Baltimore County's Bureau of Solid Waste Management provides once-a-week trash and once-a-week single-stream recycling collection to all single-family homes and town homes, using private collectors authorized and supervised by the County. Some areas get a second weekly trash collection.
Under the County's Residential Trash and Recycling Collection regulation (adopted under Bill 88-90; authority in County Code Sections 13-4-203 and 13-4-213), private collectors authorized and supervised by Baltimore County Government provide once-a-week trash and once-a-week recycling collection to all single-family homes and town homes on County and State roads and County-designated alleys; some specified areas receive a second weekly trash collection. Recycling of mixed paper, cardboard, plastic, metal, and glass is collected concurrently each week ('single stream'). The County does not collect from commercial or industrial establishments. Six collection holidays (New Year's, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas) push the rest of that week's collection forward one day on a 'slide' schedule.
Section 13-4-204 prohibits unpermitted collection of trash or recyclables from County homes (with limited exceptions), and Section 17-1-112 prohibits scavenging recyclables set out for an authorized County collector. Non-conforming set-outs may not be collected.
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