Lenexa, KS Trash & Recycling: Recycling Requirements (2026)
Key Facts
- Volume limit
- Unlimited for residential customers
- Who pays
- Included in basic service charge, not optional
- Minimum residential pickup
- Every two calendar weeks, weekly option offered
- Multifamily
- Hauler must offer unlimited recyclables collection
- Annual hauler report due
- February 1 to the City Manager
- Maximum general penalty
- $2,500 fine, one year jail, or both
Summary
In the City of Lenexa, Kansas, every hauler licensed for residential trash service must provide curbside recycling inside its basic service charge, with no cap on volume, and must collect everything residents set out properly. Recycling cannot be sold as an add-on. Haulers serving multifamily buildings must offer unlimited recycling collection.
Each refuse hauler licensed to provide residential solid waste collection must provide, for each residential customer as a part of its basic service charge and not as an optional service, curbside collection of an unlimited volume of recyclables. All recyclables properly placed for collection by the residential customer shall be collected. ... Each licensed refuse hauler which provides solid waste collection service to multifamily residential customers must offer collection of an unlimited volume of recyclables.
Full Breakdown
Section 2-11-C-1 of the Lenexa City Code puts the recycling duty on the refuse hauler, not on the household. A hauler holding a City refuse hauler license to serve residential customers must provide curbside collection of an unlimited volume of recyclables to each residential customer as part of its basic service charge and not as an optional service. All recyclables properly placed for collection by the residential customer must be collected, so a full bin or an unpaid extra is not a reason to leave material at the curb.
Section 2-11-B-1 ties the services together. Anyone who wants to collect residential solid waste in the City must also collect recyclables and yard waste under Articles 2-11-C and 2-11-F. The hauler also needs whatever license or permit Johnson County requires, and the end of the county license ends the City license.
Multifamily service is written differently. A licensed hauler that serves multifamily residential customers must offer collection of an unlimited volume of recyclables. The base-charge language is aimed at residential customers, while the multifamily rule obliges the hauler to make the service available.
Frequency comes from Section 2-11-B-10: residential recyclables must be picked up at least once every two calendar weeks, and the hauler must offer residents a weekly option. Each hauler reports to the City Manager by February 1 each year, including the total volume of solid waste, recyclables and yard waste, by type, collected in Lenexa (Section 2-11-B-7). The Governing Body's stated purpose in Section 2-11-A-1 is to reduce the volume of solid waste and increase recycling, consistent with the Johnson County Code of Regulations for Solid Waste Management. The old recyclables disposal section, 2-11-C-4, was repealed effective January 1, 2012.
Violations & Fines
Violating any provision of Chapter 2-11 is unlawful under Section 2-11-K-1, and a conviction is a public offense under Section 2-11-L-2 punished under Section 1-1-C-3: a fine of not more than $2,500, up to one year in jail, or both, with each day of a continuing violation counted as a separate offense. The City can also revoke or suspend a hauler's license after at least ten calendar days' written notice and a hearing opportunity before the City Manager.
Frequently Asked Questions
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