Clovis, CA Trash & Recycling: Recycling Requirements (2026)
Key Facts
- Curbside recycling fee
- $2.49 per month
- Containers provided
- 2 City-labeled bins, no initial charge
- Motor oil
- Customer-provided container, set at curbside
- Annual rate adjustment
- +4% every July 1 since 2007
- Commercial track
- Separate contract via authorized agent
Summary
Clovis bills every curbside customer $2.49 a month for recycling and hands out two City-labeled containers at no initial charge, with used motor oil set out separately in a customer-supplied container. Multifamily properties without curbside capability instead carry recyclables to a City-designated centralized collection point under the same program.
Service, fees and charges. Customers shall be provided with recycling services as established by resolution of the City Council by the City's authorized agent upon the terms and conditions as established by said resolution. Each curbside customer shall be charged for the availability of this recyclable service in the amount of two and 49/100ths dollars ($2.49) per month, to be billed at the same time and in the same manner as refuse/garbage service is billed. Each curbside customer shall be provided two (2) City-labeled containers for recyclables at no initial charge, except motor oil is to be placed at curbside in customer-provided containers as instructed.
Full Breakdown
23 defines a curbside customer as a single-family residence or a multifamily or mobile home park residence with curbside capability that the City designates for curbside service; everyone else in a qualifying multifamily development is a centralized customer who carries recyclables to a centralized collection point instead. 49 per month, billed alongside the regular refuse bill, and requires the City to supply two City-labeled recycling containers to each curbside customer at no initial charge, except that motor oil must be set out in a container the customer provides.
If a container needs replacing because of the curbside customer's abuse, damage, destruction, theft, appropriation, or willful neglect, the customer is billed the actual replacement cost plus delivery and administration expenses as the charges are incurred. Under subsection (d), the recycling user rate has been adjusted upward 4% every July 1st since 2007, with City staff directed to reevaluate the refuse fund each year for a possible reduction. 1: they contract for bin recycling service through the City's authorized agent, with bins sized and placed by the agent in the customer's existing bin pad, or elsewhere with City and agent approval if there's no room.
Violations & Fines
A curbside customer who damages, destroys, or willfully neglects a recycling container is billed the actual replacement cost plus delivery and administration expenses under § 6.3.23(b); that charge is separate from the anti-scavenging misdemeanor in § 6.3.23(c). Because the recycling fee is billed with the refuse account, nonpayment triggers the same consequences as unpaid garbage charges under § 6.3.11: the City can discontinue service without further notice once the bill goes delinquent and can sue in civil court to collect what's owed.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Sources & Official References
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