West Palm Beach Sanitation provides twice-weekly garbage collection and once-weekly recycling and yard waste pickup. Set out after 6 PM the night before or by 6 AM collection day.
City Code Chapter 70 governs solid waste. WPB Public Works Sanitation Division collects garbage twice weekly, recycling weekly (yellow lid for paper, blue for containers per Solid Waste Authority of Palm Beach County standards), and yard waste weekly. Collection schedules vary by neighborhood. Containers must be placed at curb after 6 PM the day before pickup and removed by 7 PM on collection day. Holidays may shift schedules.
Early set-out or late removal: warning then $50 civil citation. Improper materials in recycling: contamination notice. Repeat: up to $250.
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