Edmonds, WA Trash & Recycling: Bin Placement Rules (2026)
Key Facts
- Citation
- ECC 7.80.030(D); 7.80.110(A)
- Nonmultifamily
- Container provided by hauler
- New multifamily
- Must provide container facilities
- Existing multifamily
- Must retrofit for recycling collection
- Appeal route
- Type II decision, Chapter 20.01 ECDC
Summary
Edmonds City Code Section 7.80.030(D) requires nonmultifamily homes to be given a recycling container for curbside materials. Section 7.80.110(A) separately requires all new multifamily buildings to provide container facilities, centralized or individual, for recyclables collection.
D. A recycling container to hold the materials designated for collection shall be made available to each nonmultifamily residence. Other customer classes will work with the haulers to identify container options. Options should be made available to customers to provide their own containers with a commensurate reduction in rates. ... ... A. All new multifamily residences are required to provide facilities (containers and space for their deployment) for the collection of recyclables. Such facilities may include either centralized or individual containers. The city with its haulers shall develop prototype container or system configurations which meet the intent of this chapter. Any facilities required to promote recycling will be subject to the existing requirements in the Edmonds Community Development Code as far as zoning and design standards.
Official source re-checked September 8, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: current through Ordinance 4444, passed August 3, 2026).
Full Breakdown
030(D) requires haulers to make a recycling container available to hold the designated curbside materials, with customer options to use their own container in exchange for a reduced rate under the same subsection. 110(A) requires all new multifamily residences to provide facilities, meaning both containers and the physical space for their deployment, for collecting recyclables, and the city and its haulers are directed to develop prototype container or system configurations that meet the chapter's intent. Any such facility remains subject to the zoning and design standards in the Edmonds Community Development Code.
01 ECDC. If a required parking space is used for a recycling collection facility, that space still counts toward meeting the development code's parking requirements, so the recycling facility does not create a parking shortfall on paper.
Violations & Fines
The code does not set a standalone fine for a missing container; noncompliance surfaces through the annual hauler reporting duty in Section 7.80.060 and, for multifamily properties, through the staff review and Type II appeal process in Section 7.80.110(B) that can require retrofitting existing site plans to add collection facilities.
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