Recycling is mandatory in Indio. Residents place commingled recyclables in the blue-lid (formerly grey) cart. Businesses with 4+ cubic yards of weekly waste and multi-family complexes of 5+ units must recycle under California AB 341, implemented locally through Burrtec and the city's franchise.
Indio requires recycling for residents and businesses. Residentially, commingled (single-stream) recyclables go in the recycling cart — historically the grey barrel, now standardized to the blue-lid cart. Per the city's guides, accepted recyclables include white and colored paper, newspaper, cardboard (flattened), magazines, junk mail, books, file folders, envelopes, aluminum/steel/tin cans, plastic bottles and containers numbered 1-7, glass bottles and jars, aerosol cans (empty), and cartons. Recyclables 'should be clean, dry and empty,' and must NOT be bagged ('NO bagged recyclables'). Food and liquid waste, food-stained paper, styrofoam, and electronics are not accepted in the recycling cart. Commercially, the city follows California's Mandatory Commercial Recycling law (AB 341): 'State Law requires businesses with four cubic yards or more of waste per week and multi-family complexes with 5 units or more to recycle.' Such facilities may self-haul, arrange separate pickup, or subscribe to the city's franchised hauler. The city offers indoor recycling containers to businesses at little or no cost. Additional recycling carts are free from Burrtec at (760) 340-2113. The city monitors contamination in recycling carts. Note: city recycling mandates layer on top of, and implement, the underlying California AB 341/AB 1826 state laws.
Commercial and multi-family recycling is mandated by AB 341 and implemented via Indio's franchise; non-recycling facilities are contacted to set up service (Burrtec, 760-340-2113). Contaminated recycling carts can affect rates. Failure to provide required recycling service can be enforced under the Indio Municipal Code.
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