Kennewick residential single-stream recycling is collected weekly by Waste Management (WM Northwest) and accepts paper, cardboard, plastic bottles/cups/jugs/tubs, and aluminum/steel/tin food and beverage cans. Glass is NOT accepted in curbside recycling. Plastic bags are NOT accepted. Materials must be clean and empty. Mandatory subscription to franchised collection under KMC 9.04 covers both garbage and recycling.
Kennewick's residential curbside recycling program runs through Waste Management (WM Northwest) on the same weekly day as garbage. Accepted materials in the recycling cart per WM's published Kennewick guidelines include: paper (mail, envelopes, newspaper, magazines, catalogs, phone books, paperboard boxes such as cereal boxes, and gift wrap without metallic foil); flattened corrugated cardboard; plastic bottles, cups, jugs, and tubs (clean and empty); plastic and paper to-go cups (clean, empty, no colored party cups); and food and beverage cans (clean and empty aluminum, steel, and tin cans and containers with no lids). The most important prohibitions: NO glass (Kennewick curbside does not accept any color of glass - glass goes to a separate drop site or the transfer station); NO plastic bags or film of any kind (they tangle in the sorting equipment - bag-recycling drop bins are available at most grocery stores under WA's product-stewardship plans); NO Styrofoam, no scrap metal, no electronics, no batteries, no needles, no diapers, no food waste, no yard waste. Materials must be loose in the cart, not bagged. Recycling carts use the same cart-placement rules as garbage: wheels toward house, three-foot clearance, at curb by 5:00 a.m. (June-September) or 6:00 a.m. (October-May), set the night before. Mandatory franchised collection under KMC 9.04 applies to recycling service in the same way it applies to garbage - the city's subscription requirement is met by the bundled WM service. Washington's underlying solid-waste-management framework is RCW Chapter 70A.205 (Solid Waste Management - Reduction and Recycling), which sets state policy for recycling minimum service standards.
Cart contamination (placing non-accepted items like glass, plastic bags, or food waste in the recycling cart) can cause WM to refuse the cart or to charge a contamination fee under its published rate schedule, and persistent contamination can lead to cart removal. Recycling that ends up in the wrong place at the curb (loose in the gutter, blown across the neighbor's yard) is addressable under KMC 9.48 nuisance authority. State authority for the recycling-service-level mandate is RCW Chapter 70A.205; failure to subscribe to recycling service through the franchised hauler is enforced the same way as failure to subscribe to garbage - 20-day Compliance Warning Letter, then Notice and Order with a $500 minimum civil penalty under KMC 9.04.
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