Recycling is collected every other week in the 95-gallon blue cart. Cedar Park prohibits plastic bags, Styrofoam, pizza boxes, shredded paper, wet cardboard, and food-soiled items from the recycling stream.
Under the franchise governed by Article 18.10 of the Cedar Park Code, Republic Services provides single-stream recycling collection every other week via the 95-gallon blue cart that is included in the standard $21.42 monthly service rate. Only items placed in the blue cart are recycled; items left outside it count toward the 7-item weekly bulk limit and go to landfill. The City's Trash and Recycling page lists items that are NOT accepted in the recycling cart: shredded paper, wet cardboard, plastic bags or film, Styrofoam, pizza boxes, non-bottle glass, fabric/textiles, yard waste (except during the designated yard-trimmings windows), food scraps, and large metal items. Texas has no statewide curbside recycling mandate and HB 2127 (the 'Death Star' preemption bill, 2023) further limits cities from adopting recycling mandates that exceed state law, so Cedar Park's program operates as a customer service offering rather than a mandatory diversion ordinance.
Heavily contaminated carts may be tagged and skipped by Republic Services. Repeatedly using the recycle cart for trash can result in service warnings; the City has no separate fine schedule for residential recycling contamination, but persistent misuse that creates a nuisance is enforceable under Sec. 1.01.009 (up to $2,000/day for sanitation violations).
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