer station, never dumped. Illegal dumping is prosecuted under Florida's Litter Law, Fla. Stat. §403.413, which scales from a $150 civil penalty to a felony by weight.
Fla. Stat. §403.413(6)(a)
Any person who dumps litter in violation of subsection (4) in an amount not exceeding 15 pounds in weight or 27 cubic feet in volume and not for commercial purposes commits a noncriminal infraction, punishable by a civil penalty of $150
Residential recycling in St. Johns County is offered, not mandatory. Fla. Stat. §403.706 puts the duty on the county to run recycling toward the state's 75 percent goal, and the county supplies a single-stream cart, but no ordinance fines a household for skipping it.
Fla. Stat. §403.706(1)
The governing body of a county has the responsibility and power to provide for the operation of solid waste disposal facilities to meet the needs of all incorporated and unincorporated areas of the county.
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