Ada County provides curbside single-stream recycling to unincorporated residents: each household gets a 95-gallon recycling cart (blue with an orange lid) collected every other week alongside mandatory trash service under Title 5, Chapter 2. Participation isn't separately mandated, but the cart is part of standard service.
Ada County adopted a single-stream residential recycling program in 2009 as part of its Title 5, Chapter 2 solid-waste system. Under mandatory residential collection (Ada County Code 5-2-4-1), standard service includes one 95-gallon blue trash cart collected weekly and one 95-gallon recycling cart (blue with orange lid) collected every other week. Recyclables are commingled in the single cart. The county publishes accepted-materials guidance through its trash billing program; contamination or placing non-recyclables in the recycling cart can cause loads to be treated as trash. Recycling for residents inside Boise, Meridian, and other cities is handled under those cities' own contracts.
Recycling is delivered under the mandatory collection code; solid-waste code violations are misdemeanors under Ada County Code 5-2-10 (penalty per Idaho Code 18-113).
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Ada County has no ordinance banning backyard composting. Home compost piles are allowed, but they must not become a nuisance, attract rodents or vermin, or c...
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Ada County has no ordinance banning or specifically regulating residential artificial turf. Installation on private property is generally allowed; check drai...
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Ada County does not require any particular landscape plants and does not ban native or xeric plantings. As long as growth is not an overgrown-weed nuisance o...
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Ada County has no ordinance banning rooftop rainwater collection. Under Idaho water law, capturing rain and snowmelt from your own roof for use on your prope...
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Ada County itself sets no residential watering schedule. In the Treasure Valley, outdoor irrigation typically comes from irrigation districts (Nampa-Meridian...
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Ada County declares overgrown weeds and grasses a public nuisance when they create a fire, safety or health hazard, or interfere with neighbors' use of their...
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