Seminole County provides recycling bins and requires recyclables—newspaper, cans, glass, and plastic bottles—to be source-separated and placed loose in the bin, never bagged or co-mingled with garbage or yard trash. Cardboard must be flattened to fit the bin.
Under Chapter 235, franchised haulers must at minimum collect newspapers, steel cans, aluminum cans, plastic bottles, and glass. Residents must place recyclables in a suitable recycling bin at the usual accessible location on scheduled days and may not co-mingle them with yard trash or other solid waste. County guidelines add: don't bag recyclables in plastic; place them loose in the bin; and all recyclables, including flattened cardboard, must fit inside the recycling bin. Taking recyclables from another's property (scavenging) is prohibited.
Co-mingling recyclables with other waste is unlawful under Sec. 235.74; scavenging another resident's recyclables is prohibited under Sec. 235.5. Violations are subject to citation and the Code Enforcement Board.
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